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Preventing poor health, use of tech and local care ‘key’ to NHS’ future, advisory group says

NHS Assembly’s report includes responses from more than 700 organisations and patient groups.

The Independent UK

At-home blood test that can test for 50 cancers ‘may be offered on NHS next summer’

Liquid biopsy could diagnose 5,000 potential cases each year if rolled out to a million people, say health chiefs

The Independent UK

Blood test to detect 50 types of cancer could be given to 1m people on NHS

Chief executive Amanda Pritchard says that if early results are successful it will be rolled out more widely next year

The Guardian - UK

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'We'll strike every month until next spring if we have to' - hundreds of doctors take to the streets of Manchester

If members vote to continue strikes, junior doctors will take to picket lines for three days a month, every month, until March 2024

Manchester Evening News

Junior doctors preparing to strike every month until next spring amid pay row

If members vote to continue strikes, junior doctors will take to picket lines for three days a month, every month, until March 2024

Evening Standard

Government commits to reducing number of national NHS targets

It comes in response to a recent review which found having too many targets makes them less effective.

The Independent UK

Junior doctors join picket lines over ‘unbearable’ working conditions

Members of the British Medical Association have launched a three-day strike over pay.

The Independent UK

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Hospital patients at 'serious risk' as heatwave hits during doctors strikes

NHS England issued a statement asking people to check on elderly friends and relatives and warning people with conditions such as asthma are at increased risk

Daily Mirror

Further uses of AI in the NHS are ‘on the horizon’, says chief

Amanda Pritchard said the NHS is in a ‘prime position’ to make AI-driven technology available quickly.

The Independent UK

Forty children admitted to hospital for vaping amid rising ‘epidemic’

NHS’s chief executive ‘really worried’ over rising rates of vaping among children

The Independent UK

Rise in number of children treated in hospital for vaping ‘worrying’ – NHS chief

The NHS said 40 children and young people were admitted to hospital in England last year due to ‘vaping-related disorders’.

The Independent UK

Junior doctors’ strikes pose ‘serious risk to patient safety’, NHS head says

Amanda Pritchard, NHS England’s chief executive, said the action ‘creates risk and upheaval’.

The Independent UK

NHS calls for retired consultants to help clear hospital wait lists

Recently retired doctors will be able to perform outpatient appointments via a new digital platform

The Independent UK

Smartphone camera lens technology to be used in skin cancer diagnoses

The camera lens is the size of a 50 pence piece and can attach to a smart phone.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Student doctors told: Skip university to plug NHS staff shortages

Doctors’ union the British Medical Association warn an increase in apprenticeships could jeopardise quality of medical training

The Guardian - UK

School-leavers could join NHS via apprenticeships in plan to fix staff shortages

Up to one in 10 doctors and a third of nurses could be trained through vocational path under NHS workforce plan

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands of doctors and nurses ‘to be trained as apprentices’

School-leavers are being encouraged to ‘learn while they earn’ as the NHS prepares to ramp up apprentice schemes.

The Independent UK

Funding and mental health staff retention go ‘hand-in-hand’ – NHS chief

NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard told MPs there is a direct link between mental health staff shortages and the funding available.

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Manchester Evening News

The George Cross awarded to the NHS following the pandemic is coming to Manchester - here is where you can see it

The medal was awarded to recognise the heroism of staff - and people will be able to view it up in close when it goes on display in the city next year

The Independent UK

NHS George Cross medal to go on tour

The service was awarded the medal to help mark the work performed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Guardian - UK

Barring skilled refugees from work in the UK is a travesty that must be solved

In a country short of doctors, engineers and other professionals, bureaucracy must not deny people the dignity of work

The Guardian - UK

Girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS

Teddi Shaw, from Northumberland, first recipient on health service of Libmeldy, world’s most expensive drug

The Independent UK

New plan to ‘fix’ emergency care unveiled as crisis engulfs NHS

The plan set out new measures for health services provided in patients’ homes

Evening Standard

UK must train more doctors and nurses, says NHS boss

Amanda Pritchard said “excellent” British candidates are being rejected from medical schools due to a lack of places

The Guardian - UK

NHS in England under more ‘extreme pressure’ than at height of pandemic

NHS England chief says service is ‘over-reliant’ on foreign staff and calls for universities to ‘ramp up’ training

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