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Mar 2020
Health professionals say ‘corridor nursing’ is becoming increasingly prevalent as accident and emergency departments are becoming too full to look after the number of patients seeking treatment. In a recent poll of 1,174 emergency nurses in the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) Emergency Care Association, 73 per cent of those surveyed said they cared for…
03
Mar 2020
A report by Target Ovarian Cancer says there is a postcode lottery in the speed at which women are diagnosed. Although a patient diagnosed in the early stages of the disease has more than a 90 per cent chance of survival, one in five are diagnosed too late to receive any treatment at all, and…
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Mar 2020
A report has warned that because the NHS offers too little rehabilitation for patients discharged from hospitals, they are failing to recover sufficiently from a heart attack or stroke. According to the report from charity Sue Ryder, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, ‘patchy provision’ means patients with multiple…
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Feb 2020
Doctors at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff have said a scanner used for diagnosing cancer could identify some of the earliest and most difficult to diagnose forms of dementia, adding that its PET scanner could show signs of the condition in people who are not yet showing symptoms. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans reveal…
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Feb 2020
The Royal College of Midwives in Scotland has said concerns of a risk to patient safety at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin must be tackled “quickly and effectively”. An externally led review into maternity services at the hospital has described clinical governance as “not fully functional” and “dysfunctional and damaged” working relationships. NHS Grampian said…
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Feb 2020
The United Nations agency say children are being put at risk through climate change, under-age drinking and harmful advertising encouraging fast-food consumption. Although the UK was ranked amongst the top ten countries in the world for the overall health and wellbeing of children, it fell behind in safeguarding the environment for their future. The report…
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