News Archive: November 2018

26 November 2018

ENT UK has written to the British Journal of General Practice following their publication of the research paper ‘Incidence of indications for tonsillectomy and frequency of evidence-based surgery: a 12-year retrospective cohort study of primary care...

12 November 2018

A letter signed by sixteen leading experts – including Professor Nirmal Kumar, the President Elect of ENT UK – has been sent to public health minister Steve Brine MP on behalf of HPV Action. The letter urges Mr Brine to reverse the decision not...

08 November 2018

Congratulations to Chang Woo Lee, winner of the ENT UK Undergraduate Prize 2018. The essay question answered was "What can ENT UK do to improve care in the developing world?" Chang, a student from the University of Cambridge, was inspired to...

06 November 2018

The University of Birmingham’s Institute of Applied Health Research has published a paper in the British Journal of General Practice disputing the necessity of up to 88 percent of tonsillectomies carried out on children in the UK each year. In the...

05 November 2018

Disappointment at decision over vaccination proposals The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has decided not to introduce the HPV catch-up programme for boys aged 13-16. The chief reason given is the indirect protection afforded older...