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Oct 2021
A patient suffered a fatal heart attack while waiting in an ambulance after it had queued for over two hours outside the accident and emergency department of the James Paget Hospital in Norfolk. The incident earlier this week happened days after local NHS services declared a maximum alert due to acute pressures, when the…
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Oct 2021
A new study suggests that many areas in the north of England have seen a fall in life expectancy in the last ten years. Researchers say differences across the country have now become stark, such as a 27-year gap in in life expectancy for a man living in Chelsea and Kensington, compared with Blackpool.…
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Oct 2021
A senior councillor has said bosses at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, where maternity services were deemed unsafe by the Care Quality Commission, should resign. The health scrutiny committee at Nottinghamshire County Council said leaders at the trust were “fully responsible”. The units at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen’s Medical Centre were…
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Oct 2021
Nearly half of all serious incidents at a hospital trust earlier this year were related to maternity care, a situation which has been described as “disturbing” amid wider safety fears. Around 1,900 maternity cases were already under review at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, but data shows that 45 per cent of serious incidents…
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Oct 2021
GPs in England are being told to see more patients in person as long waits in A&E rise to their worst level since records began. The government has launched a £250m emergency rescue package so GP surgeries can take on more temporary staff. The news comes amid increasing criticism about the reduction in…
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Oct 2021
Children across most of Africa are to be immunised against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the fatal disease. The vaccine, RTS, S, was proven to be effective six years ago and now, following successful pilot vaccination programmes in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organisation have said it should…
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