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Oct 2018
The £2million Da Vinci Xi robot has been used to operate on a patient who needed to undergo major cancer surgery, involving a full pelvic extraction. The eight hour procedure, which usually necessitates at least one surgeon and three assistants, involved two surgeons who controlled the robot from consoles several feet away. Shahnawaz Rasheed, a…
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Oct 2018
It was recently announced that Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley is currently being investigated in relation to the deaths of 54 patients in their A&E department within the first six months of this year. The inquiry to establish the circumstances of the deaths has been opened by Mike Bewick, former deputy chief executive of NHS…
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Oct 2018
A report has stated that patients with suspected sepsis were left waiting 11 hours for life-saving treatment at a scandal-hit A&E unit. An independent inquiry is currently ongoing into the Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley following the deaths of dozens of patients there. This new evidence has found that patients who are showing signs of…
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Oct 2018
According to cancer Breast Cancer Care, thousands of terminal breast cancer patients are being denied specialist nursing care, and that almost three quarters of UK NHS trusts are currently not providing dedicated nurses. This comes despite a government statement three years ago that it was ‘committed to increasing the capacity’ of specialist cancer nurses and…
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Oct 2018
A child health report has claimed that the number of infant deaths in the UK will rise to twice the rate of other western countries if the current trend continues. The report stated that the infant mortality rate in England and Wales escalated in 2015 and 2016, and is now 30 per cent higher than…
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Oct 2018
Official figures have revealed that the NHS waiting list is the longest for 11 years, and that 4.15 million patients are currently waiting for routine treatment, around six per cent of the whole of the UK population. The news comes just as Britain is about to enter the winter months and could mean that the…
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