Public health
England is close to eliminating hepatitis C after passing a key WHO treatment benchmark, NHS England has said. Global health leaders have set out plans to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030, while England has already surpassed the World Health Organization benchmark of treating 80 per cent of known cases. NHS England said the country is [...]
The NHS has been forced into an apology after conceding that engineers working for Palantir, the US data-analytics firm at the centre of its flagship data programme, have had access to identifiable information about individual patients - contradicting what NHS England had previously told the public. The admission relates to the Federated Data Platform (FDP), [...]
Amanda Jackson, Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer and Digital Inclusion Lead at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH), has been named an AireFest Unsung Hero in recognition of her work tackling digital exclusion and widening access to healthcare across the city. The Unsung Hero recognition celebrates individuals whose everyday actions make a meaningful difference to [...]
AI-generated doctors are attracting millions of TikTok views by sharing dubious health advice, raising concerns about risks to public safety. Experts said the accounts shared disproven cancer claims, fake products and unverified remedies while presenting themselves as medical professionals. Most of the AI-generated health content was posted by a growing number of deepfake influencer accounts [...]
Unregulated drugs sold online are creating a “wild west” in the UK, with experts warning deaths could follow without action. A leading endocrinology expert has warned that experimental peptides, anabolic steroids and other substances are being normalised through online sales and social media. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, [...]
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest organisation to announce that it will host an Elevate health tech showcase to inspire staff at all levels with the latest in technology and digital innovation. Health tech growth partner Highland launched the Elevate showcase series earlier this year to bring innovative technology [...]
Hospitals with higher empathy scores had better patient and staff outcomes, according to provisional research on NHS trusts in England. The study suggests trusts with higher empathy scores also spent less on agency staff, locums and consultants. Researchers created an empathy score for NHS trusts using publicly available information on organisational culture, leadership behaviour and [...]
Sixty five per cent of employers are advancing women’s health at work, but progress remains fragmented across sectors, a new report has revealed. The findings come from the [w]Health Employer Index, a benchmark assessing how organisations embed women’s health into workforce strategy, leadership and operations. The analysis was developed by global consultancy Kearney with the [...]
By G2 Speech In a market that is expanding with AI tools that promise exceptional results, it’s easy to assume all speech technology is created equal. But it isn’t. The difference between something that works and something that works reliably, clinically and at scale comes down to one thing. The data it was built on. [...]
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully completed a medical workforce planning programme, by pioneering a data-driven programme in partnership with workforce optimisation specialists, SARD. The comprehensive exercise has unlocked trust-wide clarity of capacity and demand to inform safe, efficient and sustainable patient care for over 420,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire. Over eight months, SARD [...]
