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Feb 2024
Over 100 patients of a leading clinic who had eggs and embryos frozen have been told they may have been damaged due to a fault in the freezing process. The clinic at Guy’s Hospital in London said it may have mistakenly used some bottles of a faulty freezing solution in September and October 2022,…
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Feb 2024
Inspectors have warned that University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) Foundation Trust must step up staff safety training in its emergency departments. Serious issues surrounding A&E safeguarding were uncovered and not all staff had undertaken mandatory training, the health watchdog said. The visits during April, May and June last year, came after the trust had…
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Feb 2024
More than half of GP surgeries in Lancashire say they could close within two years due to budget pressures. According to a new survey, seven of the region’s practices consider themselves to be under “immediate” threat of closing down and a further 94 surgeries fear they will close in the next 18 to 24…
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Feb 2024
The number of people being admitted to hospital with flu and norovirus has hit a new high for England this winter, with latest NHS figures showing that 2,226 beds were taken up by flu patients each day last week, up 70 per cent in a month. The NHS said the data showed it was…
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Feb 2024
A report by Cancer Research UK says the rate of improvement in the number of people who survive cancer has slowed down, and the rate of progress was five times faster in the 2000s than in the 2010s. The report largely blames a lack of sufficient funding for research. However it also finds that…
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Feb 2024
Experts say worsening health among the under fives in the UK needs to be urgently addressed, highlighting ‘major health issues’ such as obesity, infant deaths and tooth decay. The Academy of Medical Sciences says society is betraying children and the problems are limiting their future and damaging economic prosperity. The government says children’s…
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