RECENT NEWS

A new service based in West Cumberland Hospital (WCH) Accident & Emergency (A&E) department is working to help people avoid a hospital stay and reduce pressure on health and care services.

Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers – also known as bed sores – on the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust’s inpatient wards are now at an all-time low. In 2010, pressure ulcers were reported at the rate of one nearly every day. Just seven years later, one occurs every two weeks (in 2017 there were just 31 cases reported across the whole 12 months).

President Trump sparked strong reactions following a tweet on 5 February in which he stated the National Health Service ‘isn’t working’.

A report published on 31 January by Picker and The King’s Fund has uncovered striking associations between NHS staff and patients’ experiences in hospitals and NHS trusts’ reliance on agency healthcare workers.

On 31 January 2018 the European Commission put forward a proposal to boost cooperation amongst EU Member States for assessing health technology.

England could be the first country in the world to eliminate Hepatitis C, under ambitious plans announced by the NHS.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have been awarded £875,000 from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to lead a multi-centre, international research project to better understand the cause of brain bleeding (haemorrhaging) in patients who have had a stroke.

The Infection Prevention Society, which represents professionals working in infection prevention and control, is requesting nominations for its annual awards programme.

SafeHeal, an innovator in the field of digestive surgery, has started its first-in-human and CE-mark clinical study of an endoluminal bypass sheath, which it claims has the potential of replacing ostomy.

Patients could find that supplies of their medicines will be disrupted when the UK leaves the EU, according to the Brexit Health Alliance in a briefing paper published today, which is calling on both sides to put patients first.

Patients at The James Cook University Hospital can now undergo hand surgery while they are awake.

The University of Bedfordshire celebrated the opening of its new nursing simulation suite at the Luton campus on Thursday 25 January.

NHS England has announced that three ambulance trusts will share £10 million to help improve patient care by developing into world class digital organisations.

As part of the world’s biggest medical trade fair MEDICA in mid-November 2017 Düsseldorf saw the new umbrella brand for the global healthcare activities of the Messe Düsseldorf Group, the MEDICAlliance, being launched officially.

Patients across Greater London are to be given greater power to inform GPs, hospitals, ambulance crews, 111 providers, care homes, hospices and out of hours services, about their urgent and end of life care wishes, following the launch of a new online urgent care record called ‘myCMC’.

Saturday the 27th of January 2018 marks the first ESRA European Day of Regional Anaesthesia, delivered simultaneously in over 20 training hubs across the continent.

Global medical device company, Arjo, has announced a joint partnership on a tracking system with Sony Mobile Communications.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is expected to call for an additional £100 million a week for the NHS in England after Brexit.

Canon Inc and Canon Medical Systems Corporation have announced the official corporate/trade name change of Canon Group Company Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation to Canon Medical Systems Corporation.

The next phase of the Chesterfield Royal Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) expansion project is now complete and was opened to patients on Monday 15 January.