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Jul 2021
A committee of MPs have said the safety of maternity services in England has not improved quickly enough, adding that a “culture of blame” was preventing staff admitting mistakes and lessons being learned. Jeremy Hunt, chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, said 1,000 more babies would survive each year if England’s maternity services…
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Jul 2021
Cancer patients at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust have had their operations cancelled after rising numbers of coronavirus patients, which senior medics said was “affecting all our wards everywhere”. The trust said it had seen a “marked increase” in Covid admissions and was now having to cancel surgery for urgent patients “who’ve already waited too long”.…
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Jul 2021
NHS Lanarkshire in Scotland is considering pulling back on non-urgent procedures due to “workforce pressures” and rising Covid admissions. An A&E consultant has said emergency hospital treatment at the trust should only be sought as a “last resort”. Dr Calvin Lightbody said “huge numbers” of patients were attending A&E with non-critical conditions. Heather Knox, chief…
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Jul 2021
A new blood test for early diagnosis of the hard to detect disease could be available in months and improve survival rates. Pancreatic cancer currently has the lowest survival rate of the commonly known cancers, with 7.3 per cent of patients alive five years following diagnosis, compared to 58.4 per cent of bowel cancer patients…
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Jul 2021
Medical leaders are warning that the NHS could face staff shortages as an increasing number of doctors are deciding to work part time. Over a quarter of senior consultant physicians are expecting to retire within three years, however a survey by the Royal College of Physicians found 56 per cent of trainees were considering working…
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Jul 2021
A senior public health official has said health boards should consider cancelling non-urgent procedures to reduce pressure on hospitals in Scotland. NHS Grampian’s head of health intelligence Jilllian Evans, said it would “make sense” to defer some operations. Ms Evans said “It would make sense for us to try to mitigate as many risks of…
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