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Britain’s bed backlog: are ‘at home’ sensors the solution?
Jayne Rooke, Health and Care Sector Lead at WM5G, writes for Hospital Times. The NHS is currently at crisis point…
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust purchases Mistral-Air® Warming Systems from CMS
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) has converted to using the Mistral-Air® Forced Air Warming systems and blankets from Central…
Experts call for renewed focus on patient hygiene to stem tide of healthcare infections
An infection prevention expert panel initiated and funded by medical solution company Mölnlycke have called for a renewed focus on…
Can AI in healthcare meet the expectations?
The NHS recently pledged £36 million for new AI projects to help revolutionise healthcare but the extent to which this…
NHS waiting times rising by 25 per cent annually, new analysis shows
Although the number of patients waiting 18 months or more for treatment has declined slightly, analysis shows that the overall…
BEAMS video launched to help hospital staff respond to all bedside alarms quickly
With staff shortages and the number of single-bed patient rooms on the rise, BEAMS remote monitoring responds to the problem…
First-of-its-kind treatment for ovarian cancer patients hailed as landmark success
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (NNUH) are marking the successful establishment of the UK’s only gynae-oncology programme administering heated chemotherapy…
GMC launches new hub to challenge racism and discrimination in healthcare
After a survey finds racial discrimination is regularly experienced by healthcare staff, a new resource to support doctors facing racism…
Novel AI solution could help ease hospital diagnostic pressures
Pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) solution which automatically diagnoses lung diseases – such as tuberculosis and pneumonia – could ease winter…
New antipsychotic blood test reduces wait for results from ten days to six minutes
ReStart and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) have joined forces to pioneer a new antipsychotic blood testing process…