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Aug 2022
A nurse who gave sugar and water to a brain tumour patient instead of morphine has been struck off. A misconduct hearing was told that Vijayan Rajoo, a nurse at St Fillians care home in Colchester, felt the patient did not need the pain relief. A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel said the…
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Aug 2022
The Care Quality Commission has said improvements are needed to reduce pressure on emergency and urgent care across West Yorkshire. Inspectors found that services were under ‘continued pressure’ and people had experienced delays accessing emergency care as a result. The report also found that there were issues with capacity and staffing, while some services…
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Aug 2022
The birthing unit in Maldon has been closed due to lack of staff. The decision to close the unit means women in the Chelmsford, Maldon and Braintree areas will only be able to give birth at Broomfield Hospital or opt for a home birth. A spokesperson for the trust said “The safety of…
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Aug 2022
Scientists have successfully changed the blood type of donor kidneys in a discovery which could increase the supply of the organs for transplant. The breakthrough may have particular implications for minority ethnic groups who often finding it harder to find a match. A kidney from a donor with blood type A cannot be…
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Aug 2022
Recent analysis has found the NHS in England is increasingly reliant on doctors and nurses recruited from outside the UK and EU, with some 34 per cent of doctors joining the health service last year from overseas, a rise from 18 per cent in 2014. The government has said overseas recruitment has always been…
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Aug 2022
The government is expected to announce this week that payments of £100,000 are to be made to victims of the contaminated blood scandal. Thousands of people contracted hepatitis C or HIV in the 1970s and 1980s through NHS treatments and over 2,400 people have died as a result. A source from Downing Street…
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