RECENT NEWS

An annual national survey shows key patient experiences of NHS cancer care improved over the past year.

The Kent Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre based at Kent & Canterbury Hospital has become the first centre in the UK to enrol patients in a new study about haemophilia treatments.

The Government has announced £325 million of capital investment for local projects that will help the NHS to modernise and transform care for patients.

New figures published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) highlight an urgent and growing problem in the paediatric workforce.

The Government has announced new funding of up to £86 million for UK firms to develop medical breakthroughs.

NHS Supply Chain has announced the launch of its 2015/16 Sustainable Development Report.

The UK was rated first out of 11 countries in a report on international healthcare systems published by the Commonwealth Fund.

A team of specialist nurses at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is raising awareness of sepsis.

NHS services are well organised to deliver breast cancer care in line with national clinical guidelines, according to a new audit.

A new report suggests that a more strategic role for ‘traditional’ community hospitals might be timely within the NHS in England.

Warwick SASCo is supplying a number of NHS Trusts with single-use sterile pack components after responding to a nationwide shortage.

Cancer patients at Royal Surrey County Hospital are now receiving individually tailored treatment plans thanks to DNA testing.

The government has announced a UK-wide inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal that left more than 2,000 people dead.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has invested more than £1.8 million in the latest technology to help in the fight against cancer.

Over half of all doctors in training say they work beyond their rostered hours at least weekly, and more than a fifth claim working patterns regularly leave them short of sleep, according to the General Medical Council’s (GMC) national training surveys.

Tracy Taylor has been appointed the new chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new five-year strategy which for the first time brings together all aspects of its work across clinical care, research and education and applies to its NHS and private services, both in the UK and internationally.

Medication, including beta-blockers, may be so effective in reducing the risk of sudden death in heart failure that the overall benefit of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may be uncertain.

A surgeon-led clinic for people with a neck lump and immediate access to CT scans are amongst the new developments at Teesside’s biggest hospital, which could help speed up the diagnosis of head and neck cancers.

Annie Young, Professor of Nursing at the University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is one of six globally-recognised experts in cancer care, launching a new database aimed at reducing hair loss in chemotherapy patients.