Testing for Covid-19 – an unresolved fiasco
…is just a week away, with only around 23,000 tests being delivered, despite claims of capacity to test up to 50,000 daily. Full story in The Lowdown, 24 April 2020…
…is just a week away, with only around 23,000 tests being delivered, despite claims of capacity to test up to 50,000 daily. Full story in The Lowdown, 24 April 2020…
Full story in The Huddersfield Examiner, 12 March 2018 Health campaigners are being urged to take part in a protest outside Leeds Crown Court this week. Members of the Hands…
…Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health (SOS). A record breaking £300,000 was raised by over 10,000 donations through the online crowd-funding platform CrowdJustice. The SOS intends to impose…
The largely vague and un-costed digital components of the STPs need a substantial upgrade, or the NHS will continue to lag behind comparable health systems on technology for years to…
…located Urgent Care Centres’. NHS bosses are understood to be looking to create new urgent care centres which will be less confusing for patients, more efficient and will take even…
More details have emerged about a major shake-up of Cornwall’s NHS, which could close minor injury units. It suggests they could be set to replaced with less walk-in centres under…
…NHS Clinical Commissioners earlier this year. The commissioners in the area told the HSJ that they have been told to examine “difficult decisions” and “think the unthinkable”, including modelling changes…
…– to only leave beds open at Burslem’s Haywood Hospital and Leek Moorlands Hospital. The area’s two clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have started their bed closure programme ahead of a…
…another example of GP partners deciding to serve notice on their contract: the practice will close at the end of October with its patient list dispersed to nearby practices. Full…
The move by the NHS community pharmacy sector to bolster its clinical offer to patients by expanding into hypertension case-finding and smoking cessation services is a welcome development, but the…