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Feb 2020
Current recommendations are that in cases where ovarian cancer has returned following initial treatment, further surgery takes place in some cases to remove as much of the cancer as possible before recommencing chemotherapy treatment. However, hard evidence to support this practice is not available. Now, following the result of a large clinical trial undertaken by…
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Feb 2020
NHS England have announced an independent review which is to take place into maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust following the deaths of 15 babies there in recent years. Earlier this week, the trust’s chief executive said that there had been “six or seven” avoidable deaths at two hospitals in Margate and Ashford…
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Feb 2020
Within the Children Commissioner for England’s recent briefing, ‘The state of children’s mental health services’, it has been noted that whilst improvements have been made to the NHS’s mental health services for children, it is evident that there is a large gap between what children need and the current provisions. Anne Longfield noted that around…
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Feb 2020
As highly specialist West Yorkshire medical negligence solicitors, we at Chadwick Lawrence are currently investigating and dealing with enquiries by former Spire Hospital patients who have received a letter from Spire Hospital about a suspended Orthopaedic Surgeon who is being investigated by the GMC and the Care Quality Commission and is no longer practising. If…
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Feb 2020
From April, the estimated 600,000 women who have babies each year in England will be given a physical and mental health check six weeks after giving birth, with either a GP or practice nurse at their surgery. The aim of the appointments, which will be separate to the six-week check that babies already receive, will…
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Feb 2020
Figures released by campaign group Diabetes Scotland show the number of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Scotland has increased by 40% in ten years, with cases rising from 190,772 in 2008 to 267,615 in 2018. It is also believed that there are an estimated 26,347 people living with the condition who have yet…
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