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Aug 2022
The birthing unit in Maldon has been closed due to lack of staff. The decision to close the unit means women in the Chelmsford, Maldon and Braintree areas will only be able to give birth at Broomfield Hospital or opt for a home birth. A spokesperson for the trust said “The safety of…
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Aug 2022
Scientists have successfully changed the blood type of donor kidneys in a discovery which could increase the supply of the organs for transplant. The breakthrough may have particular implications for minority ethnic groups who often finding it harder to find a match. A kidney from a donor with blood type A cannot be…
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Aug 2022
Recent analysis has found the NHS in England is increasingly reliant on doctors and nurses recruited from outside the UK and EU, with some 34 per cent of doctors joining the health service last year from overseas, a rise from 18 per cent in 2014. The government has said overseas recruitment has always been…
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Aug 2022
The government is expected to announce this week that payments of £100,000 are to be made to victims of the contaminated blood scandal. Thousands of people contracted hepatitis C or HIV in the 1970s and 1980s through NHS treatments and over 2,400 people have died as a result. A source from Downing Street…
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Aug 2022
A New York State doctor has warned there could be hundreds or even thousands of undiagnosed cases of polio within the state. The warning follows a recent announcement that an unvaccinated man had been paralysed by the virus in Rockland County, New York. Dr Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, Rockland County’s health commissioner, said she…
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Aug 2022
The new NHS-funded lung screening pilot, which is aimed at current and former smokers in Cornwall aged between 55 and 75, has started across the county. Health officials said the initiative would prolong lives by detecting lung cancer earlier. Lung cancer is currently one of the most common and serious types of the…
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