A pilot programme for people living with Chronic Kidney Disease in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) is helping to revolutionise patient care and could be rolled out elsewhere.

Sanofi Healthcare, a leading global healthcare company, has been announced as the gold sponsor for Hypo Awareness Week 2024 – set to raise crucial awareness about hypoglycaemia in hospitals and primary care settings across the UK.

Stroke patients in Hull and parts of East Yorkshire are to benefit from a new rapid assessment system aimed at saving lives and improving care.

Trend Diabetes has launched a new leaflet designed to support primary care staff working with people at risk of developing diabetes.

Following Insulin Safety Week 2024, a series of case studies have been released to commemorate these efforts and share best practice across the healthcare sector.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust has confirmed its place at the forefront of pioneering revolutionary mechanical thrombectomy with almost five times the national average number of patients leaving hospital with no stroke symptoms, latest figures reveal.

NICE has published its final guidance recommending tenecteplase (also called Metalyse and made by Boehringer Ingelheim) as an option for treating acute ischaemic stroke in adults.

The Lincolnshire Heart Centre is among the first non-surgical centres in the country to use a new life-saving device to assist with the heart function during complex procedures to treat narrowings in the arteries of the heart.

Following record-breaking numbers of sites taking part in Insulin Safety Week 2024, entries are open for the Insulin Safety Week Excellence Awards. 

The eagerly anticipated annual campaign Hypo Awareness Week returns this October, with the aim of raising crucial awareness of hypoglycaemia among healthcare professionals in the UK and Ireland.

A new smartphone face-screening tool could help paramedics to identify stroke in seconds – much sooner and more accurately than is possible with current technologies.

The human body has sophisticated defences against the deposition of calcium minerals that stiffen heart tissues, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at UCLA Health and the University of Texas at Austin found in a new study that provides the first detailed, step-by-step documentation of how calcification progresses.

University Hospitals Dorset’s stroke team has been involved in a global health programme to improve stroke services across the world.

Patients with heart conditions at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust are set to benefit from an innovative new pacemaker procedure.

Global healthcare company Medtronic announced as Insulin Safety Week 2024 sponsor.

Researchers have discovered a better way of identifying those at high risk of potential heart attacks and strokes and other major cardiovascular disease events.

A University Hospitals of North Midlands patient has become the first in the UK to benefit from a safer and less complicated procedure thanks to a revolutionary stent graft.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is working with East of England Ambulance Service Trust to use video calls to help suspected stroke patients.

Helping lighten the load so stroke patients get back on their feet forms new research from University of Northampton.

A new multi-million pound cardio respiratory ward has opened at Medway Maritime Hospital providing more than 30 new beds and state-of-the-art facilities for patients with serious breathing or heart conditions.