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An independent review of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) has been launched by the Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting to consider how these roles are deployed across the health system, in order to ensure that patients get the highest standards of care.

The biggest changes in decades, affecting the decontamination sector, will be revealed and explored at this year’s IDSc annual conference – from the latest plans for registration to a new competency framework. Patient safety, innovation and education will all be at the forefront.

Barts Life Sciences, a partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London, has partnered with Waltham Forest College to launch a new Health and Life Sciences Hub, designed to expand education, skills and career opportunities across North East London.

UK HealthTech companies aiming to break into the US market are encouraged to apply now for the ABHI US Accelerator 2025. With limited spaces and high demand, this programme offers a gateway into the world’s largest healthcare market, giving UK medical device, diagnostic and digital health companies the support and connections they need to scale their businesses in the United States.

The biggest ever national conversation about the future of the NHS has taken to the road, with Middlesbrough hosting the first of a series of public debates about how to fix the health service.

A new report published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has revealed the true scale and impact of the UK’s gynaecology care crisis, with over three quarters of a million (763,694) currently waiting for months and years with serious gynaecological conditions.

The number of people being admitted to hospital following a stroke has risen by 28% in the last 20 years, new NHS analysis has found.

New legislation being introduced by the Government will require millers and flour producers to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid from the end of 2026.

BioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, has announced its first Data & IT Centre of Reference partnership with St James's Hospital, Ireland. This landmark collaboration was celebrated with a hybrid event held at the Davis Coakley Lecture Theatre, St James's Hospital, Dublin on 14th November, marking a historic milestone for bioMérieux.

A funding boost of more than £78 million will help UCL scientists working to develop a potential treatment for motor neurone disease, for which there is currently no cure and which affects 5,000 people each year in the UK.

People living in areas with higher levels of air pollution are more likely to have eczema, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, by Dr. Jeffrey Cohen of Yale School of Medicine, in the US.

Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue experts in The BMJ.

Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US, published by The BMJ.

Working days lost to long Covid could be costing the economy billions of pounds every year as patients struggle to cope with symptoms and return to work, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

More than 5,000 people in England have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier since the roll out of the NHS Targeted Lung Health Check Programme.

​Thousands of lives could be saved thanks to the roll-out of an improved anti-smoking pill on the NHS in England. Varenicline has been shown to work as well as vapes to help people stop smoking and be a more effective aid than nicotine-replacement gum or patches.

​The NHS is set to revolutionise access to cancer screening for women in a major drive to boost uptake and save thousands of lives.

Cathy Harrison, an advanced nurse practitioner at the Sheffield Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, based at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been named the Nursing Times’ Nurse of the Year.

The total number of adults living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the world has surpassed 800 million - over four times the total number in 1990, according to findings from a global analysis published in The Lancet.

NHS league tables will be introduced to help tackle the NHS crisis and ensure there are ‘no more rewards for failure’, as part of a tough package of reforms announced by the Health and Social Care Secretary.