Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A senior NHS anaesthetist fell asleep in an operating theatre during surgery, a medical tribunal heard. Thomas Herbst, a 61-year ...

An operating theatre scheme in Essex has saved nearly £90,000 while also helping to reduce waste ...

A woman claims a “smirking” consultant “buried his head in her breasts” when she was a junior surgeon, while a patient was anaesthetised on an operating table. Almost one in three female surgeons ...

London, United Kingdom - [9 SEPT], 2026 - Proximie, the operating system for intelligent operating rooms, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Deloitte, and eight NHS hospitals, today ...

The BBC story about wasted time in operating theatres has generated a lively debate. We reported that analysis by the regulator NHS Improvement showed there could have been 280,000 more non-emergency ...

Almost half of NHS consultant surgeons are carrying out no more than one planned inpatient operating session per week, as productivity plummets due to shortages of theatres, staff and beds, a major ...

The NHS will deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across more than 100 operating theatres in London as part of its largest test of the technology. The AI will use cameras to follow patients’ progress ...

NHS warns the movement of a mobile operating theatre in West Yorkshire may cause “minor delays” for those using the hospital car park. After 12 months at Wharfedale Hospital, in West Yorkshire, the ...

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