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Sep 2020
Experts are warning that complacency over the flu jab risks overwhelming the NHS, as data reveals the scale of the challenge in expending the vaccination programme. Although the government announced last month their plans to double the number of people who receive the vaccination, analysis has found that the take-up rate among people in vulnerable…
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Sep 2020
East Kent Hospitals have been accused of covering up the deaths of newborns and referring only a handful of infant fatalities to coroners, even though many more were unexplained and sudden. The trust is currently the subject of a major independent inquiry following concerns that at least 15 newborns may have needlessly died since 2011.…
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Sep 2020
A new report has revealed that a spreadsheet error started a series of events that delayed the opening of a £150m hospital. Last-minute ventilation issues prevented the opening of Edinburgh’s new children’s hospital in July 2019, the mistake being missed in what auditors describe as a “collective failure”. It was only following the hospital’s being…
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Sep 2020
Experts have warned that as heart failure is seen as a ‘man’s disease’, women are waiting six times longer than men to be diagnosed, and are twice as likely to be misdiagnosed with a condition such as depression or asthma, waiting for an average of 20 weeks for the condition to be identified, compared to…
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Aug 2020
Two recent cases highlighted in the press demonstrate the high standards expected of those providing legal services. In one case a solicitor convicted of drink driving was fined £1,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the SRA) for a failure to promptly report his conviction to the regulator. The solicitor in question was convicted in June…
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Aug 2020
Scientists say that a heel-prick blood test could predict which children will develop type 1 diabetes, adding that up to 75 per cent of cases could be diagnosed by scouring the blood for biomarkers of the condition. Currently, children are usually in their mid-teens by the time they are diagnosed with the disease, by which…
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