05
Feb 2020
An £80m treatment fund has ‘significantly reduced’ the time taken for newly recommended treatment to become available to patients in Wales, cutting the wait from 90 days to 13. First launched in 2017, the New Treatment Fund provides health boards with financial assistance to speed up access to life-prolonging and improving medicines. The fund now…
05
Feb 2020
Cancer Focus Northern Island have announced a £300,000 investment in pioneering research at Queen’s University Belfast into two cancers which are among the hardest to treat and have very low survival rates. The five-year survival rate in England for pancreatic cancer is 6.9% and for oesophageal cancer approximately 15%. In Northern Ireland, the statistics are…
04
Feb 2020
An investigation by the BBC has found that stroke, heart attack and burns victims are amongst the seriously injured and ill patients waiting for longer than an hour for an ambulance to arrive in England and Wales. Experts say these delays, which are intended to be reached in 18 minutes on average, are putting lives…
04
Feb 2020
The health secretary Matt Hancock is to investigate allegations that some women are being denied pain-relieving epidurals during childbirth by NHS trusts. Current NHS guidelines state that pain relief during labour can be requested at any time and that women should be given support and information to choose what is right for them. Although epidural…
04
Feb 2020
A survey recently distributed and conducted by medical royal colleges has raised concerns about excessive workloads within the NHS, with almost a third of doctors surveyed reporting that they are suffering from stress, burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’. The survey, which has been published in the BMJ Open Journal, also found that GPs and A&E doctors…
04
Feb 2020
For many years, an increased risk of type 2 diabetes was seen as the result of poor nutrition during pregnancy, evidenced by a low birth weight. However, although in recent years babies’ birth weights have been increasing, cases of the disease have continued to rise, leading to a search for alternative explanations. The ability to…
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