New EU rules for reprocessing Single-Use Devices
EU Commission Publishes Stringent New Common Specifications Requirements for Reprocessing Single-Use Devices, Making In-House Hospital Reprocessing "Difficult if not Impossible"…
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NHS to investigate Covid-19 and ethnicity
NHS Employers welcomes funding for research projects to investigate COVID-19 and ethnicity. A total of £4.3 million of funding has…
Unprecedented demand for school age vaccinations
Unprecedented demand as NHS restarts school age vaccinations programme: The NHS has reported unprecedented demand since it restarted its vaccination programme…
Rankin’s powerful portraits of NHS frontline staff
Rebecca Wallersteiner interviews the renowned photographer, Rankin, who has previously shot the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and the Queen on…
Cancer backlog: Action Radiotherapy response
Action Radiotherapy calls for an urgent resolution to the cancer backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. "A dramatic intervention from…
Urgent action needed on BAME workforce risk assessments
Urgent action needed on BAME workforce risk assessments: According to a new survey from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and…
BAME communities disproportionately affected by Covid-19
In the UK and beyond, COVID-19 has been disproportionately deadly for people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.…
Lack of cancer diagnosis now a major crisis in UK
The need for urgent cancer diagnosis and screening is becoming more acute by each passing day according to one of…
Kawasaki-like syndrome linked to COVID-19 in children is a new condition
A study on children suffering from severe inflammatory symptoms shows the condition is new and distinct from Kawasaki disease. In…
BGS statement on BAME health workers
As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community is…
Leading cancer expert calls for five point action plan to kick start cancer services
Professor Karol Sikora, chief medical officer at Rutherford Health and the former head of the WHO’s cancer programme, called for…
Amazing face shield initiative
Engineers at the University of Bradford have started face shield mass production of for the NHS in response to the…