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Nov 2020
CQC inspectors found just two nurses responsible for 36 patients on a ward at Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and vulnerable patients at the centre of England’s coronavirus second wave have been left without help to eat or drink because wards are so dangerously understaffed. Dozens of safety concerns have been reported by nurses and doctors…
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Nov 2020
The Royal College of Nursing, said any plans to cope with the second wave of Covid-19 created by the government and NHS needs to be based on reality and specifically the number of nurses “actually available”. The union issued its warning as England went into a second national lockdown in a further attempt to suppress…
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Nov 2020
A new report which analysed data from over 17,000 cases of ovarian cancer diagnosed across England between 2016 and 2018, found that 60 per cent of women over the age of 79 did not receive either surgery or chemotherapy, while 37 per cent of women over the age of 70 did not receive any treatment.…
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Nov 2020
The number of people waiting over a year for hospital treatment in England has reached it’s highest level since 2008. Although patients are meant to be seen within 18 weeks, nearly 140,000 of the 4.35 million on the waiting list at the end of September had been waiting for over a year. Surgeons have said…
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Nov 2020
A study from Princeton University has suggested that large outbreaks of diseases such as flu could emerge once social distancing measures end. The researchers said that interventions such as social distancing and the wearing of masks, introduced to reduce the spread of Covid-19, had also lowered the incidence of illnesses including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)…
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Nov 2020
Lockdown measures in England have resulted in thousands fewer children receiving vital immunisations. During the first coronavirus wave, the government issued advice that children should continue to receive vaccinations as scheduled, but despite this advice, some appointments were delayed and the vaccination numbers fell compared to 2019. Public Health England looked at data from around…
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