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  • Leeds Hospitals trials new electric vehicles

    Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is starting a trial of electric heavy goods vehicles for the next year. 20 new vehicles have been funded by the Department of Transport, with four going to Leeds Teaching. The electric vehicles will be used to deliver patient meals, pharmaceutical items and general supplies […]

  • New service to provide additional support for cancer patients in Norfolk

    Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) has launched a new support service to provide additional practical and emotional support to cancer patients, along with their carers and companions. Macmillan Cancer Support and the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System have provided funding to help people affected by […]

  • NHS England publishes tools for shared decision-making between clinicians and patients

    NHS England has published eight decision tools designed to support shared decision-making between clinicians and patients. The tools have been developed in accordance with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) standards framework for shared decision-making support tools and explain treatment, care and support options to help the […]

  • GOSH research finds brain wiring differences in children with epilepsy

    Children with epilepsy have brains that are “wired differently”, according to the study run by researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, King’s College London, University of Pennsylvania and Nemours Children’s Hospital. The researchers used a diffusion MRI on 79 children to […]

  • King’s Centre for Lung Health launches

    A new centre of excellence focused on lung health has launched with the aim of discovering new treatments, diagnoses and drugs. The King’s Centre for Lung Health is led by clinicians from Royal Brompton and Harefield, Guy’s and St Thomas and King’s College Hospital; academics from King’s College and Imperial […]

  • Frimley Health NFT publishes Nursing & Midwifery Strategy 2022 – 2025

    Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust have published their Nursing & Midwifery Strategy, outlining how they deliver their current patient experience and care and describing how they plan to strengthen services going forwards. The strategy begins by laying out the trust’s vision: “to provide our patients and communities with evidence-based, outstanding […]

LATEST NEWS

  • Deputy chief executive appointed at Kingston Hospital and HRCH, with joint year objectives planned

  • Leeds Hospitals trials new electric vehicles

  • New chief executive for Medway

  • Royal Papworth appoints new chief executive

  • New service to provide additional support for cancer patients in Norfolk

  • First Contact Mental Health Practitioners to support adults with mental health care in North Yorkshire

  • Royal Free Hospital research suggests new gene therapy could help with haemophilia B

  • NHS England publishes tools for shared decision-making between clinicians and patients

  • New research study to test for Group B Streptococcus in pregnancy

  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust opens specialist centre for young people with eating disorders

 

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  • Feature: exploring the future of sustainability within the NHS

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NHS

New service to provide additional support for cancer patients in Norfolk

NHS England publishes tools for shared decision-making between clinicians and patients

King’s College Hospital NFT publishes Roadmap to Inclusion 2022-2024

Over 2 million increase in General Practice appointments, NHS Digital data shows

Royal United Hospitals launch new service to tackle age inequality in ovarian cancer outcomes

DHSC publishes paper on implementation of Integrated Care Partnerships

BWC launches anti-racism and discrimination campaign

NHSE publishes new guidance on tackling neighbourhood health inequality

University Sussex NHS FT appoints new Chief Executive

MFT selected as first UK site to roll out life-saving gene therapy for rare disease

 

GREEN NHS

Leeds Hospitals trials new electric vehicles

St George’s University Hospital introduces ‘green gas and air’ for pain reduction

Imperial College Healthcare launches new initiative to recycle discarded PPE into new NHS products

Nottinghamshire University Hospitals shares new ‘Green Plan’

South East London Integrated Care System shares its ‘Green Plan’

Feature: exploring the future of sustainability within the NHS

London Ambulance Service purchases greener £16 million pound fleet

Tavistock and Portman NHS shares ‘Green Plan’ for trust sustainability

North East to embed environmental sustainability in health education

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS reveals sustainability plan

 

TRANSFORMATION

NHS England introduces 100-day discharge challenge

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust publishes ‘Sustainable Travel’ plan

NHS England and NHS Improvement publishes letter on ‘Enabling the Workforce for Elective Recovery’

Greater Manchester Mental Health FT launches new research unit to combat mental health service inequalities

Health and Care Bill receives Royal Assent

King’s College Hospital FT publishes new ‘action plan’

Royal Papworth Hospital launches diamond tool to correct abnormal heart rhythms

DHSC publishes paper on implementation of Integrated Care Partnerships

Northamptonshire staff develop new drugs measuring tool

UCL develop new risk algorithm to improve prostate cancer screening

 

PEOPLE NEWS

Deputy chief executive appointed at Kingston Hospital and HRCH, with joint year objectives planned

New chief executive for Medway

Royal Papworth appoints new chief executive

Medical Leadership Series: Dr Alice Seabourne, Medical Director, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust appoints new CEO

Appointment News in Brief – new Research Midwife at Doncaster and Bassetlaw FT, new interim Chair for North West London CCG

Appointments News in Brief – a new Director of Research and Development at OUH, new Chief Operating Officer for Royal Surrey

Sussex Partnership appoints new CEO

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT appoints new CEO

Stephen Posey announced as new CEO for Derby and Burton

 

NEWS IN BRIEF

News in Brief – Liverpool Women’s FT donates neonatal equipment to Ukrainian hospital, Kingston Hospital FT launches new Rapid Diagnostic Cancer Clinic

Appointment News in Brief – new Group CEO for Barts Health and Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals…

News in Brief – London North West University Healthcare sends equipment to Ukraine, South Tees Hospital FT launches new VR equipment for trainee nurses

Appointment News in Brief – new Research Midwife at Doncaster and Bassetlaw FT, new interim Chair for North West London CCG

News in Brief – North West Ambulance Service launches new ‘green’ vehicles, Sheffield Health and Social Care introduce new mental health cards

Appointments News in Brief – a new Director of Research and Development at OUH, new Chief Operating Officer for Royal Surrey

News in Brief – New President for British Heart Valve Society, James Paget launches Family Liaison Officers

News in Brief – London Ambulance Service donates 10 ambulances to Ukraine, Kernow CCG launch new sleep service

News in Brief – Bradford Teaching Hospitals provide fasting packs, new £1.82m decarbonisation grant for Hillingdon Hospitals

News in Brief – Stoke and Staffordshire ICB appoint Chief Medical officer, SWB receive £100,000 to improve cancer survival rates

 

STRATEGY

NHS Health Research Authority launches new strategy on helping people trust research

King’s College Hospital NFT publishes Roadmap to Inclusion 2022-2024

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust publishes ‘Sustainable Travel’ plan

NICE shares new guidance on integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness

Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT shares new five-year strategy

Nottinghamshire University Hospitals shares new ‘Green Plan’

South East London Integrated Care System shares its ‘Green Plan’

Feature: exploring the future of sustainability within the NHS

 

DESIGN, ESTATES, FACILITES

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust opens specialist centre for young people with eating disorders

Croyden University Hospital opens new stroke unit as part of £14.7m modernisation

Barnsley Hospital opens Community Diagnostic Centre in town centre

New pharmacy aseptic unit to bring lifesaving services to United Lincolnshire Hospitals

East Kent Hospitals University FT opens new critical care unit

Plans for new Emergency Care Centre at Scarborough Hospital green lit

United Lincolnshire Hospitals launches new breast pain clinic

Kent Community Health FT takes ownership of two hospitals

Black Country and West Birmingham CCG opens four new primary care hubs

Construction begins on new £1.9m North Devon hospital ward to reduce orthopaedic waiting times

 
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