DH: Secondary school staff get mental health 'first aid' training
NHS England kicks off international search for ground-breaking patient-care innovations – (NHS England’s Chief Scientific Officer’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership winners announced)
MHRA: All types of metal-on-metal hip implants need regular review
NAO: Investigation: clinical correspondence handling at NHS Shared Business Services ~ Patients Association condemns NHS mail blunder as scandalous
CQC writes to care homes, hospices & independent hospitals to encourage them to review their fire safety checks
NHS Improvement: Celebrating the impact allied health professionals are having on health, care & well-being
NHS Digital: Report on transition of care between childhood & adulthood for people with diabetes – (NHS Digital: Antidepressants were the area with largest increase in prescription items in 2016)
Patients Association responds to rising dissatisfaction with the NHS
NAO: Mental health in prisons
BCS Launches Blueprint To Help NHS Improve Cyber Security
Food Standards Agency: New research on preventing the spread of norovirus
ScotGov: Funding for cancer services – (ScotGov: Review into adverse events in maternity ~ ScotGov: More trainee nurses & midwives ~ ScotGov: Increasing organ & tissue donation ~ ScotGov: New dementia strategy unveiled ~ NHS Health Scotland welcomes new Dementia Strategy ~ ScotGov: Exercise during pregnancy ~ ScotGov: Medical training in Scotland remains popular)
NHS Health Scotland: Achieving Inclusive Growth for Scotland event
WAG: New proposals to strengthen health & care quality and governance in Wales – (WAG: People who suffer out of hospital cardiac arrest must be given the best chance of survival” ~ WAG: UK CMOs issue advice for health professionals on physical exercise during pregnancy ~ WAG: FM in Gibraltar to discuss common Brexit priorities)
Welsh NHS Confederation respond to the publication of the Health, Social Care & Sport Committee report on medical recruitment
EU News: EMA recommends that Symbioflor 2 can continue to be used for irritable bowel syndrome – (Two new medicines recommended for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C ~ Antimicrobial Resistance: EC steps us the fight with new Action Plan)
CSJ: Governing isn’t just legislating. There’s work to do
IPPR: New law needed to make a success of STPs
Link to latest news from the British Heart Foundation ~ Link to latest news from Cancer Research UK ~ Link to latest news from Diabetes UK ~ Link to latest news from Age UK
Demos: Sheltered housing saves the NHS and social care services £486m+ per year
Homeless Link: Supported housing funding changes – where are we now?
NICE: More people who can get the flu jab for free should be vaccinated – (NICE launches a competition for developers of healthcare technologies ~ NICE: Cancer Drugs Fund driving early access to promising new treatments ~ NICE: 'No idling' zones can help to protect vulnerable people from air pollution, says NICE)
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