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Feb 2021
Hospital leaders say maternity wards will need an extra £400m of spending every year in order to make them safer for mothers and babies. They warn that without increased funding, the NHS will be unable to fully implement recommendations made by an inquiry into poor maternity care at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust, where…
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Feb 2021
The A&E department at the Royal Oldham Hospital has been downgraded by regulators following fears of “significant risk of harm” to patients after inspectors found some were crammed “head to toe” on trolleys during a surge in coronavirus cases. Bosses at the hospital have been told by the Care Quality Commission to urgently improve it’s…
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Feb 2021
A leaked document suggests the government is planning to reverse NHS reforms in England, introduced under David Cameron in 2012. The changes planned would aim to challenge bureaucracy and encourage health services from GP surgeries to hospitals to work more closely with social care, and the health secretary would take more direct control over NHS…
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Feb 2021
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has approved a new treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis. MS is a condition which is caused by the body’s own immune system attacking the nervous system, affecting the spinal cord and brain. Symptoms include blurred vision, difficulties with movement and cognitive impairment. The drug, Zeposia, has been developed for…
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Feb 2021
Data from NHS Digital has revealed that of 207 women with registered learning disabilities in the NHS Leeds CCG area who were eligible for cervical screening, only 68 received the health check in 2019-20 – an update of just 33 per cent compared to 69 per cent among women who did not have a disability.…
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Feb 2021
Research undertaken by scientists at Cambridge University, has broken new ground in understanding the role of a key protein, which is present in the brain and plays several important roles that allow nerve cells to communicate effectively with each other. The protein, alpha-synuclein, causes the disease when it behaves abnormally and forms clumps called Lewy…
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