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May 2021
NHS Digital statistics how that 147.85 million face-to-face consultations happened between April 2020 and March 2021, down from the 238.26 million during the same 12 month period the year before. Critics have slammed the decision by the NHS to divert patients away from in-person appointments as “not acceptable”. GPs have been instructed to adopt a…
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May 2021
An investigation by the BBC has found that serious patient safety issues are being buried in confidential hospital reports. Freedom of Information (FoI) requests revealed over one hundred reports, written by medical royal colleges, which NHS trusts have a duty to share. Eighty reports were provided to the BBC, but only 26 had been shared…
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May 2021
A group of MPs has been told that offering children in some richer countries a coronavirus vaccine before some high-risk people in poorer ones is “morally wrong”. Professor Andrew Pollard, who assisted in the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, said the “inequality” of vaccine distribution must change “urgently”. Canada and the US have made a…
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May 2021
Google has released a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help detect skin, nail and hair conditions, based on images uploaded by patients. A trial of the “dermatology assist tool”, which was unveiled at the tech giant’s recent annual developer conference, should launch later this year. Although Dermatology Assist has not yet been given clearance…
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May 2021
New figures have revealed that there were over a million hospital admissions for obesity-related treatment in England in the year leading into the global pandemic. The record number offers the clearest indication so far of the scale of the obesity problem as coronavirus started to spread across the UK. Experts say the data should be…
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May 2021
A union leader has said doctors in Wales are facing disciplinary action and bullying for raising concerns over safety and working conditions. The Welsh government said bullying of NHS staff was “entirely unacceptable”. BMA Wales’ Dr Phil Banfield, said doctors who raised concerns about work, both before and during the pandemic, were viewed as “troublemakers”,…
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