Flexible healthcare infrastructure offers a range of options for managing the healthcare estate effectively and increases the ability to adapt to sudden changes in demand or disruptions to service delivery, without lengthy lead-times and significant capital expenditure.

The pandemic has put pressure on services but also pushed forward innovation to tackle the significant challenges of frontline infection control and prevention that the NHS should build on. 

One of the most important ways the UK can assist in a global recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic is, firstly, to improve its domestic response by freeing up capacity and the supply of vaccines. Professor James Kingsland reflects on what the UK can do to support the world emerging from the pandemic.

Covid-19 overshadows all our lives. But just because we are battling the same storm does not mean we are all in the same boat. The people likely to be most exposed to coronavirus, and to suffer most from the resulting interventions, are disproportionally those already disadvantaged in society.

Integrated care systems and hospital groups across the country are currently establishing scalable, digitally enabled, community diagnostic hubs. Siemens Healthineers gathered the views of health system stakeholders planning local diagnostic provision on the objectives and challenges of this approac

Services need a learning culture and support for staff from the top to tackle repeated failings in the imaging pathway that can have serious consequences for patients.

In autumn 2020, the Government made a commitment to build 40 hospitals in England by 2030, with a budget of £3.7 billion. The government has announced the selection process for a further eight new hospitals. The new sites are intended to transform NHS services, for patients, staff and the community.

The new Secretary of State for Health and Care are arrives at a remarkably interesting time, and is unusually well-positioned to address certain tensions in the sector.

Disparities in the growth of waiting lists due to the pandemic highlight the importance of addressing unmet needs among certain populations.

While the current spotlight is on reducing post-pandemic elective surgery waiting times, emergency departments have been left to pick up the health system’s slack. Public Policy Projects Policy Analyst Lottie Moore spoke to Dr Katherine Henderson about the challenges now facing emergency medicine.

Gender biases permeate every aspect of society, but the stakes are much higher in healthcare.

Webinar Report Part Two – Unleashing the potential of global Britain for life sciences: Leading innovation, access and uptake.

Anna Dickinson, Policy Analyst at Public Policy Projects, asks genomics experts Professor Anna Middleton and Vivienne Parry what can be done to encourage people to share their data to support valuable research, identification of those at risk of certain conditions and the development of treatments.

A one health approach to public health is needed to prevent future pandemics, this approach must draw upon the crucial link between the natural world and human health.

Nearly 120,000 new homes are due to be built across England with £8.6 billion worth of funding being allocated this week. Around half of these new builds are expected to be available for affordable home ownership including 30,000 social rent builds.

Just under 25,000 public electric vehicle charging devices have now been installed across the UK, with new additions up seven per cent from last quarter. 

Uber competitor Didi has delayed its European launch due to a regulatory crackdown that is seeing the company face scrutiny from regulators, both in China and abroad.