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Sep 2020
A new report has revealed that a spreadsheet error started a series of events that delayed the opening of a £150m hospital. Last-minute ventilation issues prevented the opening of Edinburgh’s new children’s hospital in July 2019, the mistake being missed in what auditors describe as a “collective failure”. It was only following the hospital’s being…
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Sep 2020
Experts have warned that as heart failure is seen as a ‘man’s disease’, women are waiting six times longer than men to be diagnosed, and are twice as likely to be misdiagnosed with a condition such as depression or asthma, waiting for an average of 20 weeks for the condition to be identified, compared to…
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Aug 2020
Two recent cases highlighted in the press demonstrate the high standards expected of those providing legal services. In one case a solicitor convicted of drink driving was fined £1,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the SRA) for a failure to promptly report his conviction to the regulator. The solicitor in question was convicted in June…
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Aug 2020
Scientists say that a heel-prick blood test could predict which children will develop type 1 diabetes, adding that up to 75 per cent of cases could be diagnosed by scouring the blood for biomarkers of the condition. Currently, children are usually in their mid-teens by the time they are diagnosed with the disease, by which…
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Aug 2020
A hi-tech pen has been developed which uses a beam of light to destroy cancer cells left behind following the removal of a tumour. Rogue cells can increase the chances of cancer returning. After breast cancer surgery, around 20 per cent of women in the UK experience a recurrence in this way. The Canady Helios…
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Aug 2020
A new scan, which is being hailed as a “game-changer” is being used to detect early cancer signs by creating a GPS-style map of patients’ lungs. The electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) is currently being used at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire, only the second hospital in the UK to use the equipment following a donation…
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