NHS Confederation responds to Sunak’s new year speech: Responding to Prime Minster Rishi Sunak’s new year speech, Matthew Taylor chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “NHS leaders are telling us daily that the pressures their staff are facing are becoming truly unbearable so they will be questioning whether the Prime Minister and his government, […]
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Mentally unwell people being forced out of workforce: Six in 10 people who are economically inactive because of long-term illness are living with a mental health problem, researchers found. The revelation suggests that a rise in mental health problems across the country is a key contributor to the shrinking UK’s labour market, where 2.5 million […]
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NHS winter crisis won’t be solved by pharmacies: Pharmacists pour cold water on ‘Government plans to use them during NHS strikes’. Steve Anderson, group managing director PHOENIX UK, which supports over 4,000 pharmacies in England – one in three of all pharmacies – through its Numark business, responds to the news that the Government has […]
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NHS Prostate Cancer Treatments Surge in England: The number of men having treatment for prostate cancer has jumped by more than a quarter in England in one year, new NHS figures show today. Almost 4,000 men received prostate cancer treatment in August (3,898) compared to just over 3,000 in the same month last year (3,057). […]
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Dentists call for deeds not words, as Tory leadership candidates pledge to fix dental crisis. The British Dental Association has stressed that the next PM must commit to urgent reform in NHS dentistry, following commitments from both campaigns to prioritise action on the crisis. Rishi Sunak has today committed to “restore” NHS dentistry by ringfencing […]
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Burnout of the nursing profession following the COVID-19 pandemic is continually highlighted throughout research studies. According to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the number of sick days taken by nurses in England are up almost a fifth on pre-pandemic levels, with a survey completed six months into the global pandemic identifying that 76% of […]
Webinar on community rheumatology: Spotlight on community rheumatology: experts debate the urgent need for reform in the UK. Under pressure rheumatology departments, a shortage of staff and the role community services can play in leading initial assessments and early treatment, will all be debated in the eagerly-anticipated ‘Community rheumatology services – now essential for 2022/23’ Connect Health […]
Thousands of pancreatic cancer patients will be entitled to a free continuous glucose monitoring machine on repeat prescription for the first time ever thanks to new NICE guidelines – but most people still don’t realise they’re entitled to one. National charity Pancreatic Cancer Action wants to empower diabetes 3C sufferers this Diabetes Week (13th – […]
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Modest, marginal tweaks are coming to NHS dentistry, not needed reform: The British Dental Association has responded to comments from Minister Maria Caulfield MP in the House of Commons today, suggesting that announcements on reform of the failed NHS dental system will be made this side of Parliament’s summer recess. The BDA anticipate only modest, marginal […]
NHS dentists blast orders to return to virtually ‘business as usual’: The British Dental Association has slammed moves by government to effectively return to normal working arrangements for NHS dentists in England. The move comes with no meaningful changes to the pandemic restrictions dental teams work to and with infection rates now at an all-time […]
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