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Jun 2022
A hospital has been ordered to make urgent improvements following a damning inspection during which its maternity unit was found to be unsafe. Inspectors found the department at Countess of Chester Hospital to have a dangerous lack of suitable equipment and staff numbers, and it also scored the lowest rate nationally for staff morale.…
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Jun 2022
Latest data released from the NHS shows that around 21 per cent of patients waited for longer than two weeks for a check-up with a cancer specialist in April following an urgent referral from a GP, and 35 per cent waited for longer than the target time of two months for treatment. Professor Pat…
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Jun 2022
Latest NHS figures show that nearly 6.5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment, meaning that one in nine people in the country are waiting for care such as hip and knee replacements, and eye surgery. One in twenty of these people have been waiting for longer than a year. However,…
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Jun 2022
Millions of patients could benefit after research into a new treatment for women with incurable breast cancer yielded “astonishing results”. The study saw women with a genetic abnormality in their cancer given a new drug known as capivasertib, combined with hormone therapy, and found that they could expect to survive up to twice as…
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Jun 2022
A GP surgery in Reading that provides treatment to around 5,600 patients has been placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission after it was fund to have “significant backlogs of test results and care-related tasks”. The regulator found there was “poor identification of risks to patients” during an inspection at London Street…
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Jun 2022
From this summer, the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford will offer 15 patients treatment at home using apps and wearable technology, as an alternative to a stay in hospital. The virtual ward will be overseen by a consultant who will work with nursing staff, therapists and pharmacists, and the hospital plans to extend…
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