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Jan 2017
Doctors have warned that patients are facing ‘dangerous’ delays in NHS treatment due to a huge increase in referral management centres. The centres, which were introduced in 2003, were brought about in an attempt to reduce unnecessary hospital referrals and reduce NHS spending, and in the last decade, there has been a 10-fold increase in…
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Jan 2017
Patients are being urged to be on the look-out for the warning signs of sepsis this winter amid concerns that a lack of education could lead to people staying away from surgeries, mistaking their symptoms for flu or a common cold. In Wales alone, around 1,800 people die each year from sepsis, with one of…
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Jan 2017
The life-extending drug, Kadcyla, has been rejected by NICE for NHS use in England, believing that the price is too expensive. In clinical trials, Kadcyla, which costs an average of £90,000 per patient, was found to extend terminal breast cancer patients’ lives by around six months, and also dramatically improves the patient’s quality of life…
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Jan 2017
The Royal College of Nursing has said that nurses have reported that current NHS conditions are the worst they have experienced. Janet Davies, the RCN’s chief executive, said that frontline nurses had informed her that, whilst they wanted to provide patients with the best care, they had been told to discharge them before they were…
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Jan 2017
A study conducted by Oxford University and published in the BMJ, has indicated that the NHS programme set up last year to screen patients at a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, is not likely to have much impact, concluding that inaccurate blood tests would give too many incorrect diagnoses. The UK’s National Diabetes…
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Jan 2017
Figures released by NHS England have shown that alerts have been issued by a third of England’s hospital trusts pleading for urgent action to be taken to help with the pressure of patient numbers. Seven of the 50 trusts involved warned that they were unable to provide comprehensive care to patients and that they ran…
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