We are pleased to announce that today the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) based at the Royal College of Anaesthetists has launched our first ever survey of patients and their experiences of being on the NHS waiting list for elective surgery. With over 5 million people now on the NHS waiting list in England, or …
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A leading group of professional healthcare organisations including the Centre for Perioperative Care, the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of General Practitioners, have today launched new guidance which will boost the NHS in its efforts to provide better advice, support and care to patients contemplating or waiting for surgery. Major …
The benefit to patients of being cared for by healthy and happy hospital staff has been recognised with a national wellbeing award to the Intensive Care, anaesthesia and operating theatre staff team at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. The team won the Intensive Care Society’s Welfare and Wellbeing Award at its annual …
NHS Digital’s Terminology Server, a solution which enables healthcare IT systems to speak the same language, is now live and demonstrating the value of collaboration within the health economy when exchanging data. NHS Digital are the first organisation to go live with a solution from the national framework which was awarded in September 2020 to …
The NIHR has appointed a MedTech Industry Engagement Adviser to help optimise collaborations and champion opportunities for small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) as part of our support for the burgeoning MedTech sector. Martin Hunt, a member of the NIHR Strategy Board who was the first Director of NIHR’s Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme from 2009 until March 2021, has …
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New technology that will marry probes that can detect cancer tumours through the skin with high-precision robotic surgery is to be developed for use in hospital settings for the first time in a project led by the University of Warwick. The Terabotics project will use probes that use terahertz radiation, or T-rays, to scan for …
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GMB care members threatened with dismissal if they don’t ignore existing DNR order, GMB Congress hears Do not resuscitate laws must be strengthened to protect carers, GMB Congress said today. A motion, passed at the union’s annual policy-making conference, said the law as it stands is ambiguous and needs clarification. GMB has had reports from members in which management instructions to staff working …
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Virtual event exploring Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the University of Sheffield’s contribution to Covid-19 research to be live streamed on 8 June Researchers and scientists from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield who have been at the forefront of investigating new treatments and vaccines for Covid-19 are to host a …
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ABOUT THE OPERATING THEATRE JOURNAL
The Operating Theatre Journal, OTJ, is published monthly and distributed to every hospital operating theatre department in the UK. The distribution includes both the National Health Service and the Private Sector.
