Health services

Addenbrooke Hospital establishes telemedicine screening service for premature babies

Optegra opens £13m new London facility to patients

Four pilots, which aim to ensure people are seen quicker closer to home through services delivered by optometrists and nurses in the community, have been launched across Wales

Health minister says practices are well placed to support the NHS reforms detailed in the Five Year Forward View

OT  on the need to expand the hospital eye service

The government’s four-year spending plans look to bolster frontline NHS services, but the push to claw back the deficit will continue to drive efficiency cuts across the board

OT  speaks to optometrist and LOCSU optical lead, Dharmesh Patel, about the importance of devolving health and social care spending in Greater Manchester

A new report highlights that rates of tuberculosis in the capital are among the highest in Western Europe, although associated cases of uveitis are rare

Review by Lord Carter calls for a total of £5bn in savings to be made by reducing variation in the delivery of hospital services in England

NHS approved retailer Pharmacy2U sold the personal details of more than 21,000 customers to marketers and fraudsters