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Apr 2022
The Care Quality Commission health watchdog has reported that two in five maternity wards are potentially unsafe, having found that 80 of 193 NHS maternity wards were inadequate or requiring improving in their most recent inspection. A failure to learn from mistakes was one of the key issues highlighted, as well as short staffing…
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Apr 2022
Hospitals are under huge strain, with increasing numbers so busy they are having to divert ambulances to other sites because they are unable to cope. Over the past seven days, 20 NHS accident and emergency departments in England issued diverts, with patients taken to other hospitals. A&E departments still taking new patients have…
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Apr 2022
A study suggests that a ‘game-changing’ antibiotic could save millions of lives lost to superbugs worldwide each year. In a breakthrough British scientists have developed synthetic versions of the compound teixobactin, the first new antibiotic to be discovered in decades. In research led by the University of Liverpool, the man-made drugs were able to…
05
Apr 2022
A new glaucoma treatment is being introduced in the UK, which promises to control the debilitating eye condition for years without the need for surgery. There are currently around 700,000 people in the UK who have glaucoma, which is caused when the optic nerve is damaged by pressure built up by trapped fluid. It…
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Apr 2022
A report by a group of MPs earlier this week concluded that the UK is making ‘inadequate’ progress towards its fight to improve cancer services. Experts advising the Health and Social Care Committee examined promises that the government had made to improve cancer outcomes for patients and ruled that they were failing to meet…
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Apr 2022
A major report says we have the technology to begin a new era in medicine by precisely matching drugs to DNA. Some drugs are ineffective or become deadly due to subtle differences in the way our bodies function. The Royal College of Physicians and the British Pharmacological Society say a genetic test, which…
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