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Jun 2021
Matt Hancock has said NHS patients in England will have greater control over their health and social care data under plans set out by the government, meaning patients will be able to access their medical records from different parts of the NHS through various apps. However, critics have voiced their concerns that data could be…
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Jun 2021
Under Welsh government targets, people classified as having the highest risk of going blind should be seen no later than 25 per cent beyond their target appointment date, meaning a patient given an eight week maximum waiting time target should be seen within ten weeks. However, recent figures show that in April, none of Wales’…
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Jun 2021
Experts say a high-tech treatment could be key to addressing the NHS backlog of cancer patients fuelled by the Covid pandemic. Proton beam therapy, which became available in the UK three years ago, can now be used to treat 2,000 patients in Britain at any one time. NHS figures show 45,000 fewer cancer patients than…
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Jun 2021
New research has suggested that an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s had mixed results, reducing biomarkers of the disease without significantly affecting cognitive decline. In a clinical trial led by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, patients were given a drug called gantenerumab. The results of the trial showed that there…
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Jun 2021
Chadwick Lawrence have recently become a member of The Kirkwood Business Movement, a regime created by a local Hospice and charity in Huddersfield. The Business Movement launched in 2021 and allows businesses to partner with the charity to network, get involved in fundraising events and offer time volunteering to support the charity. Our relationship with…
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Jun 2021
Experts have warned that misleading information about a controversial plan to share GP patient data is unnecessarily fuelling fears among the public and putting life-saving research at risk. It was recently announced that the General Practice Data for Planning and Research project which was due to start in July has been delayed until September. The…
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