In this week’s feature, we speak to Amanda Winter, a Diagnostic Evaluation Healthcare Scientist from the North East Innovation Lab, who discusses what a day in her life is like.

Last week, the Prime Minister named Robert Jenrick and Will Quince as Ministers of State in Therese Coffey’s new Health team. It is expected that Mr Jenrick will take the more senior role as the Secretary of State’s deputy.

The new Health Minister, Dr Therese Coffey, has only been in post a mere two days but is already preparing bold plans to improve NHS efficiency and tackle key problems such as lack of beds and social care.

RQM+, the leading MedTech service provider with the world’s largest global team of regulatory and quality experts, and portfolio company of Linden Capital Partners, today announced the acquisition of Jordi Labs. With these new capabilities, RQM+ provides comprehensive regulatory, quality, clinical and laboratory services, supporting market access throughout the entire product lifecycle for medical devices and diagnostics.

7 new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) will open to help improve the Covid backlogs, diagnose patients more quickly and meet future demands on the NHS, the Health and Social Care Secretary has confirmed this week.

On Thursday, the next phase of the inquiry into the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic began. It will scrutinise decisions made by key players during the pandemic, such as then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Regular asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 in all remaining settings in England will be paused from 31 August, as COVID-19 cases continue to fall.

In this piece, we hear from Andy Howlett, Director of Strategy – Community Diagnostic Centres at InHealth, about what a day in his life looks like.

As summer draws to a close, we can take a look back at all of the important NIHR events that have occurred in the last few months.

The Government has written to the European Commission to request consultations on finalising the UK’s participation in EU Programmes.