Health, Care & Life Sciences

To mark this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Chamber held a panel session with several individuals who play a key role in diagnosing, treating and supporting women and men with breast cancer.

A poll of GPs in the UK has shown primary care doctors want to prescribe assistive technologies to patients diagnosed with dementia.

A leading independent Health Think Tank in the United Kingdom has called on student loans to be written off for certain health staff once they have been employed by the NHS for ten years.

For this year’s Alzheimer’s Awareness Day, Chamber was joined by policymakers and innovators to discuss the hope for a dementia-friendly world.

At their annual conferen, the Liberal Democrats have announced that they are calling on the Government to increase the tax for social media firms due to the worsening mental health problems in children.

Consultants and junior doctors in England are staging their first joint strike in the history of the NHS. Consultants walked out this morning and will be joined by junior doctors on Wednesday morning. The British Medical Association-organised strike by consultants will last two days, while the one by junior doctors is scheduled for three.

Emergency care will be covered throughout, but NHS bosses said patients are still at risk.

This week, millions of NHS workers will strike once again as pay disputes between workers and the government rumbles on. On Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th of September, NHS consultants will be taking industrial action while from Wednesday to Friday, junior doctors will also be on strike.

According to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) for its Commission on Health and Prosperity, long-term sickness has become a “serious fiscal threat” to the UK due to absences from work. The report argues that action is needed to reform health and social care and that there is the chance to deliver a once-in-a-generation NHS reform to restrain killer costs and end second-rate care.

The Government has announced an extra £200m worth of funding to boost NHS resilience over winter. However, NHS leaders and trusts are warning that unless ministers focus on ending industrial action, the healthcare system will come under further pressure.