Blood pressure checks could save the NHS £850 million…
Coinciding with Blood Pressure UK’s ‘Know Your Numbers Week’, newly published research from the leading charity focused on the condition has revealed that one in three people are living with high blood pressure, and five million are left undiagnosed. Furthermore, the research also suggests that people residing in the most deprived locations of the country […]
Industry Spotlight: Care staff are ‘rightly anxious’ about merger implications, says UNISON…
One of the largest trade unions in the UK, UNISON, has publicly warned care industry executives that any outsourcing of support service functions will ‘likely to lead to opposition’ from its members, after NHS Improvement instructed all trusts located in England to create plans with neighbouring trusts for the merger of support and pathology services. An effort to reduce the NHS providers’ £550 million deficit for […]
RCN warns thousands of nurses in North West ‘at risk’ due to Brexit…
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) – considered to be ‘the voice of nursing’ across the UK – has revealed that, with many North West trusts struggling to recruit British nationals after a lengthy pay freeze in the NHS, the RCN estimates that recruitment from the EU is now at its highest level for 20 […]
