RECENT NEWS

NHS Digital has reported that 1.19m women aged 45 and over were screened for breast cancer in 2020-21, a 44.1% decrease on 2019-20 (2.12m).

An amendment to the Health and Care Bill that seeks to improve workforce planning has been voted through by the House of Lords.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is warning that a combination of a rapidly ageing population and a lack of NHS workforce planning means we are sleepwalking into an avoidable crisis of care for older people.

Thousands of new NHS 'reservists' are to be recruited to support the health service as staff tackle COVID-19 backlogs.

Medical Protection Society (MPS) has launched the MPS Foundation; a new, global, not-for-profit research initiative to help shape the future of patient safety through the funding of ambitious research.

Careology and Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, operating 37 hospitals and 114 fitness and wellbeing centres across the UK, have partnered in a pilot to provide patients undergoing cancer treatment with support through digital cancer care technology.

2. Braun Medical has further cemented its relationship with the next generation of surgeons by becoming a main supporter of the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) annual conference for the third consecutive year.

Four new diagnostic devices for men with suspected prostate cancer, which reduce the chances of biopsy related sepsis, have been recommended for use by NICE.

According to new YouGov research, for Sodexo Healthcare, 93% of inpatients believe they are more likely to get better quicker and leave hospital sooner if they have had a positive hospital experience.

A new survey, commissioned by NordLocker, found that 56% of employees in the healthcare sector haven’t had cybersecurity training by their current employer. The same survey revealed that 76% of healthcare professionals handle confidential data at work.

Patients treated for Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) face a five-year recurrence rate of 40%, markedly higher than the recurrence rates for melanoma and other skin cancers, a study has found.

Medovate will be joining the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) US Accelerator 2022 cohort.

A quick and cheap blood test could help doctors to spot people at high risk of death following a suspected heart attack, according to research funded by the British Heart Foundation.

A new report, from the Health Foundation, calls for the Government to take stronger action to tackle the leading risk factors for ill health, following years of "slow, uneven and disjointed policy making".

A new Maternity Disparities Taskforce will tackle disparities in maternity care experienced by women from ethnic minority groups and those living in deprived areas.

Results of a clinical study published in the British Medical Journal demonstrate that IBEX Trueview software can accurately predict fracture risk from standard DR scans – paving the way for advances in osteoporosis detection.

New guidelines have been published to increase the safety of regional anaesthesia.

For patients with rheumatic arthritis and other chronic inflammatory diseases, discontinuing biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) prior to orthopaedic surgery does not appear to increase the risk of surgical site infections.

Rapidly growing waiting times for health services on top of the disproportionate burden on their mental health, wrought by the pandemic, risks leaving a generation of children and young people behind.

The RCP and the Getting It Right First Time programme (GIRFT) have published a statement which sets out how best to support patients who present with emergency and urgent medical care needs.