News & Views - Page 36
Improving patient outcomes through better conversation
Sue Kennard, Head of Employee Wellbeing Service at Barts Health NHS Trust, writes for Hospital Times. Here Sue discusses how…
Bed shortage leaves NHS emergency care in crisis
Nearly 100,000 patients were forced to spend four hours or more on corridor trolleys while beds were found, new performance…
Lord Victor Adebowale announced new Chair of NHS Confederation
Lord Victor Adebowale CBE has been appointed as the new permanent Chair of the NHS Confederation. Lord Adebowale will assume…
Norovirus outbreak closes over one thousand hospital beds in England
An outbreak of Norovirus has caused hospitals in England to shut down more than one thousand beds in the past week. Around one per cent…
Quarter of all NHS hospital staff born outside UK
New figures show that people born outside the UK account for almost a quarter of all staff working in hospitals…
The importance of nutrition to the integrated care debate
Following a Public Policy Projects hosted roundtable in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a new report is published today to better understand the…
Disposable Bronchoscope Available From CMS
Central Medical Supplies (CMS) is the sole UK distributor for the single use endoscope range produced by medical device company…
NHS England to approve two cannabis-based medicine for the first time
Following the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guidelines, NHS England approved the use of two cannabis-based medicine to treat…
NHS records worst-ever A&E performance
320,000 people waited in A&E for more than four hours in October, the worst performance ever recorded since the four-hour…
Labour announce £26 billion NHS election pledge
A £26 billion election NHS funding pledge has today been announced by the Labour Party, in what has been called…