RECENT NEWS

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) is calling for the new government to focus on the unsustainable cost of clinical negligence claims and to prioritise proposals for legal reform following the publication of NHS Resolution's (NHSR) Annual report for 2023/24.

NHS England has announced that Duncan Burton has been appointed as Chief Nursing Officer for England. A nurse of more than 25 years, Duncan was most recently Deputy Chief Nursing Officer where he led national work on the maternity and neonatal programme, workforce policies and the children and young people’s transformation programme.

More than 150 budding healthcare professionals have secured NHS employment thanks to a programme which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT).

World-leading diabetes experts at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have opened a groundbreaking trial aiming to reverse the lifetime risks of nerve damage in people living with type 2 diabetes.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) has named its surgical skills training room, where trainee and consultant surgeons can practise their technical skills, after Karl Storz, who played a crucial role in the development of modern endoscopy.

Leading NHS eye health provider SpaMedica has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Jamie Hanson, in the newly-created role of Director of Central Operations.

​Record numbers of people are being diagnosed with dementia in England, NHS figures show. The latest data shows a record 487,432 people in England in June had a diagnosis. While dementia diagnosis rates are the highest since the start of the pandemic at 65.0%, the NHS has more to do to meet its ambition to diagnose 66.7% of the total number of people that estimates suggest are living with a form of the disease.

Clinical support staff are crucial to the NHS but still feel undervalued and ‘invisible’ 10 years after a government-commissioned review highlighted ways to improve working practices, a new report has found.

Plans to boost the UK’s workforce by increasing medical school places will fail if the needs of trainers are not also prioritised, the General Medical Council (GMC) warns in a new report.

Pipeline nitrous oxide should no longer be considered as a means of supplying nitrous oxide in modern anaesthetic practice, according to leading anaesthetic organisations in the UK and Ireland who are calling for nitrous oxide manifolds to be decommissioned.

Mackwell Health, an innovator in solutions for Sustainable Infection Prevention and Control, has announced the appointment of Dan Morgan Smith as Commercial Director.

A new pill to treat advanced hormone sensitive prostate cancer that could benefit just over 40,000 people has been recommended by NICE in final draft guidance.

Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, is implementing a new standardised national paediatric early-warning system across its hospitals to further help clinicians spot and treat a deteriorating child patient quickly and act on concerns.

The Chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, is urging the new UK government and the governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to implement 10 key recommendations following publication of the Inquiry’s report of its first investigation into the nation’s resilience and preparedness for the pandemic.

The latest quarterly NHS data analysis from the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) on how many NHS patients are treated by independent sector providers has found that the sector is now delivering almost one in five of all NHS operations, and in the first five months of 2024 alone have removed almost three quarters of a million people from the NHS waiting list.

Kent-based telehealth company QuestPrehab has signed a contract with the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust to deliver digital prehabilitation (‘prehab’) services to liver patients across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has apologised and promised action after an independent review of its culture highlighted safeguarding concerns, and found that people working in the organisation have experienced racism, discrimination and bullying.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has published a Green Physician Toolkit that brings together the evidence on health and climate change, and suggests actions that physicians can take in their day-to-day practice.

Thousands of patients with multiple sclerosis are to benefit from a new 10-minute injection on the NHS that can help slow the progression of disability while cutting their treatment time in hospital by over 90%.

The UK will become the first country in the world to have a national programme that uses the same vaccine to protect both newborns and older adults against RSV.