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Nov 2016
Figures released from NHS England show that a Bradford NHS group has been named as one of 11 Clinical Commissioning Groups with the ‘greatest need for improvement’ across the country. The figures showed that maternity care needs to improve in almost 75 per cent of areas across the country. 209 CCGs were rated, with 144…
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Oct 2016
Research has shown that babies born out of hours are 30 per cent more likely to die or suffer serious complications. A major audit published today, using figures obtained by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, has revealed that three in four maternity wards have no consultant at the hospital overnight and half of…
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Oct 2016
A study by the British Cardiovascular Society has found that a third of consultant cardiologists do not work evenings or at weekends, putting patients at risk and leaving a gaping hole in care outside of working hours. The study showed that heart patients who are admitted to hospital at the weekend often have more than…
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Oct 2016
A report by the Royal College of Midwives has warned that some maternity units are ‘dangerous’, with midwives being left on their own to look after up to 15 women and their babies. The RCM also reports that maternity departments are becoming ‘dangerous’ and ‘stressful’, with ‘epidemic’ levels of bullying, leading to an exodus of…
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Oct 2016
Figures have shown that before being seen by A&E staff, thousands of ambulance patients in England are facing long delays, with the number of waits exceeding an hour nearly trebling in the last two years. It should be possible for ambulance crews to hand patients over to A&E staff within 15 minutes of arrival and…
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Oct 2016
The European Cancer Congress has presented promising results in a study of 350 head and neck cancer patients. In the study, the number of patients surviving for longer whilst taking the drug, nivolumab, exceeded those being treated with chemotherapy. In the trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36% of the patients trialled…
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