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Jan 2020
Family Mediation gives separating parties an opportunity to decide for themselves in a neutral venue what to do about resolving issues about their children and finances with an impartial mediator. In the mediation, the parties are encouraged to cooperate with the other in negotiations and find solutions to move forward with their lives. Mediation can…
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Jan 2020
Following a decision to close four GP practices within Calderdale, patients are to be moved to alternative practices. The decision was made following a meeting last week of the NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group’s Commissioning Primary Medical Services Committee, to consider the findings of it’s consultation into the future of Alternative Primary Medical Services contracts…
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Jan 2020
Recent analysis has found that a rapid cancer diagnosis centre at Neath Port Talbot Hospital has reduced waiting times by up to 92% in its first year as well as cutting costs. Between June 2017 and May 2018, 189 patients were referred by their GPs to the clinic. They were then either given a diagnosis…
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Jan 2020
The NHS in England is to pioneer a twice-yearly jab that reduces bad cholesterol to protect the heart. Millions of people currently take a daily dose of statins to reduce their cholesterol. However, later this year a ‘ground-breaking’ large-scale clinical trial will offer NHS patients a new gene silencing form of medicine in an injection…
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Jan 2020
Senior staff members at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust have admitted that some patients may come to harm if discharged early under plans to ease “significant pressures” on services at the trust. In an internal memo, hospital bosses said they were being forced to take action to tackle the problem, adding that it was “vital” staff…
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Jan 2020
Motor neurone disease has been described as one of the few remaining illnesses that is still largely a mystery, even though it claims hundreds of lives each year in the UK. The disease, for which there is currently no effective cure or treatment, sees muscles waste away after a loss of nerve cells that control…
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