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GMC closes NHS Basildon Anaesthetics Unit over patient safety concerns

Health & Social Care
The General Medical Council imposes conditions on Basildon University Hospital's anaesthetics training after concerns about patient safety.

The role optical practices play in dealing with eye problems

Diseases & Conditions
Daryl Newsome FBDO R CL SMC(Tech), President of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, examines the important role that optical practices can play in dealing with eye problems.

One in eight COVID-19 patients develops long COVID symptoms

Health & Social Care
One in eight adults (12.7%) who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience long COVID symptoms, including chest pain, difficulties breathing, painful muscles and more.

Black patients and women less likely to receive care for heart failure

Health & Social Care
Black patients and female patients with heart failure who qualify as candidates for surgery have a lower chance of getting that operation than white patients or male patients.

Drug relapse and withdrawal worsened by sleep disruptions

Mental Health
Relapse presents a major barrier to recovery from substance use disorders, and sleep disruptions have long been associated with drug withdrawal and relapse.

We must tackle the UK malnutrition postcode lottery

Health & Social Care
Malnutrition is often misunderstood as something that only happens in other countries, but UK malnutrition is intensifying.

Smokers and vapers are 45% more likely to die from COVID-19

Health & Social Care
Smokers or vapers prior to hospitalisation for COVID-19 were more likely to experience severe complications, and die from COVID-19, than their counterparts.

Women’s health strategy established for doctors to tackle gender inequality

Women's Health
Doctors now must take mandatory training on female-specific health, as a new women’s health strategy pushes for more equal research and medical conduct between...

What are the pros and cons of implementing AI in healthcare?

Health & Social Care
AI in healthcare covers a wide range of assistance to health systems and workers, but what are the specific benefits and downfalls of its adoption?

Drone chemotherapy becomes an NHS net zero cancer strategy

Health & Social Care
NHS cancer patients will be the first to experience drone chemotherapy, which furthers the NHS net zero strategy, as it cuts down travel time and distance.

Privatisation of healthcare leads to worse quality of care

Health & Social Care
Health outsourcing has been found to be linked to higher mortality rates, as privatisation of healthcare worsens healthcare services.

Better health systems: putting health at the heart of tourism

Health & Social Care
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge & Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat explain the importance of putting health at the heart of tourism, including a commitment made in this vein by Europe’s smallest countries to better health systems.

NHS trusts to digitise pathology services with cloud computing

Digital Transformation
Two NHS trusts in England will collaborate with technology partner Sectra to deploy digital pathology services using cloud infrastructure NHS trusts in East Suffolk and...

Attending the same GP is better for your health

Health & Social Care
Patients who attend the same GP are more likely to build a trusted relationship with them, and take their advice – but only 52% of patients can revisit the same GP.

Digital healthcare in the NHS expands with £150 million in government funding

Digital Transformation
Supporting social care, the government have invested £150 million over the next 3 years to enable digital healthcare transformation, ranging from virtual wards to vaccine records on phones.

Cannabis users 22% more likely to need emergency care and hospitalisation

Health & Social Care
Emergency department attendance and instances requiring hospitalisations are 22% higher among cannabis users compared with those who do not.

Who will pay for the precision cancer medicine revolution?

Health & Social Care
Ketil Widerberg, General Manager of Oslo Cancer Cluster, describes the complexities of implementing precision cancer medicine in Norway and suggests a way forward.
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