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Jan 2016
Official figures released by NHS England have shown that for the month of November, many waiting time targets were missed by hospitals in England. Key targets missed included cancer services, ambulances and the 111 telephone service, with A&E departments only seeing 91.3% of patients within the four hour waiting time target, which is the worst…
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Jan 2016
An investigation by the BBC has discovered that many English GP surgeries have stopped or applied to stop taking on new patients. According to the British Medical Association, many have reached “breaking point” as they are having difficulty filling staff vacancies. A Freedom of Information request has revealed that in the year 2014-15, more than…
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Jan 2016
A midwife has been found guilty of deliberately drugging 15 patients, apparently in order to make her work easier, which left 13 of the patients needing to undergo caesarean sections to save the lives of their babies. The patients were administered with Syntocinon, a labour-inducing drug, which resulted in the heartbeats of some of the…
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Dec 2015
A team of experts from MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk Through Audits and Confidential Enquiries) has called for a review by NHS health boards and trusts into their maternity care to see whether deaths amongst babies were due to mistakes. Out of 162 trusts and boards, 21 were red flagged and told that a…
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Dec 2015
A study, published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, has suggested that fewer patients undergoing emergency surgery die in hospitals that have higher staffing levels. The research, which analysed data relating to nearly 295,000 patients, also found that patients were more likely to die after a weekend admission. They said this showed that staffing had…
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Dec 2015
According to public spending watchdog The National Audit Office, the NHS is facing an unprecedented funding black hole and this year, trusts in England are expected to accrue deficits in excess of £2.2 billion. The financial positions of NHS and foundation trusts have deteriorated substantially since 2014-15 when they stood at £843 million. The Government…
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