09
Nov 2021
All recipients of the cuff machines will be asked to take a reading up to once a month and submit the results to their GP via telephone or email. Health chiefs hope the monitoring will enable doctors to detect people with high blood pressure who have an increased risk of a potentially fatal heart…
09
Nov 2021
Doctors say women who lose a baby during pregnancy should be offered help and support after having one miscarriage instead of the three currently needed to trigger NHS support. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) have asked for the NHS to overhaul its rules so that any woman who suffers a miscarriage…
09
Nov 2021
A major study has found that cervical cancer has been virtually eradicated in young women due to the HPV vaccine’s ‘remarkable’ success. Cases of the disease have fallen by 87 per cent as a result of the NHS vaccine programme, and among women who are now in their twenties, cases have now dropped from…
09
Nov 2021
Leeds residents are being urged to think twice before turning up at the city’s accident and emergency departments, as doctors say they are coming under increasing pressure. According to NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), “record numbers” of patients are arriving at St James’s Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary, saying that the hospitals are…
02
Nov 2021
MPs have been warned by top doctors that cancer care will inevitably be sacrificed again this winter if Covid cases spiral and survival rates could stall over the next decade due to the impact of coronavirus on the NHS. Thousands of cancer patients had crucial treatment cancelled or postponed during the pandemic as staff…
02
Nov 2021
Health bosses have said patients are being put at “catastrophic risk” of harm due to delays in ambulance handovers. West Midlands Ambulance Service has raised its risk rating for such delays to its highest level for the first time in its history. The risk rating shows the trust believes patient harm is “almost certain”…
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