16
Jan 2015
According to Diabetes UK, avoidable deaths, record rates of complications and high costs to the NHS are being caused by poor diabetes care in England. The charity warns that current care systems are not endeavouring to get on top of the problem. Although a tenth of the NHS budget is spent on diabetes, the majority…
07
Jan 2015
Figures have shown that the A&E waiting time target of four hours has been missed by the NHS in England and performance has dropped to the lowest level in ten years. In the last three months of 2014, 92.6% of patients were seen within four hours, the target is 95%. The rest of the UK…
07
Jan 2015
A local retailer has been fined for breaking a number of safety regulations at its sites in Morley, Batley and Leeds. The offences committed included locking fire doors, having faulty fire alarms and not keeping fire escapes clear. The prosecutor in this case, Sarah Dinnock pointed out to the court that if a fire had…
06
Jan 2015
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director, has said that as winter starts to take hold, the “system is creaking”, A&E units are stretched and ambulance services are struggling in some parts of the country. However, the government has released an additional £300m, meaning that this extra funding, together with forward planning, should help the…
06
Jan 2015
A plan to keep patients out of hospital and save the NHS £1 billion a year has been branded a “shambles” after it was found by the Government’s spending watchdog that it would save less than a third of the anticipated amount. The proposals to transfer £2 billion of funding from the NHS to social…
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