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“A crisis years in the making”: NCF responds to Health Secretary’s announcement
The National Care Forum issues five recommendations to the government following Health Secretary, Steve Barclay’s announcement on funding to speed…
Vital psychological support service for NHS staff receives major boost
Barts Charity has awarded a grant of £ to Barts Health NHS Trust to fund a further three years of…
Independent sector provides solution for additional challenges to winter pressures
As NHS winter pressures set in, Professor Matthew Cooke explains how insourced teams can enable existing teams and resources to…
Improving health outcomes through value-based care
As value-based care gains currency, Tim Morris, VP Go-To-Market at Elsevier Clinical Solutions, writes for Hospital Times about how this…
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…
Healthcare professionals call for urgent action to address NHS surgical backlog crisis
Urgent changes are needed to address the elective care backlog, according to recommendations from healthcare professionals in a report released…
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…