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3 weeks ago | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Julie Griffiths
New radiotherapy machines that will deliver up to 27,500 additional treatments per year are being rolled out across England. The Government has paid for linear accelerator (LINAC) machines, which will be rolled out at 28 Trusts from August (see below). Replacing older machines will save as many as 13,000 appointments from being lost to equipment breakdown. The upgraded tech can cut the rounds of radiotherapy needed and, in some cases, halve the number of hospital visits a patient needs to make.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
The UK has adopted a new pandemic agreement aimed at protecting the NHS, the economy, and the British public from future global health threats, the government has announced. The World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement provides a framework for countries to take collective action to prevent and respond to pandemics.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
The NHS public health programme, Healthier You, has supported an additional 166,360 adults in England to address their diabetes risk in the past year. The Healthier You programme helps people lose weight and make lifestyle changes to stop or delay them from developing Type 2 diabetes. Since it was launched in 2016, more than 900,000 adults at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes have used the programme.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
New radiotherapy machines that will deliver up to 27,500 additional treatments per year are being rolled out across England. The government has paid for linear accelerator (LINAC) machines, which will be rolled out at 28 hospitals from August (see box). Replacing older machines will save as many as 13,000 appointments from being lost to equipment breakdown. The upgraded tech can cut the rounds of radiotherapy needed and, in some cases, halve the number of hospital visits a patient needs to make.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has announced Ian Green OBE has been appointed as chair of its integrated care board (ICB). Mr Green has been chair of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust since February 2023. He has held non-executive director posts within the NHS over the past 15 years, including at the South-Central Ambulance Trust Board.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
The Government should ‘supersize’ the Volunteer to Career scheme to address workforce shortages in the NHS, say leading health think tanks. National charity Helpforce, which is piloting the scheme, said the programme had the potential to help fill around 23,600 vacancies in frontline healthcare roles and related study placements in England by the end of the current Parliament. The Volunteer to Career scheme helps people transition from volunteering into frontline healthcare careers.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalhealthcare.com | Julie Griffiths
The areas to receive 13 new bone scanners, expected to deliver an additional 29,000 scans each year, have been announced by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The equipment had been promised as part of the Government’s elective reform plan earlier this year and the DHSC has now announced the 13 areas in England that would receive the new DEXA scanners.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
NHS Kent and Medway has recruited a people and communities champion to ensure the experiences and views of patients are always at the heart of integrated care board (ICB) decision-making. Bali Rodgers, who has more than 25 years’ experience in leading community organisations, joined the ICB as an independent lived experience and community champion at the start of May.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
Construction of the £12m Northwood and Pinner Health Centre, which is under North West London ICB, has begun, with the state-of-the-art facility set to open in summer 2026. The project is a refurbishment and extension of a locally listed building, transforming it into a modern 1,500 sqm health centre. Originally constructed in the 1920s and used as a cottage hospital during the war, the building had been vacant since the late 2000s.
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1 month ago | 
healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths
The areas to receive 13 new bone scanners, expected to deliver an additional 29,000 scans each year, have been announced by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The equipment had been promised as part of the government’s elective reform plan earlier this year. Yesterday, DHSC announced the 13 areas in England that would receive the new DEXA scanners.
