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Dec 2020
With nine out of ten hospitals reporting at least one vacancy, over a million operations could be delayed due to widespread shortages of anaesthetists in the NHS. More than 140,000 NHS patients have already waited over a year for treatment due to the pandemic, and the Health Foundation have warned that 4.7 million fewer patients…
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Dec 2020
The WHO has warned that the world’s poorest and most vulnerable must not be “trampled in the stampede” for Covid-19 vaccines. Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said vaccines must be distributed equitably and that £3.2bn was needed to help fund a sharing scheme. He said the question was “not whether the world can afford to…
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Nov 2020
CQC inspectors found just two nurses responsible for 36 patients on a ward at Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and vulnerable patients at the centre of England’s coronavirus second wave have been left without help to eat or drink because wards are so dangerously understaffed. Dozens of safety concerns have been reported by nurses and doctors…
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Nov 2020
The Royal College of Nursing, said any plans to cope with the second wave of Covid-19 created by the government and NHS needs to be based on reality and specifically the number of nurses “actually available”. The union issued its warning as England went into a second national lockdown in a further attempt to suppress…
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Nov 2020
A new report which analysed data from over 17,000 cases of ovarian cancer diagnosed across England between 2016 and 2018, found that 60 per cent of women over the age of 79 did not receive either surgery or chemotherapy, while 37 per cent of women over the age of 70 did not receive any treatment.…
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Nov 2020
The number of people waiting over a year for hospital treatment in England has reached it’s highest level since 2008. Although patients are meant to be seen within 18 weeks, nearly 140,000 of the 4.35 million on the waiting list at the end of September had been waiting for over a year. Surgeons have said…
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