One pill with a tiny camera inside could spot cancer and help cut waiting lists at Northampton General Hospital Doctors at Northampton General Hospital are using a tiny camera inside a 'pill' to help diagnose bowel problems.
Patients swallow a capsule only slightly bigger than a regular pain relief tablet, which then sends back up to 50,000 images of internal organs rather than needing to go through invasive procedures. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Chart of the week: How do ambulance handover delays vary across England? Ambulance handover delays are when an ambulance has arrived at a hospital with a patient, but the transfer of their care to hospital staff is delayed. Handover delays of over 30 minutes have been more common across England this winter than in previous years, but how does the situation vary in different parts of the country? Nuffield Trust
Boris Johnson's plan to scrap Covid isolation rules was 'bit of a surprise,' admits Northamptonshire's interim health chief Health chiefs in Northamptonshire admit Boris Johnson announcement about scrapping Covid self-isolation rules later this month came as 'a bit of a surprise.'
John Ashton, the county's interim director of public health, confessed: "In recent days and weeks, things have been moved forward faster than many of us anticipated." Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Children and young people’s mental health: COVID-19 and the road ahead Mental health conditions have become more common among children and young people. Here, we explore what we know about the state of children and young people’s mental health services using openly available administrative and survey data. The Health Foundation
The long goodbye? Exploring rates of staff leaving the NHS and social care In this explainer, Billy Palmer and Lucina Rolewicz take stock of what is known and not known about the numbers of staff leaving NHS and social care roles, and the reasons given for moving on. Nuffield Trust
Latest Covid data shows where in UK infections are rising and falling Covid infections are rising across the South and East of England, but falling in the North, new figures show.
Around one in 19 people in private households in England had Covid-19 in the week to 5 February, or 2.8 million people – up from one in 20 during the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said. The Independent
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