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• AI skin cancer detection system gets green light for conditional NHS use

  An artificial intelligence system for potential skin cancer has been conditionally recommended for use in the NHS for the next three years while further evidence is collected.

• New guideline will help cut falls and related hospital admissions for older and at-risk people

  Personalised assessments that consider factors including the hazards in a person’s home, and their previous medical history will help reduce falls in older and at-risk people, according to a new NICE guideline.

• Cutting-edge robotic surgery gets green light as 11 systems are recommended

  Eleven cutting-edge robotic surgery systems have been approved for use, potentially transforming care for thousands of NHS patients undergoing soft tissue and orthopaedic procedures.

• Thousands of people a year could benefit from new twice-a-day tablet for advanced breast cancer

  We've published final draft guidance recommending capivasertib with fulvestrant, which means the treatment will be funded immediately through the Cancer Drugs Fund.

• Hundreds of people in England to benefit from take-at-home tablet bladder cancer treatment

  Today, for the first time, we have given the green light to a targeted treatment for the most common form of bladder cancer.

• Updated pneumonia guidelines for babies and children with mild pneumonia

  Babies and children between the ages of three months and 11-years-old with pneumonia should be offered a three-day rather than five-day course of antibiotics, according to a new draft NICE guideline.