Majority Of NHS Staff Support Using AI In Patient Care, Major Polling Finds
More than three quarters of NHS staff (76%) support the use of AI to help with patient care, with 81% also in favour of its…
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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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NHS Calls National Blood Shortage Amber Alert
A perfect storm of increased demand of O type blood from hospitals following the recent cyber attack which has impacted London hospitals and reduced collections…
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Councils And NHS Need To Work More Closely To Improve Local Care
Integrated Care Systems are not doing enough to put the vulnerable people they support at the heart of what they do, according to a new…
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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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Improving NHS Performance Not Going To Be Quick Or Easy
NHS staff managed a record number of A&E attendances for any June and more than half a million emergency admissions, new figures show. Hospitals reported…
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NHS Waiting Times Slower To Recover In England Than In Similar Countries
The NHS in England is lagging behind other high-income countries on how quickly it is recovering from the pandemic when it comes to average (median)…
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The Carer General Election Live – Sector Leaders Share their Views on Labour’s Historic General Election Win
The ballots have been counted; it has been confirmed that Labour have won the general election with a convincing majority. Sir Keir Starmer, MP for…
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Doctors In Wales Vote To Accept Pay Offers
The BMA’s consultants, junior doctors and SAS (specialist, associate specialist, and specialty doctors) committees in Wales have all accepted the Welsh Government’s pay offers after…
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Junior Doctors In England Begin New Strike
The NHS will face major disruption this week as junior doctors launch five days of industrial action, with services already under increasing pressure, England’s top…
Read more...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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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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NHS Leaders Preparing For Strikes But Not Too Late For Junior Doctors To Call Them Off
One of the country’s most senior doctors, Professor Philip Banfield, has said that despite calling an election, the Prime Minister still needs to answer for…
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Double Award Win For Admiral Nurse Team At Inaugural Dementia Awards
Caroline-(second-from-left)and-the-Admiral-Nurse-team-receiving-their-award The Admiral Nurse team from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) have won two awards at the inaugural Dementia Care Awards, which celebrate outstanding…
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