07
May 2019
Maternity services at the Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals in south Wales have been placed into special measures following serious incidents and concerns raised regarding the deaths of a number of babies. 25 serious incidents took place between January 2016 and September 2018, including four neonatal deaths and eight stillbirths. This led to a…
07
May 2019
Recent trials have found that urine testing was as effective at detecting the HPV virus as a smear test, which could be a potential game-changer at a time when the number of women attending smear tests in the UK has reached an all-time low. In the trials, 104 women were asked to attend a colposcopy…
07
May 2019
A recent poll by Pancreatic Cancer UK has revealed that the vast majority of GPs admit they would struggle to recognise the early signs of pancreatic cancer, often calling the disease ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in the UK – around 10,000 people are…
07
May 2019
Experts are warning that the elderly are regularly being prescribed unnecessary diabetes medication, due to a reward scheme which incentivises GPs for prescribing drugs. Diabetes specialists have said the overtreatment, which dates as far back as 15 years, means that frail people are being put at increased risk of falls, dementia and cognitive impairment. The…
30
Apr 2019
Evidence will start to be heard this week in the public inquiry into what has been named “the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS”. The inquiry will look into the 4,800 haemophiliac patients who were infected with HIV or hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s, resulting in the deaths of more…
30
Apr 2019
A new criminal inquiry is to take place into the deaths of hundreds of Gosport War Memorial Hospital patients, who were given ‘dangerous’ levels of opiate drugs between 1989 and 2000. Relatives of the 456 patients who died were told at a recent meeting that a ‘full investigation’ would begin shortly and that statements would…
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