This blog covers the latest UK health care news, publications, policy announcements, events and information focused on the NHS, as well as the latest media stories and local news coverage of the NHS Trusts in Northamptonshire.
Friday, 3 March 2023
Delighted dad and daughter who work for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust win national NHS award
Not unthinkable: the solutions to health and care problems are there but need time and money
Not unthinkable: the solutions to health and care problems are there but need time and money Ahead of the Nuffield Trust Summit, we spoke to Nigel Edwards about the main problems facing the NHS and social care, and his hopes on whether they can be fixed or not.
Social care 360
Making health for all policies: harnessing the co-benefits of health
Norovirus cases increase significantly in England
National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports published
Meeting to avert junior doctors' strike in England fails
- Health Secretary admits he has no mandate from the Prime Minister to negotiate a pay deal with junior doctors just days before strike BMA
- NHS Employers responds to the government offering talks with other trade unions NHS Employers
- Health unions to consider invite from government to enter formal pay talks through NHS staff council UNISON
- Unite response to government offer of NHS pay talks Unite
- Huge breakthrough could see NHS strikes called off The Daily Mail
- Junior doctors strike to go ahead after talks with Government fail Evening Standard
- Health unions could call off strikes as Steve Barclay opens door to pay talks The Guardian
Matt Hancock: Eight government WhatsApp Covid messages revealed
- Matt Hancock: More leaked texts put spotlight on police and quarantine BBC News
- Isabel Oakeshott reveals why she leaked Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages BBC News
- Covid care home testing - more complex than it seems BBC News
- Matt Hancock, care home testing and those leaked WhatsApp texts explained The Daily Mail
- The Lockdown Files The Daily Telegraph
- Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages: what he said v Covid context The Guardian
- What have we learned from Matt Hancock's leaked WhatsApp messages? ITV News
- Who is Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke an NDA to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApps? Sky News
Toxic debate over lab leak theory hampers search for Covid origins
Bowel cancer breakthrough as scientists find chemotherapy response could be predicted by existing NHS test
Bowel cancer breakthrough as scientists find chemotherapy response could be predicted by existing NHS test Scientists have found an existing gene test frequently used on the NHS can also shed light on whether a bowel cancer patient will respond positively or negatively to chemotherapy.
Researchers from The Institute of Cancer Research, Imperial College London and the Netherlands Cancer Institute have found the KRAS test can have use beyond its current function of predicting how patients will react to cancer drug cetuximab. The Independent
Jeremy Hunt told more NHS cash will end UK productivity crisis
Every extra 500 steps each a day slashes risk of heart attack 14%
- For older adults, every 500 additional steps taken daily associated with lower heart risk American Heart Association