Tens of thousands of people in the UK have sought to offer blood since Wednesday after the National Health Service (NHS) issued an amber alert over low supplies. The alert was triggered after stock levels were predicted to fall below what would be needed for two days, meaning hospitals would need to delay non-urgent elective…
NHS Figures Show Nearly 1 in 10 Children Now Vape in England
Leading doctors have warned that generations of children could become hooked on nicotine after new figures show an increasing number of teenagers are being tempted to smoke cheap sweet-flavoured e-cigarettes, even though their long-term effects are still unknown. In a report released on Tuesday, new figures from a survey conducted for NHS Digital found that…
British Vaccine Passport Fixed After Glitch Leaves Travellers Panicking
A technical issue that left British travellers seething as they could not access their NHS COVID Pass to check into flights has now been fixed. The NHS COVID Pass is also known as the vaccine passport. On Thursday, users trying to access proof of their COVID-19 vaccination status via the NHS App and website found that…
Universal Mask Wearing Rules Are Being Re-introduced in English Hospitals
NHS organisations have started to reintroduce masks in all clinical settings even though national rules have largely been scrapped. The news follows junior health minister Lord Kamall telling the House of Lords that the extortionate free lateral flow testing scheme may return as well as prospect of mandatory masks if the rising number of cases has…
NHS Patients Will Be Monitored in Their Own Homes Under New Reforms
Five hundred thousand people will use digital tools to manage their long-term health conditions in their own homes, under the British government’s transformative programme. In an announcement on Wednesday, the government announced that a major chunk of healthcare is to go online in England under a new digitisation plan. They say this is to clear…
Some English Hospitals Telling Patients to Keep Wearing Face Masks Despite Restrictions Being Dropped
National rules on mask-wearing in GP surgeries and hospitals have largely been scrapped under new guidance in England, but some NHS trusts are insisting that patients keep wearing masks. The Telegraph reports that several NHS hospitals have called on patients and staff to continue to wear masks and face coverings on their sites. The National…
British Health Secretary Says ‘Sex Matters’ After NHS Removes ‘Women’ From Cancer Guidance
Health Secretary Savid Javid has said that the word “women” should not be removed from ovarian cancer guidance, after it was found that the NHS had “desexed” some of its main sites on female medical conditions, by using “inclusive” gender-neutral language that excludes the words “female” and “women.” The health secretary told Sky News, “You won’t…
NHS Removes the Word ‘Women’ From Main Online Guidance Pages on Cervical Cancers
The NHS has “desexed” its guidance on female medical conditions, by using “inclusive” gender-neutral language that excludes the words “female” and “women.” The Times of London reported that the main NHS web pages on ovarian, womb, and cervical cancers no longer refer to women. The National Health Service is the umbrella term for the publicly…
UK: NHS ‘Marking Own Homework’ Over Complaints, Say Researchers
Britain’s NHS complaints procedures have been likened to “asking hospitals to grade their own homework”, in research by a leading London university. Researchers set out to examine the national policies for handling complaints within the health service, where some 200,000 complaints are made each year. Complaints are a “critical source” to help drive improvements, with…
Drill Bits and Scalpels Left Inside Britain’s NHS Patients, Data Shows
There have been nearly 100 cases of a foreign object—including drill bits—left inside NHS patients by mistake, according to a new analysis. Some 407 “Never Events”—things so serious they should never happen—were recorded in the NHS in England from April 2021 until March 2022, figures examined by the PA news agency show. This is the…
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