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Jun 2021
A safety watchdog has warned that life-saving oxygen is at risk of not reaching patients in hospital because of problems with how it is piped around wards. A review by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) said several hospitals in England faced difficulties during the winter Covid wave, saying that outdated systems used to pump…
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Jun 2021
The Royal College of Nursing in Scotland has lodged a formal trade dispute with the Scottish government for the first time in a disagreement over pay. The union said staff were exhausted, and that worrying numbers were considering leaving the profession. Last month, the Scottish government confirmed an NHS pay deal that would see most…
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Jun 2021
Matt Hancock has said NHS patients in England will have greater control over their health and social care data under plans set out by the government, meaning patients will be able to access their medical records from different parts of the NHS through various apps. However, critics have voiced their concerns that data could be…
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Jun 2021
Under Welsh government targets, people classified as having the highest risk of going blind should be seen no later than 25 per cent beyond their target appointment date, meaning a patient given an eight week maximum waiting time target should be seen within ten weeks. However, recent figures show that in April, none of Wales’…
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Jun 2021
Experts say a high-tech treatment could be key to addressing the NHS backlog of cancer patients fuelled by the Covid pandemic. Proton beam therapy, which became available in the UK three years ago, can now be used to treat 2,000 patients in Britain at any one time. NHS figures show 45,000 fewer cancer patients than…
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Jun 2021
New research has suggested that an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s had mixed results, reducing biomarkers of the disease without significantly affecting cognitive decline. In a clinical trial led by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, patients were given a drug called gantenerumab. The results of the trial showed that there…
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