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NHS England abolition leaves patients and staff facing uncertain future, PAC warns

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) raises concerns over NHS England abolition and its impact on patients and staff.

Care Act advocacy: A new right for vulnerable people

Pete Fleischmann, Head of Co-production at the Social Care Institute for Excellence and Karen Newbigging, Senior Lecturer in Health Care Policy and Management at...

Accessible healthcare for all

Sarah White, Policy and Partnerships Manager (Health) at the national disability charity Sense outlines the importance of healthcare being accessible for people who are...

How GoTreatIT is supporting patient-centered care

Fighting vague and imprecise answers when measuring the quality of care – GoTreatIT software creates visual overview of already completed or ongoing treatment, including...

Who cares for the carers?

David Mowat, Under-Secretary of State for Community Health and Care at the Department of Health, highlights the Carers Strategy, and how it gives carers the...

The global electronic health record debacle

Jean Michel LeTennier, CEO, Atomic Information Systems Corp talks about global electronic health records and explains the challenges of these systems... What has become painfully clear to...

Do youth offenders benefit from physical activity?

Ellen Rowles from Action PR outlines why physical activity can hold the key to the success of supporting youth offenders… Statistics from the Youth Justice Board...

Residual malaria – relevance to transmission in the Amazon Basin

Jan Conn, Sara Bickersmith and Catharine Prussing from the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health and Marta Moreno from the Department of...

Monitoring antibiotic resistance in the UK

Antibiotic resistance is becoming a global problem and here in part 2 of an interview with AG, Professor Alan Johnson, Head of the Department...

What can we do to protect our lung health?

Professor Guy Joos, President of the European Respiratory Society and Dan Smyth, Chair of the European Lung Foundation, look at the importance of healthy...

€68m medical devices research centre to open in Ireland

A new partnership between universities in Ireland will see a new centre for medical device research launched… The medical devices research sector is set to...

Brain disorders and the burden of diseases

Frédéric Destrebecq, Executive Director, and Vinciane Quoidbach, Public Health and Policy Project Manager at the European Brain Council, explain the socio-economic impact of interventions...

Clear and credible plan needed for digital health

According to a new briefing published by The Kings’ Fund, government minister's and NHS leaders should have a definitive plan for digital health… The briefing...

Encouraging communities to get healthy

Beki Cadd and Stephanie Bradbeer from Action PR highlight the importance of increasing leisure participation amongst disengaged groups within communities… According to statistics from Sport...

Global pledge to eradicate drug-resistant infections

A landmark declaration is to be signed by the 193 countries of the United Nations to stamp out drug-resistant infections or “superbugs”… Experts say, the...

Funding key research for Alzheimer’s disease

Melinda Kelley from the National Institute on Aging in the US, speaks to Editor Laura Evans about raising awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and how...

Smoking rates in England fall to lowest on record

The number of people in England smoking has fallen to the lowest ever recorded, according to Public Health England (PHE)… Compared with 19.3 percent in...

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