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The UK Government announced new trade measures to support Ukraine following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These include: The removal of tariffs on all goods from Ukraine, providing economic support; New export ban on products and technology that Russia could use to repress the people of Ukraine. These could include interception and monitoring equipment; These tariff measures are part of broad…

The Health and Care Bill has finally been made law in the biggest shake-up of the NHS since the Lansley Reforms in 2012. The Bill has many implications which affect several different areas of the UK’s health landscape and fundamentally changes the principles by which the NHS seeks to deliver care to patients. This is chiefly derived from the increased…

UK-Indonesian Partnership announced, life sciences and research namechecked The UK and Indonesia together intend to:  Strengthen health systems, leveraging research and development to health and life sciences innovations, and better preventing, detecting and responding to infectious diseases through an enhanced Indonesia-UK Health Partnership Build on existing academic collaboration to increase research and development (R&D) programmes in life sciences and technology…

The NHS is set to miss two critical targets in tackling AMR – as outlined in a five-year AMR action plan unveiled by the government in 2019. The targets expected to be missed are: reducing the number of three gram-negative bacteria from bloodstream infections in healthcare settings by 25% by March this year, and 50% by 2024. Current figures show…

A new Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England has been recruited and will support the Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty. Dr Thomas Waite has been placed in the Deputy CMO role, replacing Professor Jonathan Van-Tam who stepped down on 31 March 2022. Among Dr Waite’s responsibilities will be emergency response and preparedness, infectious diseases, vaccines and therapeutics. During the…

Mobile testing trucks have been travelling up and down the country to improve early lung cancer diagnosis, with 600 people receiving potentially life-saving early diagnoses so far. Evidence so far has shown a significant rise in early lung cancer diagnosis across the population. The community scheme, which forms part of the NHS Targeted Lung Health Check Programme, has diagnosed patients…