We are all aware the NHS is under significant pressure and faces many challenges.  The Darzi Report outlined that a shift in focus was needed to meet the needs of the population in the 21st century. Embracing new technologies, using the wealth of data available to us to develop and target services to meet patient […]

The effective use of electronic patient records (EPR), in secondary care, to deliver clinical workflows represents a transformative step for our healthcare system. Hear from heart failure specialists about the national ambitions for heart disease and testing the standardisation of the heart failure workflow through EPR configuration. National context: Professor Simon Ray, National clinical director […]

Dr Layan Allawi – NHS England Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Clinical Fellow – describes her experience of carrying the sickle cell trait and its relation to sickle cell disease. When I was young, I was told that I carried a gene of a blood condition called sickle cell disease. At the time, I didn’t really […]

For National Cholesterol Month, Helen Williams, National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, and Rani Khatib, National Speciality Advisor for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, outline how managing cholesterol and improving lipid management is key to preventing cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of premature death in the UK. The government and NHS have set […]

This October, as we mark Black History Month and 77 years of the NHS, we take time to honour the contributions made by black and racially diverse communities to our mental health services, and to face, with honesty, the inequalities that persist within them. The fight against racial inequality and inequity in mental health services […]

The many faces of sickle cell A sickle cell crisis does not introduce itself politely. Sometimes it shows up as excruciating pain. Sometimes as yellowing eyes from jaundice. Sometimes as an unexpected mass in the left side of the abdomen, the spleen swollen and struggling. Diagnosis: splenic sequestration crisis. At other times, sickle cell slips […]