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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…
07
May 2015
There have been a number of news publications reporting this week on a High Court case involving a child being removed from her surrogate mother to be raised by a gay couple. The Judge was required to determine the nature of an agreement reached between the parents when the child was conceived. The Judge found…
06
May 2015
A report has found that Britain has fewer doctors, nurses and crucial medical equipment than most other wealthy countries. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for every 10,000 people in 2012, there were only 2.8 doctors and 8.2 nurses. Other wealthy nations within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) had an average…
06
May 2015
Dr John Dean, who is based at the Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust, has described private healthcare as a ‘con’, with doctors more concerned about generating a ‘fat fee’ than providing the best care for their patients. Of the 40,000 NHS consultants in the UK, around 40 per cent undertake some extent of private…
05
May 2015
A damning report has shown that standards of care are much worse in areas where GPs do not provide evening and weekend services, and locum doctors are employed to take on that role. The research, carried out by the universities of Cambridge, Exeter and University College London, which involved a million patients, showed that locum…
05
May 2015
A report by Save the Children has found that the UK is ranked 24th in the charity’s annual State of the World’s Mothers Index, meaning that Britain’s expectant mothers have lower chances of survival than mothers in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and many former Soviet nations. Contributory factors for the poor ranking are obesity, high…
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