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Feb 2022
Women could be denied home births and be unable to give birth at their local hospital as understaffed maternity units face loss of up to 2,000 midwives. Hospital chiefs are warning that mothers-to-be could be denied a home birth or have less choices in the event of an exodus of midwives triggered by compulsory…
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Feb 2022
The Care Quality Commission has found that midwives at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were worried about being too exhausted to keep patients safe, and has lowered its rating for maternity services at the trust. An inspection was carried out following concerns raised by staff whistleblowers and complaints from patients. The trust is…
25
Jan 2022
Pregnant women have been urged to get vaccinated following a new study which found an increased risk of birth-related complications after getting Covid-19. Sir Michael McBride, chief medical officer for Northern Ireland, said Covid in the later stages “can have serious consequences for both mother and baby” and that having Covid-19 during pregnancy “carries…
25
Jan 2022
Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham, has said that non-urgent surgery and hospital appointments will restart in the region this week. He said elective activity would restart “with day cases” in the next few days and “progressively increase” after that, although he did say that services in the region remained under “considerable pressure”. Mr Burnham…
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Jan 2022
New figures show that waiting times in Scottish accident and emergency departments were the worst on record in the first week of 2022, and that almost a third of the 21,163 patients going to A&E took more than four hours to be attended to. The figure of 67.4 per cent meeting the four hour…
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Jan 2022
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has been ordered to improve emergency and urgent care. Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found “risks to patients were not always recognised” and rated emergency care as inadequate. The health watchdog made the unannounced inspection in September of last year in response to…
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