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NHS South West London welcomes new non-executive members

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

The South West London ICB has appointed three new non-executive members and two associate non-executive members, bringing a wealth of expertise to the board’s work.

PAGB

Consumer healthcare association names new president

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

PAGB, the consumer healthcare association, has appointed Mike Knowland as its new president.

COMMUNITY CARE

Heart failure clinic offers patients treatment closer to home

By Lee Peart 09 January 2025

A new heart failure clinic is offering North Norfolk patients treatment closer to home.

COMMUNITY DIAGNOSTIC CENTRE

Trust opens £23m Community Diagnostic Centre

By Lee Peart 09 January 2025

A new £23m Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has been opened by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

PREVENTION

AI model can predict high blood pressure and related complications from ECGs

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

An AI model can be used to predict both the risk of high blood pressure and which patients may go on to experience complications from high blood pressure using an ECG, new research reveals.

WAITING LISTS

Winter pressures 'similar to height of pandemic' as virus levels surge

By Lee Peart 09 January 2025

Frontline staff are experiencing pressures ‘similar to the days at the height of the pandemic’ as virus levels surge across the country.

THE ROYAL MARSDEN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Robot-guided biopsies tested on UK patients

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

Researchers at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust treating sarcoma have looked at how, using robotic guidance, multiple biopsies can be taken across different parts of a tumour and analysed whi...

TECHNOLOGY

Ultrasound imaging technique 'reliably spots' prostate cancer

By Liz Wells 08 January 2025

A new imaging approach developed by researchers at Heriot-Watt University has shown ‘extremely encouraging’ results in early-stage clinical trials on prostate cancer at the Western General Hospital...

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE COMMITTEE