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Feb 2022
Ministers are being warned that improvements in cancer care will be a huge challenge as they pledge a new ten-year strategy for England. Figures show that there have been 34,000 fewer cancer diagnoses since the start of the pandemic in England, 50,000 for the whole of the UK. Cancer charities have said there…
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Feb 2022
A breast cancer drug that can blast away tumours in weeks has been given the green light for NHS patients in Scotland, raising hopes that the rest of the UK will soon follow suit. Last October, England’s prescribing watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) failed to recommend the medication, tucatinib,…
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Feb 2022
A study has suggested that Coronavirus vaccines do not affect a woman’s ability to conceive a child. Researchers in New York monitored over 2,000 women undergoing in-vitro fertilisation or fertility treatment and found that rates of pregnancy were the same among unvaccinated women and those double-jabbed with Moderna or Pfizer, and said the findings…
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Feb 2022
Health officials have said that an increase in the number of missed GP appointments in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire is having an impact on services. According to the latest data, over 38,000 GP appointments across the two regions were missed in one month. Dr Satpal Shekhawat of North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group said…
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Feb 2022
Magistrates have approved the closure of a care home which was found to be “unsafe and understaffed” by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission. Following an unannounced inspection last November, Berrystead Nursing and Residential Home in Leicestershire was placed in special measures in January. The inspection revealed that there was only one working…
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Feb 2022
Staff shortages have affected one in three shifts in antenatal and postnatal wards at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast over the last six months. Around 15 per cent of shifts in the hospital’s labour wards have been affected by staff absences in the same period. However, the trust said the hospital…
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