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Improving patient experience and outcomes using virtual cognitive assistants

Improving patient experience and outcomes using virtual cognitive assistants

Virtual cognitive assistants could drastically reduce the administrative burden on NHS staff, leading to improved patient experience and health outcomes. It’s becoming widely accepted that...
Is healthcare on the brink of a global workforce crisis?

Is healthcare on the brink of a global workforce crisis?

KPMG Global Chairman for Healthcare Dr Mark Britnell, cautions how healthcare is “on the brink of a global workforce crisis” – how prepared is...
Brexit healthcare concerns amplified in case of a no deal Brexit

Brexit healthcare concerns amplified in case of a no deal Brexit

Availability of medicines, staff, researchers and academics has been a point of contention regarding Brexit, here Dr Paul-Peter Tak explores Brexit healthcare and what...
Missing GP appointments occurs more for those with long-term conditions

Missing GP appointments occurs more for those with long-term conditions

Repeatedly missing GP appointments may indicate greater risk of death from all causes, particularly in patients with long-term conditions. Published in BMC Medicine, new research...
NHS Long-term plan – ‘This is not about miracles’

NHS Long-term plan – “This is not about miracles”

Published today, the NHS Long-term plan is set to save almost half a million more lives with practical action and investment in treatments –...
Brexit uncertainty causing trouble for NHS trusts across UK

Brexit uncertainty causing trouble for NHS trusts across UK

According to the BMJ, NHS trusts are struggling to produce concrete plans amid the continuing Brexit uncertainty. NHS trusts across the UK are struggling to...
What does Immigration White Paper mean for the NHS?

What does the Immigration White Paper mean for the NHS?

According to NHS Employers chief executive, Danny Mortimer, the Immigration White Paper proposals do not provide a long-term solution to NHS needs. In response to...
Evaluating blockchain and distributed ledger use for the NHS

Evaluating blockchain and distributed ledger use for the NHS

Dr Stewart Southey weighs the potential benefits of blockchain and distributed ledger technology in the NHS The past few years have seen a veritable frenzy...
UK Government immigration plan causes major concern for NHS

UK Government immigration plan causes major concern for NHS

Focusing on getting the UK Government immigration plan right, NHS Employers chief executive voices his concern regarding the Prime Minister’s speech at the CBI...
NHS could be short of 51,000 nurses by the end of the Brexit transition period

NHS to be short of 51,000 nurses by the end of the Brexit transition...

New report reveals the NHS could be short of 51,000 nurses, enough to staff 45 hospitals, by the end of the Brexit transition period. The...
The digital challenge: achieving a paperless NHS by 2020

The digital challenge: achieving a paperless NHS by 2020

Despite calls for a paperless NHS back in 2013, the service is far from completing its paperless journey. Qlik’s David Bolton sets out how...
Brexit could break the NHS

Brexit could break the NHS

The Immigration Advice Service’s Maddie Grounds explains why the EU referendum, Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ and a possible no-deal Brexit scenario could devastate the...
Is there a youth mental health funding crisis?

Is there a youth mental health funding crisis?

The charity YoungMinds has released a report on the impacts of a lack of youth mental health funding and is campaigning for the UK...
Novel treatment for severe asthma to be available on NHS

Novel treatment for severe asthma to be available on NHS

The UK’s National Health Service will make bronchial thermoplasty, a novel treatment for severe asthma, widely available by the end of 2018. Bronchial thermoplasty was...
Conclusion over confusion healthcare preparing for Brexit

Conclusion over confusion: healthcare preparing for Brexit

Brexit Health Alliance has been working with the government to inform guidance regarding the healthcare industry preparing for Brexit. The government has published its first...
Steam treatment used to tackle benign prostate enlargement

Steam treatment used to tackle benign prostate enlargement

The NHS has presented a new breakthrough procedure using steam that shrinks the enlarged prostate gland, making the treatment of benign prostate enlargement less...
Will the opt-out organ donation register increase numbers?

Will the opt-out organ donation register increase numbers?

According to a new study by Queen Mary University of London, UK, an opt-out organ donation register is unlikely to increase the number of...
New partnership takes aim at out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

New partnership takes aim at out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

The NHS, British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Microsoft have joined forces to help save lives in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. The groundbreaking partnership has the ambitious...
England to introduce opt-out organ donation system

England to introduce opt-out organ donation system

The UK Government has unveiled plans for an opt-out system for tissue and organ donation in England, in a move which it says will...
Health Europa Quarterly discusses the latest health trends

Health Europa Quarterly discusses the latest health trends

Editor Kathryn Washburn introduces the sixth edition of Health Europa Quarterly, which features contributions from Dr Roberta Petrino, president of the European Society for Emergency...

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