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Oct 2022
Over 160 members of staff have contacted a review team which is examining failings at maternity units run by a Nottingham hospital trust. The review, which was opened last month by Donna Ockenden who previously led an inquiry into the maternity scandal at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, will examine how dozens of babies…
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Oct 2022
A damning independent review has found that up to 45 babies might have survived if they had received better care at East Kent NHS Hospitals Trust. The review uncovered a “clear pattern” of “sub-optimal” care that led to significant harm, and added that families were ignored. The medical experts reviewed an 11-year period…
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Oct 2022
A care home, who “mixed up” elderly patients’ medicines, has been placed in special measures. The Care Quality Commission has downgraded Lyndhurst Residential Care Home in Middleton to “inadequate” following a visit in August. Inspectors noted that a care worker said staffing levels were “appalling”. The CQC first ordered the care home…
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Oct 2022
Ambulance workers at the trust said patients’ lives are being put at risk due to waiting outside hospitals “for hours on end”, adding that working conditions are “diabolical” and crews were “at the point of burn-out”. The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust said it was “working hard” to improve “wellbeing support”. …
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Oct 2022
The House of Commons’ Health Committee blamed the failure of the government to tackle doctor shortages, which had resulted in a decline in the traditional GP/patient relationship, adding that seeing a GP should not be likened to booking an Uber driver. The warning comes on the heels of ministers launching a drive to improve…
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Oct 2022
According to official statistics, up to 40,000 cancers went undiagnosed during the first year of Covid, laying bare the ‘true and catastrophic impact’ of the pandemic. In the year 2020, 290,000 people in England were diagnosed with cancer, down by approximately a tenth on the previous year, the biggest drop logged since records began…
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