Routine NHS care facing ‘enormous’ disruption with hospitals to lose tens of thousands of...
Strike action across England this week will significantly disrupt almost all routine care in the NHS, England’s top doctor has warned today.
Professor Sir Stephen...
Manchester Electronic sharing of prescription medicines information would make patients safer, study shows
number of medication errors occurring when people go into, or leave hospital, would reduce by 40% from 1.8 million to 1.1 million if information...
Manchester leads on research to reduce the risk of serious side-effects of cancer treatment
A research programme called Living With and Beyond Cancer (LWBC) led by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust with The University of Manchester as part...
NHS expands high-res skin imaging to speed up cancer diagnoses and treatment for tens...
Tens of thousands of patients are set to receive a diagnosis and treatment for skin cancer faster, with accelerated NHS rollout of ‘teledermatology’, which...
Long Covid can impact fatigue and quality of life worse than some cancers
Fatigue is the symptom that most significantly impacts the daily lives of long Covid patients, and can affect quality of life more than some...
Plans revealed for weight loss jabs in Government fight against obesity
More people living with obesity will have access to the newest and most effective obesity drugs to help cut NHS waiting lists, following the...
Record levels of gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses in 2022
New data from the UK Health Security Agency published today shows record levels of gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses in 2022.
The latest data shows: that...
Children’s doctors call for an outright ban on disposable e-cigarettes
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is urging the UK Government to implement an outright ban on disposable e-cigarette products due to...
Costs of expensive new drugs threaten financial sustainability of NHS
New figures show that the total cost of prescription medicines to the NHS in England reached a new high of £17.2 billion in the...
Rochdale Showcases Its Work to European Health Leaders
Health chiefs from Rochdale have revealed the benefits of collaborative working in Greater Manchester to a conference of more than 1,000 delegates in Belgium.
Dr...