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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…
06
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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Aug 2022
In the recent case of Bailey v Stonewall Equality Ltd and Others ET/2202172/2020 the employment tribunal held that a barrister was subject to direct discrimination and victimisation by her chambers due to her gender critical philosophical beliefs. Allison Bailey is a criminal barrister and worked at Garden Court Chambers. In 2019, Ms Bailey co-founded the…
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Aug 2022
An ambulance service has warned patient lives are at risk due to long delays in handovers. The director of South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said bed-blocking was the reason for delays in transferring patients from an ambulance to hospital and a spokesperson said it was “soul-destroying” for their paramedics. An official…
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Aug 2022
The Royal College of Midwives has warned that ‘plummeting’ midwives risk the health of staff, mothers and babies, adding that more investment in maternity services was needed to ensure the safety and quality of care. Dr Suzannel Tyler, executive director of the RCM, said midwives and maternity support workers were “buckling with the sheer…
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