RHS Chelsea Flower Show: Autumn 2021
The Chelsea Flower Show is back this week celebrating the glory of autumn for the first time in its 108 year history: Rebecca Wallersteiner takes...
NHS
The NHS category focuses on the people, policies and challenges shaping the UK’s publicly funded health service. It offers thoughtful analysis of organisational change, workforce issues, funding and performance, along with debate on how to improve care delivery and health outcomes. From insights into frontline practice to discussion of strategic priorities and reforms, this category brings clarity to the complex forces influencing the future of health and care in the NHS.
Hope of tackling health inequalities
Hope of tackling health inequalities relies on action across government: Commenting on the letter sent to the Prime Minister from the Inequalities in Health Alliance...
New NHS approach for people with eye disease
Clinical trial provides new approach for people with eye disease to increase NHS capacity: A UK-wide study, led by Queen's University Belfast, has shown how a new surveillance pathway for people with stable diabetic eye disease is safe and cost-saving, freeing up ophthalmologists to evaluate and...
Ambulances: Increased handover delays threatening patient safety
A new snapshot survey by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has found that in August 2021 half of respondents stated that their Emergency Department...
Student nurse aiming to follow in the footsteps of her heroes
A student nurse has praised the 'superhero' nurses she worked alongside at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Delaying reforms will only hold NHS back from addressing challenges
Delaying reforms will only hold NHS back from addressing challenges: Responding to the Centre for Policy Studies' report 'Is Manchester Greater?', Louise Patten of the...
IBMS statement on blood tube shortage
IBMS statement on blood tube shortage: The UK's pathology services are experiencing major disruptions to their supplies of blood test tubes due to the 'just...
Improving outcomes for critically ill children on ventilation
Major UK trial greatly improves outcomes for critically ill children on mechanical ventilation: A major UK clinical trial led by Queen's University Belfast has shown how...
Messenger apps and patient confidentiality
Messenger apps and patient confidentiality – what every healthcare professional should know: Three years after GDPR rules were launched, many healthcare professionals are still failing to comply...
A&E performance show NHS ‘near boiling point’
Responding to the latest set of performance figures released by NHS England for July 2021, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine...
