Tag: NHS

  • Opt-out testing for HIV and hepatitis begins in Birmingham emergency departments

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    The roll-out of opt-out testing across forty-seven sites nationwide hits the West Midlands today. All patients aged 16 and over attending the emergency department at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital will now be routinely tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections if they are already having a blood test taken. This fantastic progress will…

  • Dr Naomi, Saving Lives Ambassador takes to TV in The Sex Clinic

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    Saving Lives Ambassador, Dr Naomi Sutton, is taking the message that “testing saves lives” to the nation as the star E4’s ‘The Sex Clinic’ on Monday nights. Dr Naomi Sutton joined Saving Lives as an ambassador back in November 2018 at the start of National HIV Testing Week. We were delighted to have such a…

  • NHS Digital prohibited from data sharing with the Home Office on immigration offences

    Yesterday, May 9th 2018, the Government accepted the principle of an amendment to the Data Protection Bill tabled by Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. The amendment restricts NHS Digital to being able to share data relating to criminal investigations only for ‘serious offences’ – this does not include…

  • Saving Lives reaffirms support for access to PrEP to prevent HIV

    The Saving Lives charity reaffirms its support for greater access to PrEP to those most at risk to help prevent HIV infections. This morning BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme aired a piece on PrEP in England. The broadcast featured our Medical Director, Steve Taylor. You can listen again here. In the following piece Saving Lives…

  • News Roundup 12-Aug-2016

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    On the week when Team GB were completely smashing it and bringing back the Gold at Rio 2016, a 400 year old shark was found in Greenland and Donald Trump was still saying crazy things…   NHS England launches Public Consultation on PrEP In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen NHS England lose a…