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Dec 2021
The Care Quality Commission have placed two care homes in Suffolk in special measures over concerns for the safety of residents. Highfield House Care Home in Halesworth and Priory Paddocks Nursing Home in Darsham have both been rated “inadequate” following recent inspections by the health watchdog. Inspectors at Priory Paddocks found “incidents of…
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Dec 2021
A new cancer treatment currently being trialled in ten places including Northampton Hospital, which removes the need for surgery or traditional radiotherapy “could be a norm for the future” according to a hospital clinician. The Skin Brachytherapy trial works by placing a small plate over the cancer and channelling radiation into a localised area.…
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Dec 2021
A councillor at Cheltenham Borough Council has warned that Gloucestershire’s health and social care services need more facilities, staff and beds, adding that they need additional government support because their hospitals cannot meet capacity. In a joint statement with the NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust revealed that “over the…
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Dec 2021
The public services ombudsman for Wales said the incident was “completely avoidable” and recommend health officials make a redress payment of £10,000. The patient was initially referred to Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales with suspected appendicitis. Following a number of scans and tests, he was wrongly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, and colon surgery was…
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Dec 2021
Analysis has revealed that less than half of GP appointments are being held with a doctor. The figure is even lower in some parts of the country, where less than one in three patients are seeing qualified doctors when they visit the GP. Nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacy assistants are now seeing more patients combined…
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Dec 2021
An intensive care specialist has said she was “extremely concerned” about the levels of demand for critical care beds because of pressures of Covid-19. Professor Charlotte Summers from Cambridge University and who practices in the city, added that the Omicron variant was likely to make the situation worse in terms of treating non-Covid patients.…
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