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Jul 2022
An ‘acute pressure’ on beds has led to hospital chiefs in Cornwall to declare an internal critical incident. The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) said bed blocking, which had increased by more than 20 per cent since April, had been holding up ambulances. Patients with non-emergency needs have been asked to contact…
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Jul 2022
Extremely high demand has led to all ambulance services in England being placed on the “highest alert level”. NHS trusts say a combination of hot weather, delays handing patients over to accident and emergency units, and staff Covid absences, have caused problems. Ambulance services have urged people to stay safe during the heatwave,…
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Jul 2022
Patients are facing waits of longer than 12 hours at an emergency department where hospital chiefs have claimed to have never seen it so busy, and have urged anyone with non-life or non-limb threatening injuries to go to urgent treatment centres instead. Dr Trevor Smith, deputy chief medical officer, said the situation was “extreme”.…
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Jul 2022
A Wakefield ultrasound clinic where some patients were incorrectly told they had miscarried and babies’ genders were incorrectly identified has been closed. The Baby Ultrasound Clinic was rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors identified “significant safety concerns”. Other issues included a lack of staff training and poor infection control. …
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Jul 2022
Up to 25 per cent of patients being referred with urgent suspicion of cancer are waiting longer than the 62-day target for their first treatment. New figures from Public Health Scotland show performance against the target dropped to 76.9 per cent in the first three months of this year. The rate was the lowest…
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Jul 2022
A whistleblower is warning that ‘toxic’ working conditions are resulting in nursing staff leaving Southend University Hospital’s emergency department. The experienced A&E nurse claimed staff felt “helpless and unsupported” and “completely broken”, adding that around 15 nurses had recently left to work in different departments or even resigned from the NHS. Mid and…
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