Join us at Manchester Central on 10-11 October 2023 for Healthcare Estates, the annual event for healthcare engineering and estates and facilities professionals.
Registration, and more details about the event including the full Conference Programme and Exhibitor List can be found at: www.healthcare-estates.com
Overview
21/08/2015 - 09:35
NHS England has announced that it will keep Grimsby GP practice with from closing, despite its latest CQC inadequate rating.
18/08/2015 - 12:18
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has called for a cut back on unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics to help tackle the rise in antibiotic resistance.
17/08/2015 - 12:18
Diabetes UK has warned that the number of diabetes cases in the UK has risen by 60 per cent over the last decade, putting added pressure on the NHS.
14/08/2015 - 11:14
Patients should be allowed to register with any CCG in the country and GP practice boundaries should be disposed of, according to a new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank.
13/08/2015 - 12:27
The number of prescriptions for diabetes drugs has risen by 75 per cent over the last decade and now account for approximately ten per cent of the NHS primary care prescribing bill.
12/08/2015 - 13:15
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a pilot project to analyse how integrated health and care services are in local areas.
11/08/2015 - 12:33
The College of Paramedics (COP) has said that the NHS is becoming increasingly reliant on private ambulances to cope with rising demand.
11/08/2015 - 10:34
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), which provides medical indemnity to healthcare workers, has said that 2014 saw a record number of claims made against healthcare professionals.
10/08/2015 - 12:21
An £18 million fund for medical innovation has been launched by the Medical Research Centre (MRC) and Innovate UK to support companies and universities to develop new technology to tackle major health problems.
10/08/2015 - 12:18
GPs and pharmacists have been invited to register for a series of webinars to explain more about the £15 million ‘clinical pharmacists in general practice’ pilot scheme.
06/08/2015 - 12:09
A new report published by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) has called for radical changes to the regulatory framework for health and social care, claiming it is out of date, over complicated and too expensive.
04/08/2015 - 12:45
A number of hospitals and health trusts in England have been told by Monitor to examine their financial plans, which have been deemed ‘unaffordable’.
03/08/2015 - 12:45
The government will invest £143 million to improve children’s mental health services in England, which is a reduction from the £250 million that was expected.
03/08/2015 - 12:20
A new private hospital is to become the first in the UK to offer proton beam therapy for cancer patients.
29/07/2015 - 16:40
New draft guidelines have been released by NHS England, the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services that are designed to improve the care of people with learning disabilities and shift services away from hospital care towards community settings.
29/07/2015 - 12:21
New draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) outlines that decisions on end of life care should be made by a team of doctors and that patients should be given more support.
29/07/2015 - 12:14
The increasing workload for GPs in Britain could put patients at risk through misdiagnosis or wrong prescriptions, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned.
28/07/2015 - 13:06
Labour leadership candidate and Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has responded to the recent petition calling for a vote of no-confidence in Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt by saying he will push for the debate to take place.
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