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The UK healthcare community came together once again for two full days of professional development at the Acute & General Medicine Conference 2022, reaffirming the conference’s position as the largest
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Hundreds of hospital beds are being filled by flu patients, a ten-fold increase on last year, prompting fears the NHS faces a “triple-demic” this winter. NHS data shows an average of 344 hospital beds
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With NHS England’s winter plan due in a few days, Dr Layla McCay outlines the steps that must be taken to minimise patient harm and overcome current challenges, all while taking the present ‘political
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In 2019 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was declared as one of the top ten public health threats by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Antimicrobial resistance will occur gradually and naturally over
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Can you tell me about yourself and your job role? I’m Mike Blaber, I’m a consultant in palliative Medicine and I work in Sandwell and West Birmingham (SWBH) NHS trust, we have a team of doctors, CNS
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Fatigue is a long-standing issue within the NHS and the pandemic has most certainly exacerbated this however, it is not issue that can be ignored. In a survey produced by the Medical Defence Union one
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Acute & General Medicine returns on the 15th – 16th November 2022 at Excel London as the UK’s largest and most cost – effective training opportunity for all doctors involved in emergency, acute and ad
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Recurrent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a huge impact on healthcare workers, and Medical Protection has called for more to be done.
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A new coalition of nearly 80 organisations, brought together by the Royal College of Physicians, has been launched to press for urgent action to address health inequalities.
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The government should divert the hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on the failing centralised privatised COVID-19 national test and trace service into local public health services.
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Often times, people find 'how are you' to be quite confronting, or too direct to open up about how they are truly feeling.
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Educated 65-year-olds and above use considerably more NHS outpatient care than their less educated peers.
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Podcasts are the perfect solution for swamped doctors stay up-to-date and maybe even learn a thing or two.
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Leading surgeons are calling for hospital beds to be ring-fenced for planned operations, to avoid a ‘tsunami of cancellations’ during the second wave of Covid-19.
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A newly-developed tool to help health professionals calculate the biological risk of an individual’s exposure to COVID-19 aims to help keep people safer.
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The timing of the dissolution of Public Health England by the health secretary has been strongly criticised by health experts.
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The UK’s coronavirus vaccine is safe, causes few side effects, and induces strong immune responses in both parts of the immune system, the early stage trial shows.
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Doctor Doctor, who should I follow?! It's important to surround yourself with people who support you in real life, and online.
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We’ve been looking at meditation as a way to achieve this moment of calm amongst the madness.
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Life at a distance had just begun to feel routine, but just as quickly as lockdown restrictions were implemented, they are beginning to lift across the country.
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Bringing a lunch to work not only reduces your spending, but reduces waste!
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It will take many NHS medical specialties up to a year or more to recover to pre-Coronavirus activity levels, research reveals
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The Government does not have a clear strategy to acquire and distribute the PPE required to protect clinical and care workers in a second wave of coronavirus.