RECENT NEWS

Patients living with a poorly understood chronic voice disorder which causes involuntary muscle spasms, impairing speech and swallowing, can now receive treatment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The majority of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) are failing to take into account the needs of infants, children and young people, according to a review undertaken by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).

England’s chief inspector of hospitals has rated the services provided by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as ‘good’ following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in February.

Dr Martin Easter has been appointed chief scientific officer for Hygiena International.

A specialist physiotherapist at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals has taken up a new role as a Research Fellow to complement the Trust’s clinical research activities and to help develop the next generation of researchers.

Sir Hugh Taylor has been appointed as the new chair of the Health Foundation.

Almost 80% of members of the Royal College of Nursing have voted to pursue a ballot for UK-wide strike action this summer.

Scientists have published ground-breaking scans of newborn babies’ brains which researchers from all over the world can download and use to study how the human brain develops.

NHS England says hospitals are now returning to normal following last Friday's (12 May 2017) cyber attack, which saw almost 50 Trusts targeted.

NHS Providers has called on politicians to address rapidly growing concerns over the NHS workforce in the general election campaign.

Poverty and low income is seriously affecting the health of UK children according to paediatricians – and any new Government must tackle health inequalities or risk storing up health problems for future generations.

A speacialist NHS centre helping to transform future care for rare disease and cancer patients through the sequencing of a whole genome – or the full blueprint of a person’s DNA – has recruited its 1,000th participant just 16 months after becoming operational.

More than 50% of British people visiting hospitals do not understand how to clean their hands properly, according to a recent YouGov poll.

Gill Walton has been appointed as the next chief executive and general secretary of The Royal College of Midwives (RCM).

BMI Healthcare, the UK's largest independent healthcare provider, has announced the appointment of Richard Gregory to the role of director of market engagement.

Waiting times for many NHS urgent and emergency services in England were at their worst in 2016/17 for the last five years, but there is so far little evidence that the quality of care for some of the big killers – like heart attack, stroke and cancer – is deteriorating.

The Health Foundation has called for increased investment in the NHS to halt planned reductions in spending per person over the next two years, in what will be the toughest decade of funding growth in NHS history.

A study looking into weight loss in patients with incurable lung cancer has started at Royal Surrey County Hospital.

A study led by Keele University, in collaboration with the Universities of Aberdeen and Manchester, shows that men and women suffering from heart failure have a higher risk of death than people with most common types of cancer.

A healthcare project which has seen on-the-day operation cancellations cut by 60% at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has been recognised.