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Nov 2021
A new survey suggests ambulances are having to queue outside the majority of emergency departments before they are able to unload patients. Under current NHS guidance, ambulance handovers should be completed within 15 minutes. However, around two-thirds of A&E departments surveyed by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine indicated they were struggling to meet…
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Nov 2021
A Shropshire ambulance service boss has said the county “ran out” of vehicles because all vehicles were queuing outside hospitals. Mark Docherty, nursing and clinical commissioning director of West Midlands Ambulance Service, said other areas had to provide cover for the county during the shortage, adding that the issue had led to a delay…
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Nov 2021
In an open letter, the NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group said it was a “misperception” that GPs are seeing fewer patients and asked patients to understand the pressures GPs are currently facing. The letter added that like many places, Sheffield is suffering an “unprecedented demand” on the NHS. The CCG and GP surgeries…
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Nov 2021
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is facing a review following reports that 19 babies were stillborn and 46 suffered brain damage in the ten years between 2010 and 2020. Sue Saddingham, chairman of the health scrutiny committee of the county council, said she had put the request personally to Health Secretary Sajid Javid, saying that…
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Nov 2021
The Mid and South Essex Hospital Trust says its three hospitals in Southend, Broomfield and Basildon “face challenges” with a shortage of both consultants and midwives. A report published by the trust said midwives “continue to resign”, due to work-life balances. The report to the trust board said that of the 33 newly…
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Nov 2021
An increase in the number of deaths of newborn babies in Scotland is to be investigated, after it emerged that at least 21 babies under four weeks of age died in September, a rate of 4.9 per 1,000 births – the average mortality rate among newborns is just above two per 1,000 births. Public…
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