CloserStill Media, organisers of Health Plus Care, taking place at ExCeL London on 26-27 April, are thrilled to announce that registration is now live. As part of Health Plus Care, there are three co-branded shows: The Healthcare Show, Digital Healthcare Show and The Residential & Home Care Show. The Health Plus Care show is the most significant and innovative UK event for healthcare professionals looking to revolutionise the healthcare and social care sectors. The Health Plus Care show is the ideal platform for you to talk about your successes, promote best practice and be a part of key d ..read more

Dr Tod Brindle, Global Medical Director for Mölnlycke, explains why delivering on the elective care recovery must not mean compromising on care quality, safety, or sustainability. More than 7 million people – or 1 in 8 people in England – are currently waiting for treatment on the NHS, and given the continuing number of missing referrals, the hidden backlog of care could be considerably larger. The pressure to deliver is now higher than ever. Behind these staggering statistics are real people’s stories. Every delayed surgery has its own consequences for a patient who cannot begin their recover ..read more

Hospital Times attended Digital Health Rewired 2023 this week, where combatting health inequalities received much of the focus. “1.5 million homes do not have internet access and approximately 10 million people lack basic digital skills,” announced Richard Stubbs, Vice Chair of the Academic Health Science Network, in his keynote address at Digital Health Rewired 2023. The panel, National policy on the table, saw Stubbs join Christopher El Badaoui, CEO of LVNDR Health and Catherine McClennan, Programme Director for Women’s Health and Maternity Services at Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care ..read more

NHS Property Services delivered £44.1m in cost efficiencies for the health service during 2021/22 against a target of £31.9m, as well as clearing outstanding shareholder loans of £98m to the Department of Health and Social Care.  NHS Property Services’ (NHSPS) 2021/22 annual report, published this month, has shown that the business exceeded its initial cost efficiency target by almost £14million and has now delivered a cumulative total of more than £250m in savings to the NHS since 2017.   According to the report, NHSPS, which owns and manages around 10 per cent of the NHS estate, de ..read more

A 2023 report on the Clinical Alarm Management Market by Future Market Insights, a global intelligence company, has named Tutum Medical’s Bedside Equipment Alarm Monitoring System (BEAMS) as a recent development in the market to watch. The BEAMS monitoring system, developed for and with Sheffield Children’s Hospital, is for single-bed patient rooms and four to six bay wards and enables nurses to significantly improve response times to critical bedside alarms. It is the only acoustic solution which listens for medical device alarms and notifies staff of the source and urgency of the alarm. The ..read more

New report looks into the trends and innovations driving change and influencing the facilities management and cleaning industries. On 22nd February, organisers of The Cleaning Show, which returns to ExCeL, London from 14-16 March, revealed its 2023 Trends Report, exploring where the cleaning and hygiene industries are heading, the latest innovations and trends, as well as the challenges affecting the cleaning and FM industries.    With insights from leading experts representing industry bodies, suppliers and operators, the report identifies five trends that will drive and disrup ..read more

Recruitment, training and sustainability are among the notable trends set to be discussed at The Cleaning Show 2023, which returns to the ExCeL, London, from 14-16 March 2023. Under the banner ‘The Cleaning Sector in 2023 – Driving Change’, the full line-up of this year’s conference programme is now available online, highlighting the topics and speakers set to encourage learning, discussion and debate around the key topics facing a modern cleaning and hygiene sector, buoyed by greater public and political recognition earned during the Covid-19 crisis. Expert speakers from across the sector – i ..read more

One year on from the publication of the NHS elective recovery plan, the IFS has warned that waiting lists are unlikely to fall this year. New analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found that NHS waiting times targets are unable to be met this year, and that overall waiting lists are likely to flatline in 2023 before finally falling in 2024. The NHS Elective Recovery Plan was published in February 2022 as the health service began to recover from Covid-19. Its headline ambition was the aim to increase NHS elective activity to 30 per cent above pre-pandemic levels by 2024-25. A ..read more

Almost 9,000 ambulance workers were on strike yesterday (Monday 6th February), while the GMB and Unite took strike action across 9 regions in England – the most NHS settings ever affected by a single day of industrial action. Following Monday’s unprecedented strike action, nurses with the RCN are striking today (7th February), with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy striking on 9th February and the ambulance union, Unison, striking on 10th February. This means that Wednesday (8th February) will be the only day this week on which no strike action is taking place. Official figures show that ..read more

Five new mammography systems have been installed across community and hospital settings in the Portsmouth area to provide extra breast screening capacity post-Covid. Image caption: [Left to right] Clare Fouracre – Senior Radiographer at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Victoria Bremner – Breast Superintendent Radiographer, Shelley Mitchell – Mammography Product Specialist at Siemens Healthineers, Rebecca Church – Consultant Mammographer, Yvette Vokes – Radiographic Departmental Assistant, Dr Robert Dickens – Consultant Radiologist with the MAMMOMAT Revelation at Portsmouth Hospitals ..read more