Settings and data Our primary research involved five NHS 111 sites in England. We conducted 356 hours of non-participant observation in NHS 111 call centres and the urgent care centres and, linked to ...

Hundreds of NHS workers across the East of England face uncertainty over their jobs and the various ICBs in the region could be merged together. The Suffolk and North East Essex ICB is in talks ...

It comes after the government accepted the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) advice for an NHS roll out of the vaccine amid a record high 85,000 gonorrhoea diagnoses in England ...

But this will require ministers and healthcare leaders in England ... David Snelson, a patient with an endocrine condition called Addison’s disease, illustrates the flaws within this amalgam of ...

Yearly Covid-19 Booster Recommendations in Canada, Europe, and Australia. Although the rapid development of multiple Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 represents a major scientific, medical, and ...

NHS England has introduced a Cyber Security Charter, hopefully improving the digital safety and resilience of the health service’s supply chain In an open letter addressed to current, prospective, and ...

However, between 2009 and 2024 the number of staff recorded in NHS district nurse roles – represented by the solid purple line on the chart – fell by 43%, from 7,643 to 4,322. Put another way, for ...

Since the introduction of NHS England’s blood borne virus opt-out testing in emergency departments, there have been 1000 new HIV diagnoses. I recently supported a patient who tested positive in 2023, ...

GPs in England and their patients are to help the NHS find more victims of the contaminated blood scandal. It is thought thousands of people could have been exposed to the hepatitis C virus ...

Jenny Barron has been sworn in as the Mayor of the Stafford borough. The local councillor becomes the second member of her family to hold the role, after her husband Ray Barron served in the same ...

A total of 2516 participants underwent randomization; 1797 (71.4%) completed the trial. Of 2421 participants in the full analysis population (1209 assigned to the albuterol–budesonide group and ...

NHS England has issued new guidance to GPs on introducing the questions, capturing responses and supporting patients where a blood transfusion and infection risk is indicated. Only newly registered ...