Patients and the public must continue to seek medical help for serious conditions during this COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Jackie Taylor, the President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, has joined with other health leaders from across the UK to call on the public to continue to seek appropriate medical help during […]
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A new virtual consultation service – www.doctorinthehouse.net – launched today to provide a free, safe healthcare service that links worried patients to at-home healthcare professionals. The aim is to ease the pressure on the NHS during the COVID-19 outbreak; and to give patients first-hand consultations during the lock-down. This service can scale-up at speed to […]
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Siobhan Miller, founder of ThePositive Birth Company, comments on the NHS suspending home births in some areas of the country: “The coronavirus is already causing a huge amount of anxiety and concern especially amongst pregnant women. Not only are they in the high-risk category, their antenatal and postnatal classes, groups and clinics have been cancelled, […]
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A major survey of medical record keeping in the NHS has revealed critical deficiencies that could risk patients’ safety. Researchers at the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at Imperial College London, found NHS Trusts were using at least 21 different electronic medical record systems which are unable to effectively share information. Almost four million […]
Health leaders across England have urged the incoming Government to address the critical issues that will improve and transform services for patients as they warn that a lack of staffing and failure to address the pensions crisis is putting care at risk. In a survey carried out by the NHS Confederation ahead of the General […]
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First Year medical students will get more experience of ‘real life’ healthcare situations than ever before as part of new measures by the University of Aberdeen to tackle the GP crisis. Students will have the opportunity to attend real calls with out of hours doctors, work alongside GPs in practices and visit and speak with […]
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Responding to the latest report from the Medical Protection Society on burnout among doctors, Sue Covill, director of development and employment at NHS Employers, said: “We know our staff undertake heroic work on a daily basis, but we must remember they are human, too. The findings and recommendations of the report highlight the challenging conditions […]
Pancreatic Cancer Action joined a number of charities, NHS cancer programme representatives, Cally Palmer (National cancer director) and Steve Brine (MP for Cancer) to discuss the recently released NHS long term plan. This is an ambitious ten-year plan, backed by five-year funding, with a big focus on cancer. Everyone in the room acknowledged that the […]
New blood tests for TB could accelerate diagnosis and save the NHS money, according to new research. Rapid blood tests used by the NHS are unable to rule out tuberculosis (TB) and should be replaced with a new, more accurate test, a study has found. In the largest study to date of rapid TB tests […]
Urine is arguably the most common diagnostic tool in routine medicine, with around 65m collected for tests every year. Given its importance in pinpointing infection and therefore targeted prescribing, a protocol for its collection would make sense, not least because untreated Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is not only a significant driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) […]
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