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BMA

BMA enters dispute with Black Country trusts

By Liz Wells 25 September 2025

The BMA has entered into dispute with four trusts in the Black Country over cuts to bank pay rates for doctors doing extra-contractual work from 1 October.

COMMUNITY

Rehab units to return to acute use as part of shift to community care

By Lee Peart 25 September 2025

Rehabilitation and recovery units at the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal hospitals will close and return to acute use as part of a shift to community care.

BREAST CANCER

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...

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