RECENT NEWS

Best practice guidance for the effective documentation of five common surgical procedures is now available, to help improve the investigation of episodes of care if they lead to patient safety incidents or NHS litigation claims.

Doctors experiencing burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents and four times more likely to be dissatisfied with their job, new research suggests.

Following the findings of poliovirus in sewage samples collected from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works, which covers parts of North and East London, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) working with the Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are now expanding the surveillance to a range of areas outside of the capital.

Hundreds of people with recurrent bacterial infections could be treated with gut bacteria taken from healthy donors. NICE has recommended a faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) is offered to people who have been treated for two or more Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections without success.

A team of researchers have produced a landmark rapid review of systems leadership in healthcare, concluding that the NHS must better define what it needs from its leaders to address emerging challenges and policy changes.

The UK public wants a better, adequately staffed health service backed by more funding — not a departure from the NHS model, a major new report has warned.

The number of pregnancies affected by life-threatening issues such as spina bifida could fall by more than a fifth as the government moves one step closer to actively adding folic acid to non-wholemeal flour.

Research published in the Future of Healthcare Journal shows that models developed by UK healthtech start-up Gendius can determine which patients with type 2 diabetes are most likely to have renal impairment, allowing healthcare systems to prioritise the highest risk patients for earlier screening.

The innovation centre will explore the role of AI in detecting abnormalities for musculoskeletal, chest, neuro and infectious conditions.

Vivo Surgical, a pioneering medical device company based in Singapore, has become the first start-up to win the prestigious WIPO-IPOS IP for Innovation Award for 2022.

Cardiologists at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) are now able to carry out additional specialist tests to help diagnose heart problems following the introduction of new charity-funded equipment.

A new national centre of excellence to strengthen NHS cancer services by looking at treatments and patient outcomes right across the country will be established at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England).

High tech goggles will be worn by community nurses on home visits to free up time with patients, as part of a cutting-edge NHS pilot.

Over 50 new surgical hubs will open across the country to help tackle the COVID-19 backlogs and offer hundreds of thousands more patients quicker access to vital procedures, the Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay has announced.

Seven new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) will open to help bust the COVID backlogs, diagnose patients more quickly and meet future demands on the NHS, the Health and Social Care Secretary has confirmed.

Taking place at the University of York and virtually from 8-11 September, the AfPP Annual Conference 2022 is set to be one of the largest gatherings of theatre practitioners in the professional (and social) calendar.

Surgical Holdings will be exhibiting at the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) Annual Conference 2022 to raise awareness of their accredited training programme which highlights how to test the quality of rigid endoscopes, identify faults and ensure patient safety.

The Journal of Nature / Scientific Reports has published a paper from the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto reporting that nasal antimicrobial photodynamic disinfection therapy (aPDT) effectively inactivated SARS-CoV-2 in the nose of patients with COVID-19.

A leading sepsis charity and a groundbreaking research project are marking the start of Sepsis Awareness Month (1 September 2022) by announcing a new pilot study which will provide invaluable data needed to improve treatments for sepsis patients.

Medicines used to treat serious and long term conditions are not being prescribed as often as they should be expected following the pandemic, raising fears that this could be causing avoidable deaths from heart disease and strokes.