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• Nurse bailed again over 17 baby deaths at Cheshire hospital

  14-06-2019 12:24
  
  A nurse who was arrested for the second time as part of an ongoing investigation into baby deaths at a neonatal unit in Cheshire has been bailed.
  
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• Statement to Parliament: Tobacco & Vapes Bill Second Reading Opening Speech

  16-04-2024 22:24 via gov.uk
  
  As delivered by Rt Hon Victoria Atkins MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
  
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• Press release: Government review to create a more open healthcare system

  16-04-2024 19:13 via gov.uk
  
  A new call for evidence launched today aims to capture and consider views about how the duty of candour is honoured, monitored and enforced.
  
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• Open call for evidence: Duty of candour review

  16-04-2024 12:10 via gov.uk
  
  Call for evidence seeking views on the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers in England.
  
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• News story: MPs to vote on landmark Bill to create Smokefree generation

  16-04-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  MPs to vote on legislation to create first smoke-free generation, protecting young people turning 15 this year or younger from harms of smoking
  
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• Speech: Senior nurses and midwives call for action on smoking and vaping

  16-04-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  The Chief Nursing Officers and Senior Midwives of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have spoken out in support of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
  
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• Speech: Senior nurses & midwives call for action on smoking and vaping

  16-04-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  The Chief Nursing Officers and Senior Midwives of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have spoken out in support of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
  
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• Speech: Chief Medical Officer for England on the tobacco and vapes bill

  16-04-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  Professor Sir Chris Whitty writes for The Guardian on smoking addiction and MPs historic opportunity to vote on the tobacco and vapes bill.
  
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• Impact assessment: Medical examiners and death certification reform: summary of impact

  15-04-2024 18:15 via gov.uk
  
  Update on the potential impact of the introduction of medical examiners and death certification reform in England and Wales.
  
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• Press release: Causes of death to be scrutinised in revamp of death certificates

  15-04-2024 15:19 via gov.uk
  
  To strengthen safeguards, medical examiners will look at the cause of death in all cases that haven’t been referred to the coroner.
  
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• Press release: AI to help keep people in work through £1.5 million investment in occupational health

  14-04-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Reforms to occupational health services will be shaped through a £1.5m innovation fund, as the government continues its drive to tackle in work sickness and boost economic activity using new technology and artificial intelligence.
  
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• Press release: £1.5 Million investment to improve in-work health services as part of government drive to tackle inactivity

  14-04-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  Reforms to occupational health services will be shaped through a £1.5m innovation fund, as the government continues its drive to tackle in work sickness and boost economic activity using new technology and artificial intelligence.
  
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• Press release: Diagnostic checks rolled out to 160 sites under CDC programme

  11-04-2024 01:30 via gov.uk
  
  Community Diagnostic Centre sites have already delivered over 7 million tests, checks and scans to patients across England.
  
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• News story: Government confirms scope of Essex mental health inquiry

  10-04-2024 15:03 via gov.uk
  
  Department publishes terms of reference for statutory inquiry following deaths of NHS mental health inpatients in Essex
  
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• Guidance: Lampard Inquiry: terms of reference

  10-04-2024 14:00 via gov.uk
  
  The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) will examine deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
  
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• Policy paper: Medical technology strategy: one year on

  09-04-2024 13:25 via gov.uk
  
  Achievements made since the launch of the medtech strategy and the next steps to boost the adoption of medical technology in the NHS.
  
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• Guidance: Medical technology innovation classification framework

  09-04-2024 13:25 via gov.uk
  
  Outlines the aim, scope and definitions of the medical technology innovation classification framework.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £500, January 2024

  08-04-2024 15:14 via gov.uk
  
  Department of Health and Social Care spending by electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS), over £500.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £25,000, January 2024

  08-04-2024 13:52 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental spending over £25,000.
  
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• Guidance: Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund

  08-04-2024 12:30 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for adult social care employers on the training funds reimbursement scheme.
  
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• We’re stuck in a cycle of losing nurses and recruiting from abroad | Letter

  05-04-2024 18:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Nursing workforce shortages across the globe are a result of governments’ failure to value the work they do and develop proper retention strategies, writes Radha AdhikariAs Howard Catton, chief executive of the International Council of Nurses, suggests in your article, nurses are, quite understandably, becoming angry in countries across Africa (Recruitment of nurses from global south branded ‘new form of colonialism’, 27 March). This is both because of their working condit
  
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• Press release: End of NHS consultant strike action as government offer accepted

  05-04-2024 12:56 via gov.uk
  
  Consultant unions have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the government's offer, with BMA and HCSA voting yes by around 83%.
  
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• News story: NHS prescription charges from 1 May 2024

  05-04-2024 12:18 via gov.uk
  
  Charges for NHS prescriptions, wigs and fabric supports will increase on 1 May 2024.
  
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• Press release: UK donates £2 million lifesaving healthcare package to Ukraine

  05-04-2024 11:46 via gov.uk
  
  Ventilators, oxygen concentrators, pumps and monitors among kit donated to Ukraine.
  
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• Notice: Life Sciences Vision Missions

  04-04-2024 15:04 via gov.uk
  
  Bringing together industry, academia, the third sector and the NHS to tackle healthcare challenges such as dementia, cancer, mental health, obesity and addiction.
  
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• Official Statistics: Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2021 to 2022

  04-04-2024 11:35 via gov.uk
  
  Official statistics on the bioscience and health technology sector 2021 to 2022.
  
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• Policy paper: Government response to the Regulatory Horizons Council report on neurotechnology

  04-04-2024 10:35 via gov.uk
  
  Minister for Science, Research and Innovation and Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care have responded to recommendations made by the Regulatory Horizons Council on the regulation of neurotechnology.
  
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• Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2024

  04-04-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Official statistics on a range of topics including occupancy, infection control measures and COVID-19 vaccinations in adult social care settings.
  
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• Guidance: NHS injury costs recovery scheme: tariff and charges from 1 April 2024

  02-04-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Amendment in the tariff and ceiling of charges payable by compensators for the recovery of NHS charges under the NHS injury costs recovery scheme.
  
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• Policy paper: EM about an amendment to EU regulation 609/2013 (C(2024)454)

  28-03-2024 13:40 via gov.uk
  
  The government's summary about the use of iron milk caseinate in total diet replacement for weight control and in food for special medical purposes.
  
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