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Oct 2022
Latest figures have shown that over 350 patients spent longer than 30 hours waiting in Accident & Emergency at Lincoln County Hospital during the summer, the longest wait being almost 50 hours. The national target is that a minimum of 95 per cent of A&E patients should be dealt with within four hours. …
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Oct 2022
In the early medieval period, justice was often administered by a local lord. In England, during the 12th century, King Henry II sought to impose a national common law to override the more arbitrary power of his barons. Over the next century, professional attorneys and advocates began to represent clients in common law disputes…
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Oct 2022
A health trust is starting its own home care service to free up hospital beds and ease staffing pressure. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust informed local councillors that a lack of local authority care meant patients had to wait in hospital rather than be discharged home. The trust said that the new service,…
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Oct 2022
Doctors in Somerset are reaching out to parents with babies to take part in a “ground-breaking” respiratory virus jab trial. The Harmonie study aims to develop a vaccine that will significantly reduce the number of babies admitted to hospital with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and is looking to recruit 150 infants for the study…
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Oct 2022
Hull Royal Infirmary has urged people to avoid A&E for non-urgent conditions, warning that it is under “significant strain”. The hospital said it had seen very high numbers of people attending the department resulting in lengthy waits and in a recent statement urged people to use alternative services such as urgent treatment centres, enabling…
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Oct 2022
The Care Quality Commission published a heavily critical report on South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) following inspections in April and May. The report said the crews needed more training and more regular defibrillator checks. SCAS said the report had highlighted some “serious concerns, which we must, and will, fix as a matter of…
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