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May 2015
In the first three months of this year, over 20,000 NHS operations were cancelled at the last minute, the highest proportion in the last two years (one in every 100). Although an alternative date or private treatment should be offered within 28 days, the number of patients not being seen is the highest in ten…
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May 2015
Cancer Research UK has warned that increasing pressure on cancer services within the NHS are impacting on the capacity to provide world leading scientific research and life-saving medical breakthroughs. Although there are internationally recognised cancer scientists and specialist centres within the NHS, such as London’s Royal Marsden and Imperial, and Manchester’s Christies hospitals, a survey…
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May 2015
NHS figures have shown that more serious patient safety rules were breached in the last year by Colchester Hospital University Trust than any other trust in England. Nine errors considered so serious that they should never happen occurred at the trust in a 12 month period between 2014 and 2015, with as many as 420…
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May 2015
A major study has shown that advanced prostate cancer patients lives are being extended by nearly two years when they receive early treatment with chemotherapy drug docetaxel. The drug us usually given to patients after hormone treatment has failed. But the results of the study, based on a trial in Britain and Switzerland, have shown…
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May 2015
Doctors’ leaders writing in the British Medical Journal have urged medics to stop ‘over-treating’ their patients, warning that this action could be harming them. There is also a suggestion that patients are having tests or being given medication that they do not need, because doctors are feeling under pressure to act. According to the Academy…
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May 2015
Sepsis is one of the biggest, and possibly least well-known, health threats faced today. Each year, over 100,000 patients are admitted to hospital with the condition, and around 37,000 die, which is more than the number of deaths from bowel cancer and breast cancer combined. Sepsis, which can be set off by any viral or…
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