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Temporary Minor Injuries Unit created at NHS Lothian
Vanguard has created a temporary Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) at one of Scotland’s busiest hospitals. The creation of a temporary Minor…
Budget 2020: Key takeaways for health spending
Only two weeks after his appointment, new Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP had plenty of ground to cover in his first…
NHS set to ramp up COVID-19 testing
The NHS and Public Health England (PHE) are planning to significantly increase the number of daily coronavirus testing to 10,000.…
Lincolnshire Hospitals look to slash carbon emissions and save millions
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is embarking upon a trio of major energy-saving projects across its main hospital sites. The…
New campaign launched to end corridor care for thousands of patients
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has today launched a new campaign to end corridor care and improve emergency departments…
Morecambe Bay begins work on multimillion-pound operating theatre
A £ million state of the art modular operating theatre is being built at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), a…
Stark concerns raised about prisoners access to healthcare services
Four in ten prison hospital appointments are cancelled or missed, with prisoners receiving around a quarter less hospital care than…
Civility must survive for NHS to thrive
David Liddle, CEO of conflict resolution company the TCM Group, writes for Hospital Times. Here David discusses why the NHS…
UK life expectancy growth stalls as health inequality widens
For the first time since 1900, life expectancy has failed to increase in the UK in a decade, for the…
Free of charge scalp cooling offered to young cancer patients
Pioneering scalp cooling treatment, which stops hair loss during chemotherapy, could be offered for free to youth cancer patients. This…