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Jul 2022
A care home in Leicester has been told it must make urgent improvements after being rated inadequate by inspectors. The Care Quality Commission said Queens Park Care Home, which looks after up to 16 patients with physical disabilities and mental health problems, was visited in May. Inspectors said that while infection control protocols…
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Jul 2022
Doctors throughout England are to be given mandatory training to better treat female medical conditions under wider plans to improve women’s health. Plans include an expansion to free access to NHS fertility treatment and there will be more funding for mobile breast cancer screening. The government said the changes, which are part of…
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Jul 2022
NHS chiefs are warning that some services may have to be cut to fund the proposed pay award in England. The government has announced doctors will receive a pay rise of 4.5 per cent and other staff an average of 4.75 per cent, an increase which has been backed by NHS England. The…
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Jul 2022
Researchers say they have found that radiotherapy for brain cancer is less risky than previously thought. The treatment kills cancer cells by ‘zapping’ tumours with high-energy radiation, but this can also damage healthy tissue and in rare cases, raise the risk of another cancer developing. However, researchers at the University of Birmingham found…
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Jul 2022
Cancer charity Radiotherapy UK says waiting times for cancer treatment are longer in the Midlands than anywhere else in the country, adding that in the region 46.5 per cent of patients are waiting longer than 62 days for treatment following an urgent referral. It said the percentage was 64.5 per cent for the Birmingham…
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Jul 2022
Donna Ockenden, who chaired a review into the deaths of over 200 babies at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, is meeting families, many of whom had babies who died or were left with serious injuries due to failings at Nottingham’s maternity units. Figures show that between 2005/6 and 2020/21, there were a total…
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