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Jul 2021
South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) has said demands on its services were currently at levels usually seen over the new year period, adding that around 2,000 calls were coming in each day, 400 more than normal. They said that the demand surge had so far not been linked to Covid and urged people to only…
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Jul 2021
Apple has put together a list of products it says should be kept a “safe distance” away from medical devices like implanted defibrillators and pacemakers. The lists includes Apple Watch, MacBook Pro and iPhone 12 models. Many consumer-electronic devices contain components such as magnets which can interfere with medical devices. Apple said “Under certain conditions,…
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Jul 2021
A GP who wrote fake prescriptions has been suspended from the profession for a year. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal head that John McClelland created fraudulent drug prescriptions 22 times while working in Gateshead. Dr McClelland said he had no excuse, admitting his actions were “outrageous”. The tribunal heard that between June and December 2018, Dr…
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Jul 2021
It has been revealed that over 14,000 patients in Cumbria and the North East have been waiting longer than a year for non-emergency operations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. According to NHS figures, the figure in February 2020 was just 66. The government have said they were spending an additional £1bn nationally in…
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Jul 2021
A higher number of women who were mistakenly told they did not need cervical screening may have gone on to develop cancer. It was recently announced that a woman in Scotland had died from cervical cancer after being wrongly excluded from the country’s screening programme. She was among 434 women who were told they did…
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Jul 2021
Staff at Manchester’s Royal Infirmary say they were informed the hospital had declared a major incident earlier this week amid increasing pressures in its emergency department, fears of a shortage of staff and beds, and long waits for patients. A number of sources from different departments at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said staff…
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