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Jul 2023
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) has unreservedly apologised to families following a review into claims it covered up mistakes by paramedics and withheld evidence from coroners. Two patient deaths in 2018 and 2019 were raised by a whistleblower last year. Helen Ray, chief executive of the trust, said she was sorry “for any…
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Jul 2023
NHS figures for the end of May show that a record 7.47 million people are currently waiting to start routine hospital treatment, up from 7.42 million in April – the highest number since records began in 2007. 385,000 people have been waiting for longer than a year to start treatment. The prime minister…
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Jul 2023
The Care Quality Commission have said an ambulance trust, which was criticised in a damning report, still needs to make improvements to some of its services. Although the CQC said the North East Ambulance Service had made “some improvement” and moved them from “inadequate” to “requires improvement”, the health watchdog identified concerns during a…
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Jul 2023
A Southampton hospital has described allegations of bullying amongst its staff as “upsetting and shocking”. University Hospital Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust said comments were made on a private social media group by “current and former staff” who described their “experiences of bullying” within its hospitals. In a statement, Steve Harris, the trust’s…
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Jul 2023
A new study suggests that smartwatches may help diagnose Parkinson’s disease up to seven years ahead of any symptoms. Cardiff University’s UK Dementia Research Institute team used artificial intelligence to analyse data from 103,712 smartwatch wearers. By tracking their speed of movement over the course of a week between 2013 and 2016, they were…
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Jul 2023
An expert has warned that current protections for NHS staff to speak out about wrongdoing may be insufficient to prevent another major scandal like that at the Mid Staffordshire hospital trust. Sir Robert Francis led the inquiry into hundreds of patient deaths at Stafford Hospital over ten years ago and said that despite subsequent…
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