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Oct 2020
Figures from NHS England show that nearly two million patients have been waiting for longer than the target time of 18 weeks for routine care, and 111,000 have been left for longer than twelve months. The numbers of patients commencing treatment for cancer and getting urgent checks are also below the levels seen a year…
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Oct 2020
The Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche has said logistical difficulties with the move to a new warehouse has led to a “very significant” reduction in its processing capacity. Although a spokesperson has said that tests for Covid-19 would be prioritised, it is feared that the backlog could affect other tests, including those for heart disease and…
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Oct 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has pursued swift enforcement action against a company who sent unsolicited marketing emails for face masks to 1,000s of email addresses. A London based software consultancy company has been fined £40,000 following an ICO investigation which determined that they had tried to exploit the public health pandemic by sending 9,000…
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Oct 2020
Public Health England have said that a technical glitch leading to nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases being unreported, has delayed efforts to trace contacts of people who had received positive tests. Although the issue has now been resolved, it does mean that the daily case totals reported on the government’s dashboard over the last week have…
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Oct 2020
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology has been won by three scientists who have discovered the Hepatitis C virus, British scientist Michael Houghton and US researchers Charles Rice and Harvey Alter. Hepatitis C is a common cause of liver cancer and a major reason for liver transplants. In the 1960s there was significant…
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Oct 2020
The sector’s most senior figure has warned that overstretched health visitors have been forced to care for up to 2,400 families with newborns at a time, which is ten times the recommended number. Prompting fears that generations of babies could face a troubled future, Cheryll Adams, chief executive of the Institute of Health Visiting, said…
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