Record waits for GPs prompts Lib Dems to demand NHS funding boost in Budget
By Liz Wells 16 September 2024
The number of four-week waits for a GP appointment is on course to be reach a new record high year, data uncovered by the Liberal Democrats reveals.
NHS blood samples to be delivered by drones in London first
By Liz Wells 16 September 2024
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is to trial delivering urgent pathology items by electric drone in partnership with Apian and Wing.
Great Western Hospital workers to strike for 48 hours over pay
By Liz Wells 16 September 2024
Caterers, housekeepers, security guards, and porters working for Serco at Great Western Hospital, in Swindon, have begun 48 hours of strike action in their ongoing dispute over pay.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB takes on oral health inequalities
By Liz Wells 13 September 2024
ICBs have financial levers than can help support and challenge oral health inequalities, the King’s Fund annual conference has heard.
Welsh health board tackles harm caused by employee investigations
By Liz Wells 13 September 2024
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has developed a programme to improve employee retention issues, staff absenteeism, and financial impact caused by employee investigations.
Social care driving cost pressures as councils face £2bn funding gap
By Lee Peart 13 September 2024
Rising costs and demand in social care are driving cost pressures on councils as they warned they face a more than £2bn funding gap in 2025/26.
Electronic sepsis risk assessment for children rolled out
By Liz Wells 13 September 2024
A new electronic sepsis risk assessment for children being treated in hospital has been launched at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).
Hospital uses AI to spot missing appointments
By Lee Peart 12 September 2024
A London hospital has used an artificial intelligence tool to spot missing appointments.
Darzi Review: PM says NHS must 'reform or die'
By Lee Peart 12 September 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the NHS ‘must reform or die’ following the publication of today’s Darzi Review.
Darzi Review: A 'mandate for bold, decisive action'
By Lee Peart 12 September 2024
Healthcare leaders and stakeholders have responded to today’s publication of the Darzi Review.
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