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Mar 2021
New data revealing a significant drop in urgent referrals for suspected cancers in England and a plummeting quality of life among patients awaiting knee and hip surgery in the UK has shown the Covid pandemic has cast a wide shadow over the nation’s health. The crisis has caused a significant disruption to healthcare services over…
30
Mar 2021
Some viruses are known to complete to be the one that causes an infection, and now University of Glasgow scientists say it appears the cold-causing rhinovirus suppresses coronavirus. Although they say the benefits may be short-lived, rhinovirus is so widespread that it could still help to trump coronavirus. The research team at the Centre for…
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Mar 2021
Health board chiefs have been criticised for infection prevention failures at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow, following an independent review from which it was found that 84 children had been infected with rare bacteria while undergoing treatment, with a third suffering a severe health impact. The review was commissioned by the health…
30
Mar 2021
In response to the maternity scandal at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, it is understood that around 80 obstetrics consultants and up to 1,000 midwives are to be recruited in a new £100m funding commitment aimed at improving maternity safety in England. In an initial report published last year, Donna Ockenden, the midwife leading…
30
Mar 2021
The government has announced that families in England who lost relatives due to the NHS blood infection scandal are to receive the same payments as those in other parts of the UK. Approximately 3,000 people have died after being given blood containing hepatitis C and HIV during the 1970s and 1980s. The infections occurred when…
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Mar 2021
According to Professor Marcel Levi, chief executive of the University College London Hospital Trust, the NHS was already running at nearly full capacity with long waits for routine operations even before the virus arrived. In an interview with the BBC, Professor Levi said that it could take “a very long time” to clear the backlog…
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