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The King’s Fund comments on NHS performance data
The King's Fund has commented on the monthly NHS performance data on accident and emergency, referral to treatment and diagnostics which shows the impact...
Long-term COVID-19 symptoms in patients and doctors
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Primary care networks and mental health services post COVID-19
Joint working between primary care networks and providers of mental health services must accelerate if the NHS is to help the huge increase in...
Common chronic pain treatments ‘can do more harm than good’
A number of commonly used drug treatments for chronic primary pain have little or no evidence that they work and shouldn’t be prescribed, NICE...
Roll out of rapid coronavirus tests ahead of winter
Millions of rapid coronavirus tests will be rolled out to hospitals, care homes and labs across the UK to increase testing capacity ahead of...
Accelerated use of electronic prescribing
Deborah Evans, Managing Director of Pharmacy Complete, looks at the instruction to stay at home, GP surgeries closing their doors and consumers rethinking how...
New study into link between IBD and colorectal cancers
In a new study, researchers have compared diseased colon tissue with healthy tissue to better understand how IBD is linked to an increased risk of...
Bridging the gap in heart failure awareness
The World Heart Federation (WHF) and AstraZeneca have published a new Heart Failure Gap Report bridging the gap in heart failure awareness.
While heart failure...
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Virtual clinical trial recruits 67% faster led by NIHR Patient Recruitment Centre
A collaboration between one of the NIHR’s new National Patient Recruitment Centres (NPRCs) and UK sponsor company Enteromed has led to rapid recruitment to...
Cost of Russian Sputnik V vaccine for international markets to be less than $10...
The cost of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than $10 per dose starting from February 2021, making it...
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