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Nov 2022
Latest NHS England figures show that a record number of people had a long wait to be seen in A&E departments in October, with over 550,000 waiting for longer than four hours in major A&E units, up from 492,000 in September, the highest proportion on record. The Society of Acute Medicine warned the situation…
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Nov 2022
Patients with untreatable cancers have had their immune system redesigned to attack their own tumours. The experimental research, which involved 16 patients, has been called a “leap forward” and a “powerful” demonstration of the potential of such technology. Each patient involved in the study had a treatment which had been developed specifically for…
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Nov 2022
The GMB Union has said paramedics are waiting “for several hours” to drop patients off at an A&E department. A video filmed Deanne Ferguson of the union showed a line of ambulances outside Scarborough Hospital earlier this week. Yorkshire Ambulance Service said there were handover delays at hospitals while the hospital rust said it…
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Nov 2022
A new treatment to protect babies against a common and potentially dangerous winter virus has been approved by the UK regulator. The single antibody injection helps to stop infants getting chest infections such as pneumonia for around six months. A large study has now commenced to determined whether nirsevimab should now be offered…
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Nov 2022
Recent analysis by the BBC has shown that the number of patients waiting longer than the 62 day target time for cancer therapy in the last year has exceeded 67,000 across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland – twice as many as the same period in 2017-18. The national cancer director for NHS England said…
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Nov 2022
A new study has revealed that the number of people aged under-40 with type 2 diabetes has increased by almost a quarter in five years. The disease is typically linked to unhealthy lifestyles and until recently was relatively rare in younger patients according to new analysis by Diabetes UK. The charity warns the…
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