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Oct 2021
A senior councillor has said bosses at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, where maternity services were deemed unsafe by the Care Quality Commission, should resign. The health scrutiny committee at Nottinghamshire County Council said leaders at the trust were “fully responsible”. The units at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen’s Medical Centre were…
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Oct 2021
Nearly half of all serious incidents at a hospital trust earlier this year were related to maternity care, a situation which has been described as “disturbing” amid wider safety fears. Around 1,900 maternity cases were already under review at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, but data shows that 45 per cent of serious incidents…
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Oct 2021
GPs in England are being told to see more patients in person as long waits in A&E rise to their worst level since records began. The government has launched a £250m emergency rescue package so GP surgeries can take on more temporary staff. The news comes amid increasing criticism about the reduction in…
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Oct 2021
Children across most of Africa are to be immunised against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the fatal disease. The vaccine, RTS, S, was proven to be effective six years ago and now, following successful pilot vaccination programmes in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organisation have said it should…
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Oct 2021
Chadwick Lawrence medical negligence team recognised again by Legal 500 as recommended leading firm Chadwick Lawrence is pleased to announce that its medical negligence team have again been recommended as a “leading firm” in the 2022 publication of The Legal 500 UK, the world’s largest legal referral guide. The team are…
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Oct 2021
Research has shown that funding for healthy-lifestyle support such as obesity clinics and stop-smoking has been cut by a quarter in six years in England. The Health Foundation said councils had received £3.3bn to run these services this year, £1bn less than in 2015-16 once inflation had been taken into account. It added…
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