Unused prescription medicines cost the NHS £300 million every year – 40% of Brits admit binning unused medications, potentially wasting up to an estimated 445 million prescriptions a year. More than a third (36%) of people admit to taking potentially harmful medications, as a result of not checking their use-by date 4 in 10 people […]
Record number of patients delayed by 12 hours or more as Urgent and Emergency Care faces deepening crisis: The latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for January 2022 show: There were 1,246,817 attendances at major Emergency Departments 16,558 patients were delayed for 12 hours or more from decision to admit to admission This is the […]
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A new FMG course to help health and social care workers understand the many impacts of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been launched by FutureLearn in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen. The course was developed following a University of Aberdeen survey of UK medical schools that suggested graduating medical students felt under-prepared to deal […]
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More than seventy percent of NHS workers considering quitting in last six months, GNB survey reveals. Stress, pay, workload and mental health main reasons GMB Union members cited for wanting to leave health service More than 70 per cent of NHS workers have considered quitting in the past six months, a new GMB survey shows. In a poll of almost 1,000 GMB […]
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Rutherford Health plc, a leading independent provider of advanced cancer care in the UK, today announced it has offered its treatment and diagnostic services to the National Health Service on a not-for-profit basis for the next three years. The offer has been made to help address delays being encountered by cancer patients due to the […]
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People are more likely to attend online GP appointments than in person, review finds: A review published in the journal BJGP Open by researchers from the University of Surrey has shown that patients miss fewer telephone consultation appointments than those which take place in person as they are much more convenient and reduce the risk of […]
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Research reveals ‘ugly truth’ faced by doctors responding to Covid-19 on the frontline: A new study from The University of Bath‘s Jo Daniels and Sophie Harris captures the scale of the challenge faced by healthcare professionals responding to the pandemic. Frontline healthcare workers say they are angry at being treated as ‘Covid cannon fodder, not Covid […]
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Kindness is the best medicine when someone is grieving”, Ken Sazuze says one year after the launch of HWF’s Families Programme: It’s been one year since the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers, launched their Families Programme to support the families of healthcare workers who sadly lost their lives fighting […]
Nearly two thirds of A&Es across the UK had ambulances waiting to transfer patients every day in the past week, according to a new survey from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. The latest RCEM survey covers the period 8 November to 14 November 2021 and was sent to Clinical Leads in Emergency Departments across […]
Commenting on a new report published by the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives into handover delays at hospital emergency departments across England, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation said: “This report confirms the consequences of the intolerable pressure that ambulance services and other parts of the NHS are under. We are clear that […]
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