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THE CLINICAL SERVICES JOURNAL
Volume 25 I Issue 6 I June 2026
Inside this issue
5 Editor’s Comment Calls for action on women’s health
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for the little ones Löwenstein Medical provides an insight into the latest innovation developed to protect the lungs of the tiniest and most vulnerable patients.
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15 Assisted dying and the implications for nurses Mona Guckian Fisher, Former President of the International Federation of Perioperative Nurses, provides an insight into assisted dying around the World, highlighting the laws, safeguards, ethical tensions, and implications for nursing practice.
19 Could AI support expansion of nurse roles? A major Cochrane review has found that nurses can safely and effectively deliver many aspects of hospital care traditionally provided by doctors. Tim Morris and Greta Westwood CBE PhD RN discuss how the nursing workforce could prepare for expanded roles with blended learning and AI-informed decision-making.
24 Gynaecology data gaps see women’s health suffer New analysis shows most NHS systems do not track outcomes, NICE adherence or pathways in gynaecology – despite more than 750,000 women waiting for care.
27 Closing diagnostic gaps in women’s healthcare Hermione Blakiston and Erica Kantor warn that delayed diagnosis is having a negative impact on outcomes for women, while placing an increased strain on healthcare services. They look at the potential of promising biomarkers in closing the ‘diagnosis gap’.
31 The value of ‘fast diagnostics’
Fast diagnostics have the potential to significantly shorten time to appropriate therapy for bloodstream infections at high risk of sepsis, yet significant barriers to adoption persist, warns a new report by the Office of Health Economics. The report calls for the removal of structural and workflow barriers, so that fast results translate into faster therapy.
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35 Setting the highest standards in IPC Christine Finch, Head of Infection Prevention and Control, Nuffield Health, provides an insight into how Nuffield Health achieved the highest standards in infection prevention across its sites, including Gold accreditation in Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT). What can NHS hospitals learn from their experience?
HealthTech: enabling future models of care
Closing diagnostic gaps in women’s healthcare Could AI support expansion of nurse roles?
39 Procurement: how can the NHS do better? Amelia Deacon offers an insight into how the NHS can drive improvement by adopting value-based healthcare and procurement. In this article, she shares a checklist that could help ensure Trusts deliver the outcomes that matter most to patients and staff.
45 A new NHS needs a new engineering model Esther Coleman explains why intelligent asset tracking will be crucial in assisting Electro-Biomedical Engineering (EBME) in delivering the Government’s NHS 10-Year Plan.
50 How can sterile services become greener? Alison Arnold says that sustainable healthcare is no longer a “nice to have” – it’s an essential part of delivering safe, cost-effective and responsible services. In this article, she discusses the way forward.
53 Accelerating AI in medical device development The opportunity and the risk posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) need to be finely balanced: misdiagnoses, incorrect dosages or hacked drug delivery systems pose a tangible danger to patient health, but international regulation for AI and SaMDs is divergent and complex. Ruaidhrí Primrose and Jonathan Ripley tackle the challenges and opportunities.
59 HealthTech: enabling future models of care High on the agenda at EBME Expo 2026 will be the role of healthcare technology in enabling future models of care. Professor John Sandham, Chair of the EBME Expo, provides an insight into the hot topics that will be discussed at the event and some of the key challenges for the NHS.
68 The rise of the robots in Scotland Executive Chair of InnoScot Health, Graham Watson, analyses the rise of the robots across Scotland’s healthcare ecosystem and highlights the huge potential for transforming patient outcomes.
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