New Dementia Campaign Launched to Raise Awareness and Offer Support
This article was funded by Luye Pharma Ltd A new campaign to raise awareness of dementia and offer help for those whose lives have been…
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NHS Pay Rise Welcome, But Government Needs To Do More To Attract and Retain Staff
Following Rachel Reeves’s announcement that Labour accepts “in full” pay rises recommended by independent pay review bodies for NHS staff, as well as a 22.3%…
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GPs Now Delivering A Fifth More Appointments Than Pre-Pandemic
GP teams delivered more than 28.7 million appointments in June 2024 – up one fifth on the same period pre-pandemic, new figures published today show….
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European Medicines Regulator Rejects New Alzheimer’s Drug
Europe’s medicines regulator has rejected a marketing request for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment, saying the risks of the medicine’s side effects. The medicines regulator…
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Dementia Diagnoses In England At Record High
Record numbers of people are being diagnosed with dementia in England, NHS figures show. Latest data shows a record 487,432 people in England in…
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Covid Inquiry: Government “Ill Prepared” and “Failed Public” Findings Reveal
The UK government and every devolved administration ‘’failed their citizens’ by being ill-prepared for the Covid pandemic according to the distressing first conclusions of the…
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Sector Leaders Respond to Kings Speech
Legislation affecting health and social care feature in the plans Sir Keir Starmer’s new government has for the country, which were summarized by King Charles…
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Junior Doctors Attend First Meeting with New Government
BMA junior doctors committee co-chairs Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi attended their first meeting with the newly appointed Secretary of State for Health…
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US Regulator Approves Second Alzheimer’s Drug, Donanemab
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Alzheimer’s drug donanemab (known commercially as Kisunla) for people in the US with confirmed amyloid…
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NCF Members Amplify The Voices Of People In Receipt Of Care And Support As They Speak Up For Care
The National Care Forum (NCF) has worked with its not-for-profit members to amplify the voices of older people, people with learning disabilities and autistic people…
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A Decade Of Failure To Uphold NHS Patients’ Rights To Timely Care
New research by the Nuffield Trust shows that nine of the eleven waiting time targets set out in the health service’s contract with patients are…
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HICA Group Announces Specialised Veteran Care Initiative
As we recognise Armed Forces Day this weekend, a Yorkshire-headquartered social care group has announced the adoption and roll out of the Veteran Friendly Framework…
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NHS Given Mixed Bill Of Health In New Study Of International Healthcare Systems
The NHS is “neither a leader nor a laggard” when compared to healthcare systems of similar countries, though on some critical measures of resources and…
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£1.4bn Of PPE Destroyed From One Covid Contract
In what has been called a “staggering waste” the government has destroyed or written off an estimated £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (PPE). According…
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NHS Delivers 4 Million Spring Covid Vaccines
Over 4 million people have now received their spring covid booster from the NHS just 10 weeks after bookings officially opened as part of the…
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