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Mar 2023
NHS bosses are warning that progress being made on tackling the hospital waiting backlog will be put at risk by next week’s junior doctors’ strike. Prof Sir Stephen Powis, NHS England’s medical director, said there had been huge achievements made over winter, but he said it was inevitable this week’s 72-hour walkout in England…
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Mar 2023
Health chiefs say the Bristol Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) will expand the UK’s ability to research and develop new therapies. The Filton centre will look at incurable diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell, and officials say it could also offer personalised gene therapy and stem cell treatments in the future. …
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Mar 2023
Derriford Hospital’s maternity service has been ratee as requires improvement by the Care Quality Commission, who found there were not enough staff to care for women and keep them safe at the Plymouth hospital. The service which is run by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, was previously rated as good in 2019. Sue…
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Mar 2023
An expert who wrote a damning report into the trust’s baby death scandal has branded the government’s initial response as “disappointing”. Dr Bill Kirkup’s review last year found that at least 45 babies might have survived with better care at East Kent NHS. Although women’s health minister Maria Caulfield said the government is…
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Mar 2023
A leading cardiologist has warned that heart disease is the biggest killer of women worldwide but remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Dr Susan Connolly, a consultant a Galway University Hospital, said it was crucial women were aware of the risks of heart disease and added that the perception that it largely affects men needed to…
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Mar 2023
Scientists say a new drug could help increase survival rates of more people with bone cancer, particularly children. Researchers at the University of East Anglia said CADD522 works against all the main types of primary bone cancer. Cancer that starts in the bones, rather than that has spread to the bones, predominantly affects…
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