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BEST PRACTICE

Cancer trial could mean 1m fewer outpatient clinic appointments

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

A cancel trial at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) could mean 1m fewer outpatient appointments.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

BREAKING NEWS: Resident doctors in England vote for industrial action 

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

Resident doctors in England are urging health secretary Wes Streeting to immediately negotiate a new pay deal after voting overwhelmingly in favour of strike action.

REGULATION

Review to determine whether misreported MRI scans contributed to deaths

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

A review has begun into whether misreported MRI scans contributed to the deaths of 101 patients.

PRIMARY CARE

MPs find medicines shortages now 'systemic threat' to patient care

By Liz Wells 08 July 2025

A new report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pharmacy calls for urgent reforms to medicines supply, after describing shortages as a 'permanent and escalating feature' of the health...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Government invests £1.5bn in improving early years and family services

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

The Government has announced a £1.5bn investment in improving early years and family services.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Social care and public health leads local authority third-party spend

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

Social care and public health led local government third-party spend in 2024, new figures have revealed.

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BREAKING NEWS: Streeting promises to 'streamline patient safety landscape'

By Lee Peart 07 July 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has promised to ‘streamline the patient safety landscape’.

NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Northumbria health staff to strike over 'missing wages'

By Liz Wells 07 July 2025

Hundreds of healthcare assistants employed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are to take strike action later this month in a dispute over 'wages they are owed'.

PEOPLE MOVES

Derby and Burton trust appoints substantive executive chief operating officer

By Liz Wells 07 July 2025

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has selected Paran Govender as its substantive executive chief operating officer.

EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL

Employment Rights Bill amendment expands bereavement leave to pregnancy loss

By Liz Wells 07 July 2025

Families who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks are set to become entitled to protected bereavement leave, under new amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.