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Targeted interventions 'warranted' to boost mammography screening

By Liz Wells 25 September 2025

Women who don’t turn up for their first breast screening appointment face a 40% higher long-term risk of dying from breast cancer, mainly due to delayed detection, new research reveals.

PRIMARY CARE

Scottish Government enhances community eye care

By Liz Wells 25 September 2025

The Scottish Government has unveiled plans for a new community eye care service, with approved independent prescribing (IP) optometrists receiving funding to treat more conditions in the community.

NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST

Trust becomes first in UK to adopt laser-guided photon-counting CT scanner

By Liz Wells 25 September 2025

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has become the first site in the UK to install a fully-integrated imaging platform, combining a photon-counting CT system that produces 3D x-rays, wi...

WORKFORCE

Dorset Healthcare workers vote to strike in outsourcing row

By Liz Wells 25 September 2025

Health workers in Dorset have voted for strike action over plans that could see thousands of employees transferred out of the NHS.

PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES

UK drug price rises necessary, says science minister

By Liz Wells 25 September 2025

The price the NHS pays for medicines will need to rise to stop pharmaceutical investment leaving the UK, science minister Patrick Vallance has said.

WAITING LISTS

Government projected to fall 'just short' on key NHS pledge

By Lee Peart 25 September 2025

The Government will fall just short of its flagship NHS target of ensuring 92% of patients waiting less than 18 weeks by the end of Parliament, The Health Foundation has forecast.

TEMPORARY WORKERS

Agency nurses urged to help identify barriers that prevent them speaking up

By Liz Wells 24 September 2025

Agency nurses are being urged to get involved in an independent review to ensure nurses working on temporary assignments can speak up without fear, and that their views are listened to, respected a...

DIGITAL

Digital platform aims to transform patient safety and recall systems in general practice

By Liz Wells 24 September 2025

A new digital platform has launched to transform GP experience and improve patient safety across the UK.

TECHNOLOGY

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust extends Patient Engagement Portal

By Liz Wells 24 September 2025

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has added more specialties to the Patient Engagement Portal (PEP), provided by DrDoctor, which allows patients to receive appointment notifications and dig...

REGULATION

Trust apologises after 'racist and bullying behaviours' reported to CQC

By Lee Peart 24 September 2025

The interim boss of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Brendan Brown, has apologised after staff reported ‘racist and bullying behaviours’ to the CQC.