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May 2019
A symptoms checklist already exists for adults, but individual trusts usually rely on their own systems for detecting the condition in children. The Royal College of Nursing has campaigned for a decade for the introduction of a standard system to alert medical staff to children who are showing symptoms of sepsis. However, according to the…
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May 2019
Square Chapel is a performing arts centre next to the historic Piece Hall in Halifax and was designed by the same architect. It was bought by six art lovers, all of whom until recently sat on its board of trustees, in 1988 from the Council and saved from demolition. Over the years it has grown…
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May 2019
The Royal College of Nursing have said that the good will of nurses in England is being abused by politicians who have been unable to deal with a critical shortage of staff. There are currently as much as 40,000 vacancies amongst the profession, which is around one in nine posts. However, a report from earlier…
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May 2019
Following research undertaken at Oxford University, scientists say they may have identified a new scan technique able to detect people at risk of cardiac arrest through hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The researchers used microscopic imaging to spot the structural changes in the heart which cause the condition in living patients. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of…
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May 2019
80 hospitals throughout England, Scotland and Wales are to offer pilot screening for the life-threatening bacterial infection which affects newborns. Around one in five pregnant women carry group-B streptococcus (GBS) which, if left undiagnosed, can be passed on to the unborn child. In the UK, around 400 to 500 babies are born with the infection…
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