This week’s NHS new round-up features reports that a new “transformative” HIV prevention pill is to be offered by the NHS following a High Court battle. Elsewhere, the British man who helped stall the cyber attack on the NHS has been arrested Read More
Plans to divert NHS patients from A&E to be reviewed
This week’s NHS new round-up features reports that a national review has been launched into schemes which look to divert NHS patients away from A&E departments. Elsewhere there has been a huge debate about antibiotics this week following a paper released by Read More
NHS: Calls for homeopathy medicine to be banned
This week’s NHS new round-up features a developing story which could see the removal of homeopathy from hospitals. Elsewhere there have been calls for hospitals to bring in more then double the number of consultants on duty in A&E to ensure that Read More
NHS News Round-Up: Social Media becoming an issue?
Our NHS News Round-Up this week starts with growing concerns regarding the use of social media by doctors and nurses around the country. It has been reported that NHS employees are using services such as WhatsApp and Snapchat to share sensitive information Read More
NHS News Round-Up: 38 hospitals ‘as dangerous as Grenfell Tower’
Welcome to your weekly NHS news round-up – where we collect the most important news regarding the National Health Service and put it all in once place for you. This week’s NHS news includes: 38 hospitals are ‘as dangerous as Grenfell Tower’ Read More
NHS News Round-Up: Costs of negligence claims set to double by 2023
According to a study by the Medical Protection Society (MPS) the annual cost to the NHS in England of settling clinical negligence claims is set to double by 2023.
Junior doctors strike for a better NHS
Junior doctors strike For the first time since 1975, there is a junior doctors strike happening in the UK. Thousands of doctors around the UK began a 24 hour walk-out yesterday, causing disturbance in many hospitals. Doctors went on strike from 8am Read More
Hospitals are turning into care homes
Hospitals turning into care homes With the NHS facing it’s ‘worst winter’ yet, there seems to be no let up on the pressure hospitals are facing, with huge numbers of patients bed-blocking. Read more from the Telegraph. These patients generally have no where else to go Read More
Winter deaths hit 15-Year high
Winter deaths last year There are growing concerns that winter deaths are at a high, and may even continue to rise this year. It’s been reported by The Telegraph, that last winter saw the highest number of deaths since the turn of Read More
Costs of elderly care: pensioners lose out
Unfortunately, ministers have recently admitted that there will be hundreds of thousands of pensioners who will lose money due to care costs. It’s as a result of the Conservatives delay to cap care prices. Over 100,000 affected The state was due to Read More