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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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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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