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Media Monitoring: 25th February – 3rd March

Wes Streeting: Labour’s reforms will save the struggling NHS from its current crisis The Shadow Health Secretary has pledged to Labour will double medical school places, paid for by abolishing non-doms He also wants to cut unnecessary appointments through better access to specialist clinics, akin to sexual health clinics, to free up GP appointments   NHS COVID-19 app saved estimated…
Ben Kemp
March 3, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 18th – 24th February

Innovative new tech projects awarded funding to help veterans healthcare £5 million awarded to 22 projects to drive forward cutting-edge treatments and technologies to support veterans’ healthcare The funding will help spur innovation, ensure that treatments are informed by the latest research and developments in clinical care, and bring the best of UK science and technology to the forefront of…
Natalie Creaney
February 24, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 11th – 17th February

19 additional community diagnostic centres (CDCs) to open this year 19 new community diagnostic centres which will perform 1.1 million tests, checks and scans every year set to open later this year New data shows 92 operational CDCs have already significantly bolstered NHS capacity as part of the most ambitious catch-up plan in NHS history, delivering an additional 3 million…
Ben Kemp
February 16, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 4th – 10th February

NHS Digital and NHS England complete merger NHS England and NHS Digital have today legally merged in the first step towards creating a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all The move brings the NHS’ national data and technology expertise into one organisation, creating a closer link between the collection and analysis…
Natalie Creaney
February 10, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 27th January – 3rd February

Lateral flow test engineering and lessons learned from COVID-19 Only 0.4% of the 3 billion COVID-19 tests performed through to mid-2022 were conducted in low-income regions, raising ethical concerns and constraining our collective ability to respond to a pandemic Key barriers to COVID-19 LFT development and adoption include lack of access to well characterised samples, limited accuracy, lack of connectivity,…
Natalie Creaney
February 3, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 21st – 27th January

UK landmark genomic partnership with Thailand to unite against health threats The UK is set to boost its genomics expertise to deliver better healthcare through a landmark memorandum of understanding signed with Thailand Thailand is a world-leader in life sciences and genomics and plans to share knowledge with the UK to help prevent, diagnose and treat major diseases that burden…
Ben Kemp
January 27, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 14th – 20th January

A young girl’s legacy: pioneering blood test can help treat rare childhood cancer A charity Alice’s Arc, set up in memory of a child who passed away from cancer, has seen remarkable results from a pilot study of a blood test that it funded The simple blood test could soon be used to determine the severity of rhabdomyosarcoma, the best…
Natalie Creaney
January 20, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 7th – 13th January

Prostate cancer diagnosis ‘lottery’ sees regions lagging far behind London Scottish men are three times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer late than men in London There is also a significant north-south divide, with all of the other poorest performing areas being outside of Southern England The figures, commissioned by Prostate Cancer UK, were gathered between 2014 –…
Natalie Creaney
January 13, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 10th – 16th December

Government delivers on pledge for £50 million motor neurone disease research funding The full £50 million pledged for motor neurone disease (MND) research is being placed into the hands of researchers as quickly as possible with further awards made this week £29.5 million of government funding to be invested immediately through specialist research centres and partnerships with leading researchers Biomedical…
Ben Kemp
December 16, 2022
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Media Monitoring: 3rd – 9th December

A new biomarker for detecting glymphatic system insufficiency University of Barcelona researchers have discovered that malfunctions in the glymphatic system can be detected via wasteosomes They show evidence that increased wasteosomes or starch bodies are a result of chronic failure of the glymphatic system They found that brain regions which had the highest number of wasteosomes were often related to…
Ben Kemp
December 8, 2022
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