07
Mar 2023
Family courts are continuing to experience a serious backlog, with some estimates putting the outstanding cases at over 110,000. This means that court proceedings are taking over 43 weeks to reach a final hearing on average, with many cases taking much longer. We look at alternative options. If you are going through a divorce, there…
07
Mar 2023
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has said that doctors, ambulance workers and other NHS staff in England have faced “significant distress” and harm over the past year as a result of long delays in emergency and urgent care. The health safety watchdog, which monitors safety in the NHS in England, said many staff…
07
Mar 2023
The Care Quality Commission has said Northampton General Hospital did not always have enough experienced and qualified maternity staff to keep women safe from avoidable harm. Figures obtained show that 49 serious incidents have occurred in the hospital’s maternity services in four years, who said they had undertaken “a lot of work” in the…
07
Mar 2023
Latest statistics show that the number of patients on hospital waiting lists in Scotland has risen again to almost 625,000. The number waiting for a planned operation or outpatient appointment, such as cataract removal or hip replacement, is almost double the average before the Covid pandemic. More patients continue to be added to…
07
Mar 2023
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are warning of a rise in a strain of a drug-resistant stomach bug that infects thousands of Americans each year. Shigella bacteria causes fever, stomach pain and diarrhoea. Since 2015, officials have noted an increase in cases linked to the drug-resistant strain. The inability…
07
Mar 2023
A new radiotherapy treatment machine has been installed at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. The Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) device, which is based at the Oncology & Haematology Centre at the hospital, uses many precisely targeted, high intensity radiation beams to treat brain tumours. The machine will provide treatment for people living with a…
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