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Dec 2019
Latest NHS figures show that hospital performance has sunk again, with new record worst waits in A&E and for hospital operations. Only 81.4% of accident and emergency patients were seen within four hours in November, which is the lowest rate since the target began in 2004. A new high of 4.45 million was also hit…
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Dec 2019
An expert has been appointed to oversee infection control and prevention at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. The health board was recently placed in special measures due to ongoing concerns surrounding infection control and following the deaths of two children at the Royal Hospital for Children, which is part of the hospital’s campus,…
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Dec 2019
At a time when the NHS is struggling with a recruitment crisis, academics are warning that nursing and radiography degree courses may be at risk of closure. The Council of Deans of Health has drawn up a list of “at risk” university courses having difficulty attracting and retaining enough students following the removal of the…
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Dec 2019
An investigation has found that one in three hospitals in England increased the cost of parking last year and two Yorkshire trusts are amongst the top ten of highest earners. Overall, 47 NHS trusts increased their charges between 2017/18 and 2018/19, with an average increase of ten per cent. The study showed that hospitals made…
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Dec 2019
New figures which are about to be released suggest that thousands of patients may have endured waits in A&E departments in excess of 12 hours for a bed within the first week of December. Senior doctors warn that the report from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) based on a selection of emergency departments,…
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Dec 2019
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that last year, over 2,000 women in this age group had babies, with the number rising from 1,619 ten years ago to 2,366 in 2018. Chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives Gill Walton, said these figures highlighted the “sustained and unrelenting pressures” on midwives, maternity…
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