Breast cancer screening is evolving with the introduction of seated mammography, an innovate approach to enhance accessibility and comfort for mammograms, particularly benefiting women with disabilities. Recent research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights a worrying trend: women with disabilities are significantly less likely to undergo screenings within recommended guidelines. Barriers […]

Hospital inspectors are investigating an NHS trust over the deaths of three babies. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS trust could be prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over the deaths of the infants in 2021. A Nottinghamshire Police investigation has already been announced into the trust’s maternity services by Chief Constable Kate Meynell. The trust said

Eitan Medical, a global leader in advanced infusion therapy and drug delivery solutions with reliable innovations that put patients at the center of care, announced today, the launch of Eitan Insights, a new cloud-based infusion management system designed to meet the unique needs of home and specialty infusions. Eitan Medical’s infusion systems, Sapphire with its

Only 15% of workplaces in the healthcare sector have a supportive infertility policy A fifth of healthcare employees would call in sick before sharing fertility struggles with employers, according to the 2023 Workplace Infertility Stigma Survey. The study also found just 15% of workplaces in the healthcare sector have a supportive workplace policy for employees

A new survey of 8,000 UK adults has highlighted an increase in mental health transparency in the workplace.  This year 35 percent of UK employees said they called in sick due to poor mental health but gave another reason*. While this is a significant percentage, it is lower than the findings from Nuffield Health’s 2022

Vanguard Healthcare Solutions, the UK’s leading provider of flexible clinical infrastructure, is hosting an information event for healthcare professionals which will offer a tour of one of its new mobile operating theatres. Vanguard creates and rapidly delivers mobile and modular healthcare spaces which help hospitals and health systems to provide increased capacity and essential surgical

The FAST 2 (Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy guided Surfactant Therapy) trial begins in 4 Danish University Hospitals to validate performance of innovative point-of-care (POC) device SIME Diagnostics, a pioneer in point-of-care respiratory diagnostics in the ICU, has launched an investigational pilot (FAST 2 study) of the company’s Clinical AI Platform in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs)

In claims against medical professionals the system remains under pressure and our general prediction is that everything will take longer and claims will cost more to resolve. The Fixed Recoverable Costs bubble? The government is still considering the introduction of FRC for clinical negligence claims worth up to £25,000. Initially it appeared that this would

Have lessons been learned in the decade since the Francis Report explored major failures of care at Stafford Hospital that led to unnecessary patient deaths. It is 10 years since the publication of the report by Sir Robert Francis KC of the Public Inquiry into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The inquiry explored major failures of care at

The medical technology strategy will ensure patients can access safe, effective and innovative equipment and medical devices. Patients across the UK are set to benefit from access to safe, effective and innovative equipment and medical devices as part of the first ever medical technology (medtech) strategy published this week. The blueprint for boosting NHS medtech will focus