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This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45958980 By BBC Health news Two unborn babies have had their spines repaired by surgeons – weeks before they were born. The operations – which are the first ever of their kind in the UK – were carried out by a team of 30 doctors at University College Hospital in London….
This article was taken from: https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/nhs-to-train-nurses-in-using-safe-staffing-tools/7023646.article By Shaun Lintern Senior nurses will be trained in how to use the Safer Nursing Care Tool to help tackle inconsistent safe staffing plans in the NHS. A letter to chief nurses from NHS Improvement’s chief nurse Ruth May has invited trusts to send a member of staff on a…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45943884 By Hugh Pym, Health editor at BBC News Will there be a bleak winter for the NHS? A cycle of perpetual winter crises and the NHS running on empty – these are the latest warnings coming from groups in England representing hospitals and doctors. That sounds rather familiar for this time…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/22/antimicrobial-antibiotic-resistance-must-be-policy-priority-for-uk-government-say-mps By Press Association at the Guardian Global death toll from antimicrobial-resistant infections expected to rise to 10m a year by 2050 Tackling antimicrobial resistance needs to become a top-five policy priority for the government in order to help prevent the virtual loss of modern medicine, MPs have said. A report by…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/21/nhs-denies-flu-vaccine-shortage-amid-complaints-over-delays By Ben Quinn The NHS and healthcare bodies have sought to offer assurances that there are adequate supplies of the flu vaccine amid mounting unease among older people who have been unable to get the jab at surgeries and pharmacies outside of London. Deliveries of this year’s adjuvanted trivalent vaccine (aTIV) – a new,…