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2022 24 Mar
The BMJ and the Nuffield Trust recently hosted a roundtable discussion concerning the issue of workforce retention in the UK’s NHS – why workers leave the NHS and how staff wellbeing and retention can be improved. Also under discussion was the Nuffield Trust report, ‘The Long Goodbye’ which provided statistics on the alarming high portion of healthcare...Read more
2022 14 Mar
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is trialling a programme designed to identify and eradicate algorithmic biases in systems used to administer healthcare. The NHS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Lab commissioned the Ada Lovelace Institute to develop an Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) tool. This tool is intended to provide an algorithmic accountability...Read more
2021 08 Oct
Stroke is not a risk for older people exclusively. Across all types of stroke, we need to remember that a quarter of them occur in people under 65. 1 We know the combination of a decrease in deaths from stroke and an increase in actual stroke events means more people will survive and live with the impact of stroke. The burden of stroke is likely...Read more
2021 14 Sep
Diagnostic centres now face an unprecedented demand for their services due to an ageing global population and a greater variety of available diagnostic tests. To meet this demand, centres have turned to value partnerships with technology providers to strengthen their reorganisation and consolidation strategies. One strategy, consolidating into...Read more
2021 26 Jul
A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) solution that works alongside radiologists to improve breast cancer detection, avoid unnecessary biopsies and ultimately improve the patient experience for women, is being launched in Qatar. Mia or Mammography Intelligent Assessment, is designed to support breast radiologists in making the critical...Read more
2021 06 May
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on women working in health and social care in the UK, a newly released report from the NHS Confederation’s Health and Care Women Leaders Network has revealed. The report outlines the results of a survey of more than 800 health and care workers in England who identified as female. The survey,...Read more
2021 22 Mar
Researchers from the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust (BSUH) presented results from a study on “ Time from Surgery to Post-operative Radiotherapy ” at the Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) from 17 to 19 March 2021. Survival rates are significantly worse for patients with head and...Read more
2021 04 Feb
Watford General Hospital, part of the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, has refurbished two existing X-ray rooms in its emergency department with Agfa’s ceiling-suspended DR 600 solutions , and implemented a mobile DR 100s unit to provide imaging in A&E. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, the three Agfa solutions were successfully implemented in...Read more
2021 12 Jan
Durkin Will Serve Alongside Chairman Dr. Michael A.E. Ramsay to Help Organization Achieve Goal of Zero Preventable Deaths from Medical Errors by 2030 The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) , a global non-profit on a mission to achieve zero preventable patient deaths by 2030, has appointed Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSc to serve...Read more
2020 29 Aug
COVID-19 has ignited the need for data-driven decision making, personalised healthcare and digital delivery. How can the NHS become a customer-focused organisation and reimagine healthcare to meet evolving priorities? Key Points To deliver world-leading health outcomes, the NHS needs to get comfortable with new concepts of healthcare...Read more
2020 06 Jul
A new on-demand recovery service being launched by the U.K. National Health System (NHS) will help those suffering post-coronavirus effects. The patients would be able to contact health professionals either online or by phone. You might also like: Providing Alternative Outpatient Delivery Channels Called ‘Your...Read more
2020 06 Apr
In the UK, the world’s largest clinical trial of potential coronavirus treatments, the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy trial ( RECOVERY ), is underway. It is aimed at assessing the effects of different treatments, including repurposed and novel drugs, on major outcomes in COVID-19. You may also like : COVID-19 Will Revolutionise...Read more
2020 01 Apr
Airline staff are amongst thousands of personnel to man a new field hospital which opened in East London today for COVID-19 patients. NHS Nightingale, housed in the Excel conference centre, opened its doors to 500 COVID-19 patients with the capacity to increase to 4,000 beds fitted with oxygen and ventilators. The centre will care...Read more
2020 10 Mar
The NHS has an ongoing campaign to phase out the use of legacy systems, such as pagers and fax machines, across the entire health service. As a result, NHS staff have turned to using consumer messaging software such as WhatsApp even at the workplace. It's therefore become unavoidable that sensitive clinical information is communicated...Read more
2020 27 Feb
Patient safety data across the UK public (National Health System, NHS) and private healthcare sectors to be gathered in a single online database. Two organisations, NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) have opened a consultation on the database as part of the next phase of the Acute Data Alignment Programme (...Read more
2020 10 Jun
NHS CONFED EXPO 2020 HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS Find NHS ConfedExpo on Social Media Read more
2020 25 Feb
Meet "Versius", a new robot that performs minimal access surgery (MAS), helping to reduce complications and pain in patients. The new technology debuted in Europe when Western General Hospital in Edinburgh started using the robot to carry out keyhole surgical procedures. Since then, Versius has been performing a range of colorectal surgeries, including...Read more
2020 13 Jan
A new report suggests the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) should run a pilot project allowing more protected research time for NHS staff. Estimate of the economic costs and literature review of the benefits of dedicated research time for Hospital Consultants in the NHS was commissioned by the Academy of Medical Sciences within...Read more
2019 23 Dec
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) in the UK has called on the new Conservative majority Government to prioritise and boost funding for five areas across NHS imaging and cancer care. You might also like: Brexit: Wreaking Havoc in Healthcare? “You have the power and the opportunity to give patients a sustainably...Read more
2019 13 Dec
With the election in the UK over and the Conservatives scoring an overwhelming victory , what future awaits the National Health Service (NHS)? The topic of NHS has been huge on all parties’ agenda and was discussed in details and debated by all major media outlets in the UK. In the Conservative Party’s manifesto the NHS-related policies...Read more
2019 06 Dec
National Health Service (NHS) patients' safety is at risk due to critical deficiencies in medical record keeping. A new research shows that NHS Trusts use at least 21 different electronic medical record systems, which poses a big challenge to the effective sharing of information. The study from the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at...Read more
2019 12 Nov
Attempts to bring health and care (medic, public and social) research closer with the public has been on NHS’s agenda since early 2000s. Under the ‘p atient and public involvement’ (PPI) initiative, the National Institute for HealthResearch (NIHR) , the largest funder of health and care research in the UK, is committed to align research more...Read more
2019 09 Nov
The OECD has just released its biennial review, Health at a Glance. OECD Indicators, which looks at the 80 key indicators for population health and health system performance in a number of stated related to OECD countries (members, candidates and partners). One of the sections is dedicated to Health Workforce statistics, covering data for both...Read more
2019 29 Oct
Healthcare remains a favourite hunting ground for hackers. The month of April (2019) saw a record high number of 44 healthcare data breaches, affecting information of 686,953 individuals. Common tactics employed by hackers were phishing, ransomware and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. However, in addition to external threats,...Read more
2019 14 Oct
NHSX , created by the UK government early this year , is leading the way in transforming healthcare through digitisation. The agency's primary aim is to bring the benefits of modern technology to every patient and clinician, such as early disease diagnosis and timely treatment, as well as reducing the burden on medical staff. You might also...Read more
2019 01 Oct
The NHS has massive amounts of health data held within its various trusts and other facilities, and these "data silos" make it difficult for researchers and innovators to access and use important data about people's health. This problem will soon be a thing of the past as new data hubs – a total of seven – are set to be rolled out across the UK starting...Read more
2019 03 Sep
Artificial intelligence is behind the development of innovative tools that are increasingly used in healthcare, including health chatbots and virtual assistants. Some hospitals have already deployed chatbots to help patients schedule appointments with their doctors. There are also chatbots that assist patients in learning to cope with some chronic conditions. ...Read more