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Jun 2022
Diabetes UK is warning that doctors are seeing a “very concerning climb” in the number of children developing type-2 diabetes. The charity says high obesity levels could be to blame and poor diets linked to the cost-of-living crisis could be making a bad situation even worse. Data suggests the impact is being disproportionately…
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Jun 2022
A report has found that over two thirds of child deaths in Bradford occurred in the poorest areas of the city. The report by the city’s Child Death Overview Panel found that there were 142 deaths recorded in the district between 2019 and 2021, and figures showed that 68 per cent of the child…
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Jun 2022
A hospital has been ordered to make urgent improvements following a damning inspection during which its maternity unit was found to be unsafe. Inspectors found the department at Countess of Chester Hospital to have a dangerous lack of suitable equipment and staff numbers, and it also scored the lowest rate nationally for staff morale.…
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Jun 2022
Latest data released from the NHS shows that around 21 per cent of patients waited for longer than two weeks for a check-up with a cancer specialist in April following an urgent referral from a GP, and 35 per cent waited for longer than the target time of two months for treatment. Professor Pat…
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Jun 2022
Latest NHS figures show that nearly 6.5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment, meaning that one in nine people in the country are waiting for care such as hip and knee replacements, and eye surgery. One in twenty of these people have been waiting for longer than a year. However,…
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Jun 2022
Millions of patients could benefit after research into a new treatment for women with incurable breast cancer yielded “astonishing results”. The study saw women with a genetic abnormality in their cancer given a new drug known as capivasertib, combined with hormone therapy, and found that they could expect to survive up to twice as…
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