RECENT NEWS

Recent figures show that NHS England experienced an absence rate of 5.6 percent in 2022, the equivalent of losing nearly 75,000 staff to illness. Burnout is reported to be a major contributing factor. With this in mind, a new report has called for a new approach to tackle high levels of burnout among healthcare workers.

The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) – the UK's leading Trade Association for HealthTech – has announced the launch of its first-ever UK Pavilion at the rapidly growing Global Health Exhibition in Saudi Arabia.

Bristol-based deep tech ecosystem, Science Creates, has launched an engineering biology accelerator programme to support life science start-ups and innovators in developing ground-breaking advancements in healthcare, the environment, and quality of life.

Loneliness is a bigger risk factor for heart disease in patients with diabetes than diet, exercise, smoking and depression, according to research published in European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

The Government has made regulations (The Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023) that enable CE marked medical devices to be accepted in Great Britain for defined periods beyond 30 June 2023.

NICE’s diagnostic advisory committee has recommended the use of the HM-JACKarc or OC-Sensor quantitative faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) in draft guidance released for consultation.

A new non-clinical team has been introduced to support patients and staff at Guy’s and St Thomas’. The patient and staff enhancers, known as PASE, are on hand to do everything from making beds to making cups of tea. The team work in a variety of clinical areas including inpatient wards and outpatient clinics, helping to improve quality of care, and patient and staff experience.

The hospital at home service, or 'virtual wards', will be expanded to cover children in every region of England from this month after successfully treating more than 6,400 children over the last year.

A study has found that an innovative fibre-optic electronic device can play a key role in reducing incidents of nasogastric (NG) tube misplacement - the fourth most common cause of never events in hospitals in England, according to new data released this month by the NHS.

Cherwell has published findings of a new impartial investigation into the impact of using pre-poured Petri dishes from different suppliers for air sampling in cleanroom environmental monitoring (EM) programmes.

The Health and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay, convened ministers, clinical leaders and health experts at the NHS Recovery Summit, with the aim of driving forward plans to cut waiting lists and improve care for patients.

The Clinical Services Journal is delighted to announce a free to attend educational webinar, sponsored by 3M, on 'Reducing the risk of surgical site infections - the role of antimicrobial incise drapes'.

The biggest ever EBME Expo took place across two days (28th-29th June) this week, attracting high numbers of clinical engineers and other healthcare professionals, to discuss key issues relating to EBME (clinical engineering), operating theatres, and procurement. The event has gone from strength-to-strength and, in recent years, has moved to the larger venue of the Coventry Building Society Arena.

​To digitally transform the NHS and ensure its long-term sustainability, the Government has mandated that all trusts across England should adopt barcode scanning of high-risk medical devices by March 2024.

Future Surgery, in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, has announced that registration is now open for the highly anticipated 2023 Future Surgery event.

The Government has announced that the number of places in medical schools will rise from 7,500 to 10,000 by 2028 and could reach 15,000 by 2031 as a result of the NHS’s first long-term workforce plan.

Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body’s immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measureable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species of bacteria.

The NIHR has awarded more than £96 million to 93 NHS organisations across England. The funding will pay for new research equipment and technology. Around £20 million is going to smaller, regional NHS Trusts.

Leading scientists at the independent Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) have confirmed that albumin, a critically important medicine for the NHS, can now be safely derived from UK plasma donors.

New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), and supported by NIHR Maudsley BRC, has found that community mental health patients who were prescribed antidepressants were significantly less likely to test positive for COVID-19 when admitted to inpatient care.