NHS Cancer Treatment Waiting Times Worst on Record
Over halfway through the year, new figures show that 133,843 cancer patients have not been treated within the relevant standards. NHS cancer treatment waiting […]
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Diabetes Prescriptions Cost the NHS More than £1bn A Year
Diabetes prescriptions are costing the NHS in England more than £1 billion a year, according to new figures from NHS Digital, up by almost […]
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Health Secretary Details ‘Prevention’ Plan to Tackle NHS Issues
People must take more responsibility for managing their own health, the health minister has said, as he launched the latest NHS long-term strategy. The […]
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South East Coast Ambulance Service in ‘Special Measures’
An ambulance trust is to stay in special measures after the Care Quality Commission said it was too early to judge if improvements were […]
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NHS In Desperate Need of More Child Psychiatrists
The number of NHS psychiatrists treating children and young people is falling, despite a large rise in demand among under-18s needing urgent mental health […]
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Over 80,000 Women Face Severe Delays in Cervical Smear Test Results
More than 80,000 women in Ireland are waiting up to 18 weeks for smear test results because of severe backlogs and delays, new figures […]
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UK Infant Mortality Could be 140% Higher than Other Countries by 2030
Infant deaths in England could be 140% higher than other western countries in little more than a decade, according to doctors. The mortality rate […]
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Safety of Children and Young People at Birmingham NHS Trust ‘Inadequate’
The safety of children and young people’s services was rated “inadequate” in one area following a Care Quality Commission (CQC) visit to Birmingham Community […]
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Doctors to see ‘15 patients at a time’
It has been claimed that group consultations of up to “15 patients at a time” are likely to be made “the default” under new […]
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Health Secretary Proposes Using Your Phone Data to Predict New Health Threats
Matt Hancock, the new health secretary, has proposed that people’s medical records should be combined with social and smartphone data to predict who will […]
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Hospital Overcrowding Behind “Huge” Rise in Sepsis Deaths
New figures have shown that the number of sepsis deaths recorded in England’s hospitals has risen by more than a third in two years. […]
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Headway Releases New Acquired Brain Injury Statistics
By using 2016-17 hospital admission statistics, Headway has compiled the first dataset on all Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)-related hospital admissions in the UK. This […]
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