Trust opens £23m Community Diagnostic Centre

By Lee Peart 09 January 2025

A new £23m Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has been opened by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

AI model can predict high blood pressure and related complications from ECGs

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

An AI model can be used to predict both the risk of high blood pressure and which patients may go on to experience complications from high blood pressure using an ECG, new research reveals.

Winter pressures 'similar to height of pandemic' as virus levels surge

By Lee Peart 09 January 2025

Frontline staff are experiencing pressures ‘similar to the days at the height of the pandemic’ as virus levels surge across the country.

Robot-guided biopsies tested on UK patients

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

Researchers at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust treating sarcoma have looked at how, using robotic guidance, multiple biopsies can be taken across different parts of a tumour and analysed whi...

Ultrasound imaging technique 'reliably spots' prostate cancer

By Liz Wells 08 January 2025

A new imaging approach developed by researchers at Heriot-Watt University has shown ‘extremely encouraging’ results in early-stage clinical trials on prostate cancer at the Western General Hospital...

Adult social care commission 'should complete this year', says Dilnot

By Lee Peart 08 January 2025

Sir Andrew Dilnot has said it is ‘perfectly feasible’ for the adult social care commission’s work on reform to be completed ‘by the end of 2025’.

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Blood pressure checks offered at dentists and opticians

By Lee Peart 08 January 2025

Blood pressure checks are available at dentists and opticians in Lincolnshire as part of a national NHS pilot.

Commission must not overshadow need for urgent action on social care, says charity

By Lee Peart 08 January 2025

The head of a health and social care charity has said the Government’s launch of a commission on social care must not ‘overshadow the immediate need for investment’ in the sector.

Bowel cancer risk could be reduced with an extra glass of milk

By Liz Wells 08 January 2025

Consuming an additional 300mg of calcium - about the amount in a large glass of milk - a day could decrease the risk of bowel cancer by 17%, new research reveals.

More critical incidents declared as trusts struggle with winter pressures

By Lee Peart 08 January 2025

A series of critical incidents have been called by NHS trusts in the face of rising winter pressures.

frederica-diamanta

Director of Public Health

£112k-£117k

Somerset£112k-£117k

RECRUITER: Somerset Council

Medical Administrator (Stromness Surgery)

Band 3 (£26,869 - £28,998)

Orkney, Orkney IslandsBand 3 (£26,869 - £28,998)

RECRUITER: NHS Orkney

Childrens Home Practitioner

£31,524 - £38,058

Greenwich, London (Greater)£31,524 - £38,058

RECRUITER: Royal Borough of Greenwich

frederica-diamanta

Director of Public Health

£112k-£117k

Somerset£112k-£117k

RECRUITER: Somerset Council

Medical Administrator (Stromness Surgery)

Band 3 (£26,869 - £28,998)

Orkney, Orkney IslandsBand 3 (£26,869 - £28,998)

RECRUITER: NHS Orkney

Childrens Home Practitioner

£31,524 - £38,058

Greenwich, London (Greater)£31,524 - £38,058

RECRUITER: Royal Borough of Greenwich