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Jan 2021
Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been suspended at a major London NHS trust due to the number of beds being taken up by Covid patients. King’s College Hospital Trust has had to cancel all “Priority 2” operations – those which doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days. Cancer Research UK have said…
12
Jan 2021
Researchers at University College London have discovered a new technique, which combines chemotherapy treatment with magnetic particles that fry cancerous cells, and could be up to 34 per cent more effective. The tiny magnetic nanoparticles attach themselves to the cancerous cells of a tumour and also deliver the chemotherapy drug. When a harmless magnetic field…
12
Jan 2021
Enforcement action has been taken by the Care Quality Commission following a series of unannounced inspections, the findings of which showed that the lives of mothers and babies were left in danger at one of England’s largest hospital trusts. The regulator has now downgraded maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, which delivered 8,200 babies…
12
Jan 2021
In recent employment history, workers have campaigned for their employers to embrace home working; trusting the employee to work independently and to offer an environment that promotes work life balance and improves mental health. Many flirted with the notion, some paid lip service while others went further; viewing the arrangement as a Golden Ticket to…
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Dec 2020
It has been reported that some GP practices in England have elected not to join the NHS’s coronavirus vaccination programme, citing difficulties with heavy workloads. GP-led sites will begin vaccinations next week after hospital sites started rolling out the Pfizer/BioNTech injections earlier this week, but many practices have cited staff shortages, potential cuts to other…
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Dec 2020
NHS England have revealed plans to scrap the four-hour waiting time target for A&E patients in a critical shake-up, which is intended to reduce the amount of time spent in emergency departments. The current measure, which requires 95 per cent of patients to be seen within four hours, will be substituted with a serious of…
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