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  The Nursing and Midwifery Council today announced that from the 1st April 2019, the costs of test for overseas applicants will be reduced by more than 20%. The CBT will reduce from £130 to £90, whilst the OSCE will … Continued

Leading figures in health are celebrating ten years of a checklist for surgical teams which has saved countless lives and improved outcomes for patients in England and around the world. The Surgical Safety Checklist is a simple tool designed to … Continued

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The NHS Long Term Plan, published today, will save almost half a million more lives with practical action on major killer conditions and investment in world class, cutting edge treatments including genomic tests for every child with cancer. The blueprint … Continued

  All patients across England can now access general practice appointments in the evening and weekends, NHS England has announced today. The extended access means that patients will be able to see a doctor, nurse or other member of the … Continued

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The government is set to relax its immigration rules to let more foreign doctors come to Britain to help tackle the NHS’s widespread shortages of medics. Ministers have agreed to significantly expand the 1,500 doctors a year allowed to come and … Continued

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  NMC will consider proposed changes to the requirements for nurses and midwives from outside the UK taking the International English Language Test System (IELTS). Under the proposal, nurses and midwives will be required to continue to achieve a minimum overall … Continued

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Monitoring cancer can often be an intrusive and exhausting process for patients. But with Brigham Young University chemistry professor Ryan Kelly’s new research, there is hope for a simpler way: No more biopsies. No more spinal taps. Instead, patients may … Continued

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Tens of thousands of people with Type 1 diabetes across the country will benefit from life changing glucose monitors on the NHS. The wearable sensor does away with the need for inconvenient and sometimes painful finger prick blood tests by relaying … Continued

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A price-hiking meat tax could prevent about 220,000 deaths and save more than £30.7 billion in healthcare costs around the world each year, according to a new study.The global benefits of a meat tax included a 16 per cent reduction … Continued

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  Cancer patients could be spared unnecessary chemotherapy – and its side effects – by a new blood test that is in clinical trials at more than 40 hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. Read more here: 1,232 total views, no … Continued

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James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing ways to unleash the immune system more effectively against cancers. Read more here:

Nurses and midwives trained outside the EU will be allowed to apply to come and work in the UK immediately after qualifying, following changes by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Read more here:

  Researchers have identified four types of neurons in the peripheral auditory system, three of which are new to science. The analysis of these cells can lead to new therapies for various kinds of hearing disorders, such as tinnitus and … Continued

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The landmark deal means young people with a form of leukaemia are set to receive CAR-T (a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell) therapy within weeks. It represents one of the fastest funding approvals in the 70 year history of the NHS. … Continued

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has confirmed that a NHS App will be gradually rolled out across England from December 2018. The NHS App will be a simple way for patients in England to connect to … Continued

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The landmark deal means young people with a form of leukaemia are set to receive CAR-T (a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell) therapy within weeks. It represents one of the fastest funding approvals in the 70 year history of the NHS. … Continued

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Unless there is clarity in the emergency room on what defines a heart attack, patients with chest pain may be wrongly labelled with heart attack and not receive the correct treatment.  Read more here: 511 total views, no views today

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It may be possible in the future to screen patients for Alzheimer’s disease using an eye exam called optical coherence tomography angiography. Physicians currently use PET scans and lumbar punctures to help diagnose Alzheimer’s, but they are expensive and invasive. … Continued

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The UK Government has announced proposals to introduce a new system of consent for organ and tissue donation in England to tackle the shortage of donors and help those waiting for life-saving transplants. The plans, which are expected to come … Continued

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You may have seen someone on the train or street drinking bottles of refreshing lime & lemon water and now you are wondering how does this green and yellow fruit improve my wellbeing? Does it really have a material benefit? … Continued

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July marks the month when the NHS turns 70 since its birth in 1948.  *The NHS in England deals with more than one million patients every 36 hours and employs 1.2 million people in England. The NHS has delivered huge … Continued

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The Home Office has now agreed to exclude non-EEA doctors and nurses from the Tier 2 visa cap. The UK Health and Social Care Secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said that overseas staff have been a vital part of the NHS … Continued

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A team of Surgeons at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust  have used 3D printing technology from Stratasys to determine whether it was feasible to complete a kidney transplant for a 2 year old patient. The technology enabled surgeons … Continued

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A team of MIT researchers may have found a revolutionary solution to treating glioblastoma multiforme using nanoparticles. Preliminary mouse model trials have shown that a delivery system consisting of drug combination within the core and outer shell of a particle … Continued

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