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07
Jan 2015

A&E waiting times in England worst for ten years

Figures have shown that the A&E waiting time target of four hours has been missed by the NHS in England and performance has dropped to the lowest level in ten years. In the last three months of 2014, 92.6% of patients were seen within four hours, the target is 95%. The rest of the UK…

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07
Jan 2015

Local Firm fined £128,000.00 for breach of Fire Safety Regulations

A local retailer has been fined for breaking a number of safety regulations at its sites in Morley, Batley and Leeds. The offences committed included locking fire doors, having faulty fire alarms and not keeping fire escapes clear. The prosecutor in this case, Sarah Dinnock pointed out to the court that if a fire had…

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06
Jan 2015

Accident and emergency departments ‘creaking under pressure’

Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director, has said that as winter starts to take hold, the “system is creaking”, A&E units are stretched and ambulance services are struggling in some parts of the country. However, the government has released an additional £300m, meaning that this extra funding, together with forward planning, should help the…

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06
Jan 2015

Failing better care fund leaves NHS facing £700m black hole

A plan to keep patients out of hospital and save the NHS £1 billion a year has been branded a “shambles” after it was found by the Government’s spending watchdog that it would save less than a third of the anticipated amount. The proposals to transfer £2 billion of funding from the NHS to social…

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22
Dec 2014

Wakefield was Closed For Business on Thursday 11th December when the WACCL came to town, raising £23,500 for Wakefield district Children and young people.

  Launched in 2013, the Wakefield Annual Charity Christmas Lunch (WACCL) provided much needed funds to support the Theatre Royal Wakefield Performance Academy providing bursaries for those who would not ordinarily be able to attend.  The charities remit is to support dis-advantaged children from the Wakefield District.  In 2013 WACCL raised £13,500 for Theatre Royal…

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12
Dec 2014

New complaints provoked by NHS ombudsman

Over 140 families have voiced concerns just weeks after a report raising the alarm about how the NHS ombudsman handles complaints made by patients. The Patients Association, the charity which put the report together, said it had received a high volume of calls from patients who said they felt badly let down by the service,…

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