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Jan 2022
Pregnant women have been urged to get vaccinated following a new study which found an increased risk of birth-related complications after getting Covid-19. Sir Michael McBride, chief medical officer for Northern Ireland, said Covid in the later stages “can have serious consequences for both mother and baby” and that having Covid-19 during pregnancy “carries…
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Jan 2022
Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham, has said that non-urgent surgery and hospital appointments will restart in the region this week. He said elective activity would restart “with day cases” in the next few days and “progressively increase” after that, although he did say that services in the region remained under “considerable pressure”. Mr Burnham…
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Jan 2022
New figures show that waiting times in Scottish accident and emergency departments were the worst on record in the first week of 2022, and that almost a third of the 21,163 patients going to A&E took more than four hours to be attended to. The figure of 67.4 per cent meeting the four hour…
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Jan 2022
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has been ordered to improve emergency and urgent care. Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found “risks to patients were not always recognised” and rated emergency care as inadequate. The health watchdog made the unannounced inspection in September of last year in response to…
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Jan 2022
Northern Ireland’s health minister Robin Swann has informed staff of an additional in-year pay award for 2021/22, which is further to the 3 per cent which has already been implemented. The 3 per cent award was implemented last November following a recommendation from the NHS pay review body. In a communication to staff,…
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Jan 2022
According to the largest study of the issue to date, over 1.2 million people died worldwide in 2019 from infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics, more than the annual death toll from Aids or malaria. The report says that although poorer countries are worst affected, antimicrobial resistance threatens everyone’s health, and urgent investment…
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