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Media Monitoring: 16 – 22 September

UK announces “transformational” support to boost global health at UNGA new UK government funding will help tackle future pandemics, boost research into vaccines and reduce deaths from infectious diseases and end preventable deaths of mothers, new-borns and children package shows commitment to helping achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a set of key targets to make the world a better…
Ben Kemp
September 21, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 9 – 15 September

NHS England have published performance statistics for July 2023. The Monthly Provider Cancer Waiting Times statistics for July 2023 can be found here. 77.5% of people were seen by a specialist within two weeks of an urgent referral for suspected cancer. This is a decrease from June 2023, which was 80.5%. 91.8% of people treated began first definitive treatment within…
Dawn
September 15, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 2nd – 8th September

  UK government sets out AI Safety Summit ambitions Five objectives of the AI Safety Summit to be progressed shared by UK Government UK will work closely with global partners to make frontier AI safe, and to ensure nations and citizens globally can realise its benefits AI Safety Summit will bring key countries, leading technology organisations, academia and civil society together   Joint Statement of…
Ben Kemp
September 8, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 19 – 25 August

More investment needed to ensure ICS success, health leaders say A new report has found underinvestment is hampering the progress of ICSs. Staff pressures, financial constraints, issues in the social care sector – alongside the continued disruption from industrial action – were identified as the main barriers to success by ICS leaders. The health leaders polled were, however, supportive of…
Ben Kemp
August 25, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 12 – 18 August

Scaling innovation within healthcare systems: practical considerations This guide comes in response to member feedback on challenges to innovation in the NHS. It provides practical pointers for innovators and system decision-makers on how to successfully adopt and scale proven innovations. The guide has been endorsed by the AHSN Network. This guide is based on extensive research and interviews with NHS…
Ben Kemp
August 18, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 5 – 11 August

The Monthly Diagnostics data for May 2023 can be found her: The total number of patients waiting six weeks or more from referral for one of the 15 key diagnostic tests at the end of June 2023 was 403,100. This was 25.2% of the total number of patients waiting at the end of the month. Nationally, the operational standard of…
Ben Kemp
August 11, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 15 – 21 July

UK signs treaty to join vast Indo-Pacific trade group as new data shows major economic benefits Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch formally signed the treaty confirming the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – the Indo-Pacific trade bloc now worth £12 trillion in GDP – in New Zealand last week To celebrate this…
Dawn
July 21, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 17 – 23 June

New 10-year cancer strategy for NHS Scotland to improve survival rates and flatten health inequalities Bringing down late stage cancer diagnoses and levelling out health inequalities are central to the new 10-year cancer strategy published by the Scottish Government. Their figures suggest that more than two in five (42%) cancers are caught at stages three and four; the plan aims…
Dawn
June 23, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 10 -16 June

4 million checks, tests and scans carried out by CDCs Across the country, community diagnostic centres (CDCs) have delivered over 4 million additional checks for a range of conditions from cancer to heart or lung disease - helping to cut waiting lists Eight new CDCs to open, in addition to the 108 already delivering lifesaving checks   England on track…
Ben Kemp
June 16, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 3 June – 9 June

NHS Diagnostic Waiting Times and Activity Data - April 2023 Monthly Report A total of 2,016,200 diagnostic tests were undertaken in April 2023. This is an increase of 165,300 from April 2022. The total number of patients waiting six weeks or more from referral for one of the 15 key diagnostic tests at the end of April 2023 was 430,800.…
Dawn
June 9, 2023