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Dec 2021
Plans for a £10m cancer diagnosis centre at South Tyneside District Hospital have been approved, meaning local residents will no longer have to travel to Middlesbrough or Newcastle for scans. The new diagnostic centre, which will feature the latest scanning equipment, is hoped to open towards the end of next year, and will replace…
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Dec 2021
The current crisis in overwhelmed A&E units has meant that more than 220 patients a day are having vital operations cancelled. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine found that 6,726 elective operations were cancelled in November, in addition to 6,335 in the previous month. They added that ‘unsustainable’ pressures linked to the casualty…
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Dec 2021
The Care Quality Commission have placed two care homes in Suffolk in special measures over concerns for the safety of residents. Highfield House Care Home in Halesworth and Priory Paddocks Nursing Home in Darsham have both been rated “inadequate” following recent inspections by the health watchdog. Inspectors at Priory Paddocks found “incidents of…
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Dec 2021
A new cancer treatment currently being trialled in ten places including Northampton Hospital, which removes the need for surgery or traditional radiotherapy “could be a norm for the future” according to a hospital clinician. The Skin Brachytherapy trial works by placing a small plate over the cancer and channelling radiation into a localised area.…
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Dec 2021
A councillor at Cheltenham Borough Council has warned that Gloucestershire’s health and social care services need more facilities, staff and beds, adding that they need additional government support because their hospitals cannot meet capacity. In a joint statement with the NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust revealed that “over the…
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Dec 2021
The public services ombudsman for Wales said the incident was “completely avoidable” and recommend health officials make a redress payment of £10,000. The patient was initially referred to Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales with suspected appendicitis. Following a number of scans and tests, he was wrongly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, and colon surgery was…
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