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Face masks and coverings to be worn by all NHS staff

All staff in hospitals in England will be provided with surgical masks which they will be expected to wear from 15 June.....read more

NHS volunteers extend support to frontline staff

Frontline health and care staff will be able to access support from the hundreds of thousands of NHS volunteer responders.....read more

Credible plan needed to tackle patient backlog

The BMA has said that the government must urgently outline a credible plan for addressing the huge backlog of patients awaiting NHS treatment in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.....read more

Thousands of heart procedures delayed by pandemic

Around half of people with heart and circulatory diseases have found it harder to get medical treatment since the coronavirus pandemic began.....read more

Contact-tracing app in place by end of month

Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said that the new NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app should be in place by the end of the month, despite claims that it will not be ready until September.....read more

FEATURES

#BelongtoSomething - recruitment and social media

Peter Riches, Digital Marketing Director at Midlands-based creative digital agency Clear, explains why a growing number of NHS trusts are turning to social media to ease their recruitment woes.....read more

Facilities management and increasing IoT investment

Preston Gan asks whether the current state of facilities management in the NHS is ready for the investment of IoT, Big Data and AI.....read more