The patient safety review and response and advice and guidance teams perform a core function within the National Patient Safety team, working to review and analyse sources of information on patient safety events to identify new or under recognised risks. These teams then lead on the development of advice and guidance to support the NHS […]
Where you can make a positive impact towards net zero AHPs and their teams should reduce the carbon impact from food waste by: Considering how your actions and services are impacting on meal-times and patient appetite. If a patient is scheduled for medical imaging and is required to be nil by mouth, has this been […]
Where you can make a positive impact towards net zero AHPs and their teams should reduce the environmental impact of equipment and resources by: Considering the ‘5 Rs’ questions, in order of priority, when selecting equipment for equipment contract catalogues: ’Reduce, Reuse, Reprocessed, Renewable, Recycle’ Where possible, actively involving themselves in the tendering for equipment […]
Please see our Transport support for patients attending in-centre haemodialysis page, for the most up-to-date information. Every patient who needs kidney dialysis will benefit from free transport to and from vital hospital appointments, the NHS in England announced today. New rules will also come into place to make it simpler for other patients to get free […]
Hard working NHS staff saw a record number of people, who were referred for urgent cancer checks, in March, new figures have revealed today. Almost quarter of a million people with suspected cancer were seen as NHS services began to bounce back after the peak of the winter COVID-19 wave. More than 230,000 people were […]
Thousands of people with cancer can benefit from ‘COVID friendly’ treatments from home, the NHS announced today. More than 30 different drugs are available to treat patients, offering benefits such as fewer hospital visits or a reduced impact on their immune system. Around 8,000 people have already benefitted from the treatment ‘swaps’ since April helping […]
Patients are being offered more convenient cancer treatment during the coronavirus pandemic, including chemotherapy buses and the fast track rollout of an innovative and life-saving type of radiotherapy. NHS England has today announced it is accelerating the use of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) which requires fewer doses than standard radiotherapy, cutting the number of hospital […]
The NHS in England is providing a new form of DNA test capable of rapidly diagnosing rare diseases for critically ill babies and children, as part of its Long Term Plan to use world leading technologies to improve care for the sickest infants. 80 babies and children have received this new test, with almost half […]
Cara Charles Banks, the head of the hospital which treated victims of the Salisbury nerve agent attacks joins nurses, psychiatrists, cancer specialists and family doctors and is among more than 30 local and national NHS workers recognised in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours. The NHS’ Chief Allied Health Professions Officer, Suzanne Rastrick, has been awarded […]
3D heart modelling to rapidly diagnose coronary disease and an advanced blood test which can cut the time it takes to rule-out a heart attack by 75% are among a raft of technological innovations being introduced for patients across the NHS. New innovations have already reached 300,000 patients, and speaking at the Reform digital health […]