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Sep 2022
The press director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has been suspended after she blocked bereaved families on Twitter. Tiffany Jones apologised “wholeheartedly” after she was found to have prevented parents of babies who died at maternity units from seeing her Twitter messages. She has since deleted her Twitter account. A review of…
06
Sep 2022
The NHS trust in Coventry and Warwickshire is recruiting an additional 1,000 nurses over the next five years to staff the region’s health and care services. The five-year plan named Project 1000 has been set up in response to the national shortage of nurses and students are being invited to Coventry University’s Nursing Careers…
06
Sep 2022
According to new research, chemists have identified how to destroy “forever chemicals” in a low-cost way for the first time. Scientists have linked exposure to the PFAS substances, at certain levels to serious health risks, including birth defects and cancer. The resistance of the chemicals to oil, water and stains makes them highly…
06
Sep 2022
Skin cancer specialists say they are concerned the pandemic has resulted in fewer people being treated after a drop in the number of melanoma diagnoses. Wayne Jaffe, a consultant at University Hospital of North Midlands, said his team were seeing people with more advanced stages of the disease. Figures show that diagnoses of…
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Sep 2022
A damning report by the Care Quality Commission has described bosses at South Central Ambulance Service as “out of touch” and rated the service as inadequate following an inspection in April and May. The report said delays contributed to the death of an elderly patient, while ambulances with patients on board endured waits of…
06
Sep 2022
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has summoned the bosses of the six worst-performing NHS trusts – Cornwall, Gloucester, Plymouth, Leicester, Birmingham and Worcester – for a discussion over ambulance handover delays. Following weeks of stories emerging about elderly people enduring waits of up to 40 hours for an ambulance and then being stuck outside hospital,…
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