Charity relaunches with fresh approach to tackle AMR crisis
- A national charity dedicated to supporting patients impacted by resistant infections has relaunched with a new name and new approach to tackling the growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis.
- AMR Action UK, formerly known as Antibiotic Research UK, has rebranded – placing a stronger emphasis on strengthening the ability of patients to influence actions that could protect people from AMR.
- As part of this, the charity has announced the introduction of four ‘national patient insight panels’, representing the four countries of the UK.
Growth in NHS appointments continues to slow under Labour despite Starmer’s claims of success
- Sir Keir Starmer and his health secretary, Wes Streeting, often trumpet the number of extra NHS appointments since they took office as an example of their success, but the figures tell a different story.
- The prime minister today highlighted that four million additional appointments have been made in their first nine months in office – overachieving on their target of two million in a year.
- But Sky News and fact-checkers at Full Fact have previously shown that the number of extra appointments is slowing under Labour, and our analysis of the latest figures shows that this trend has continued.
Going the distance: reimagining health across the 100-year life in Europe
- Life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past century, turning the 100-year life – once a distant milestone – into a reality for many Europeans.
- Long lives are a significant public health achievement. They bring opportunities, not only for people and their families to pursue the lives they want, but also for societies to unlock economic opportunities.
- These include not only longer working lives, but the chance for citizens to carry on caring, volunteering and actively participating in the community for longer. Yet the extent to which these opportunities can be realised depends heavily on one factor: health.
Cancer screening wait ‘too long’, survivor says
- A woman who survived cervical cancer said she was concerned about changes to cervical screening that have come into effect.
- Cervical screening tests are currently offered to 25-to-49-year-olds every three years. That is now being extended to five-year intervals. The time between tests for those aged 50 to 64 is already five years.
- The NHS said research had shown screening every five years was as safe as every three years, and it wanted to spare people appointments they did not need.
HORIBA opens new Analytical Solution Plaza to support UK science and research
- HORIBA has expanded its worldwide network of Analytical Solution Plazas with the opening in the UK of its latest advanced technology centre.
- The Plaza will be a resource for all of HORIBA’s business fields in the UK, giving customers and the wider UK scientific community ready access to the company’s breadth of advanced technological capabilities and scientific expertise.
- It will house a broad range of HORIBA’s cutting-edge technologies which can support an extensive array of analytical applications from biopharmaceuticals, cell and gene therapy, and clinical diagnostics, through to Net Zero and clean energy, the environment and climate change, plus advanced manufacturing and materials.
