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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…
Reflecting the community we serve
Diversity and equality are principles that should permeate throughout every hospital trust, writes Aloma Onyemah, Head of Equality, Diversity and…
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…
The data elephant in the room
Oliver McQuitty, CEO of Visualizar, writes for Hospital Times. Here Oliver discusses the obstacles the NHS is facing in implementing…
NHS surgeons become pioneers in robotic surgery
Surgeons from two NHS trusts have become the first clinicians in Europe to use state of the art robotically assisted…
Striving for a culture of diversity
Ahead of the publication of the eagerly anticipated NHS People Plan, new data continues to highlight what still needs to…
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…