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Jan 2021
MPs have been told that midwives and doctors working in maternity services face higher levels of bullying than in any other part of the NHS. According the General Medical Council, trainee doctors in maternity services experience more than twice the level of bullying seen throughout the rest of the NHS, while the Nursing and Midwifery…
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Jan 2021
Over 1,500 people are diagnosed with motor neurone disease in the UK each year. There is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis. Scientists are now a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by the degenerative condition, by finding a problem with patients’ nerve cells…
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Jan 2021
Research has revealed that there has been a sharp drop in the number of patients admitted to hospitals in England with heart failure or heart attacks in recent months. This was also the case during the first wave of the pandemic and experts are concerned that people who need urgent medical help and not seeking…
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Jan 2021
Recent figures have shown that the NHS being overwhelmed by the coronavirus crisis has caused waiting lists for routine treatment to surge to the highest levels recorded. Over 4.5 million people are currently on the NHS waiting list, while nearly 200,000 have been left waiting for over a year for treatment, a figure which stood…
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Jan 2021
Health bosses have warned that cancer treatments must not be delayed, despite the impact on coronavirus on hospitals, amid fears that too many operations are being cancelled. In a message last week, NHS England told regional directors that hospitals must give cancer the same priority as coronavirus patients. There are fears that large-scale delays in…
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Jan 2021
As progress on tackling the common form of ovarian cancer reaches its biggest breakthrough in three decades, thousands of women will now be able to access a groundbreaking new drug. Nirapab, which treats patients by blocking cancer cells from repairing themselves, will be accessible through the NHS to all women who are newly diagnosed with…
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