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Feb 2021
A report has found that two-thirds of women at the centre of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care. Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board’s maternity services were placed in special measures since “serious failings” were found two years ago. Concerns…
02
Feb 2021
A medical technology firm is to launch a “digital pen” designed to deliver an early warning of Parkinson’s disease as well as other neurological conditions. The new NeuroMotor Pen, developed by Edinburgh-based Manus Neurodynamica, is designed to help diagnose and monitor neuromotor impairments by way of analysing the slightest hand and limb movements. The pen…
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Feb 2021
The Royal College of Nursing have said a long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, the nursing union ran a survey looking at the impact the pandemic was having on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses’ lives. Of the 2,000 members in…
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Feb 2021
Researchers have claimed following a large-scale observational study, that exposure to air pollution could increase the risk of developing a form of irreversible loss of sight in older age. The research, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, found that air pollutants were linked to an increased risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a progressive…
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Feb 2021
The independent Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) says labelling some mistakes as never events could fuel a blame culture in the health service. The HSIB said that at least seven so-called NHS “never events” should be reclassified because the health service has failed to put in place effective measures to stop them from happening. They…
02
Feb 2021
Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, has said that Covid-19 could become a “much more treatable disease in the next six to 18 months”, telling MPs that he hoped more treatments would emerge in the future which, together with the vaccination, would see a turn for the better. He spoke of the prospect…
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