08
Jun 2021
Health chiefs have said today that pregnant women should be induced at 41 weeks, before they are classed as overdue, to reduce the risks to themselves and their baby. Healthy mothers-to-be have previously only been offered an induced labour on the NHS when classed as overdue, at 42 weeks. However, new evidence has shown that…
08
Jun 2021
A hospital “colonised” by antibiotic-resistant bacteria is due to undergo a “radical” £2m revamp in an effort to eradicate the problem. A report has said that the ward for people having surgery on complex gastrointestinal conditions at Morriston Hospital in Swansea has had an outbreak of carbapenemase-producing organisms since 2019. A deep clean of the…
08
Jun 2021
Doctors and patient groups are warning that increasing numbers of patients needing care and a shortage of GPs is threatening to overwhelm the system. This comes after the pandemic has caused significant disruption to GP practices for more than a year. Analysis by the Health Foundation of NHS England data found that more than 28…
25
May 2021
NHS Digital statistics how that 147.85 million face-to-face consultations happened between April 2020 and March 2021, down from the 238.26 million during the same 12 month period the year before. Critics have slammed the decision by the NHS to divert patients away from in-person appointments as “not acceptable”. GPs have been instructed to adopt a…
25
May 2021
An investigation by the BBC has found that serious patient safety issues are being buried in confidential hospital reports. Freedom of Information (FoI) requests revealed over one hundred reports, written by medical royal colleges, which NHS trusts have a duty to share. Eighty reports were provided to the BBC, but only 26 had been shared…
25
May 2021
A group of MPs has been told that offering children in some richer countries a coronavirus vaccine before some high-risk people in poorer ones is “morally wrong”. Professor Andrew Pollard, who assisted in the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, said the “inequality” of vaccine distribution must change “urgently”. Canada and the US have made a…
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