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Jan 2021
A troubling new study has found that more women may suffer pain due to being conscious while undergoing caesareans or other pregnancy-related surgery under general anaesthetic than before realised. The Anaesthesia medical journal report found that being awake during a caesarean is much more common than it is with other types of surgery. Although the…
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Jan 2021
GPs in Yorkshire have warned that increasing numbers of health professionals face ‘burnout’ during the pandemic. This news comes as a Health and Social Care Select Committee is has taken place to look at the pressure medical staff are under. Professor Jeremy Dawson, professor of health management at Sheffield University, spoke to MPs at the…
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Jan 2021
A study suggests that high numbers of hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience. Researchers at King’s College London questioned 709 hospital workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased. Nearly 50 per…
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Jan 2021
Pinderfields hospital has said that patients are having to wait for up to five hours for a bed amid growing pressure from coronavirus, adding that it was trying to address the shortage of beds as a priority. The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pinderfields, said pressures on bed spaces were causing delays in…
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Jan 2021
Professor Ted Baker, chief inspector of hospitals, has called for honesty regarding the impact of the Covid pandemic on patients, warning that poor care could become normalised, adding that it was vital staff continued to report incidents. Professor Baker also revealed that the Care Quality Commission had seen a 60 per cent increase in whistleblowing…
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Jan 2021
A government review has found that four in ten of the most widely used epilepsy medications increase the risk of a baby suffering from a physical birth defect when born if taken while a woman is pregnant. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency analysed ten of the most commonly distributed medicines and found that…
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