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Oct 2022
President Joe Biden has hit the headlines again in recent weeks for what appears to have been another senior moment, having called out to a recently deceased reporter at a press conference. The President’s ongoing confusion has been evident on several occasions, but how can you distinguish between simple confusion – let’s face it, it…
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Oct 2022
A fundraising target to allow a ground-breaking machine treating cancer patients to be kept in the UK has been reached after cancer charity Planets raised £1m to buy the device. Mobetron, which gives patients a high dose of radiation during surgery to help prevent the return of tumours, will continue to be used at…
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Oct 2022
Doctors recruited from some of the world’s poorest countries to work in hospitals throughout the UK say they’re being exploited and are concerned they are so overworked they fear putting patients’ safety at risk. An investigation by the BBC has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being recruited by a British healthcare company…
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Oct 2022
Latest figures have shown that the waiting list for hospital treatment in England has hit a record high of seven million, and analysis has shown that the risk is being driven by the inability of hospitals to get back to full strength rather than an increase in demand. Hospitals are undertaking 12 per cent…
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Oct 2022
Clifton House Care Home in Birmingham, which left two patients in a pool of urine, has been rated inadequate and placed in special measures. Staff at the care home did not assist the patients until asked by inspectors, according to the Care Quality Commission. The report added that patients were not treated in a…
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Oct 2022
Blood supplies in England have dropped to a critically low level, which has prompted NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) to declare its firs amber alert. The shortage, which is thought to be behind a lack of staff to care for people giving blood, means that hospitals may have to postpone some elective surgery, but emergency…
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