A preliminary report that has been described as “unacceptable” by ministers has revealed that there are too many poor quality investigations into babies who die or are severely brain damaged during labour.
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‘Carers’ In Their 80S Increasing In Numbers In UK
Lack of state support in the UK has made people in their 80s take up the role of ‘carers’, an unpaid care that they provide to their family or friends.
How the NHS is Trying to Innovate Technology on Smaller Scale “Testbeds”
Even by the usual standards of abject government failures in IT projects, the NHS has an especially infamous record of blowing billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to little or no demonstrable…
Charities, doctors slam incentives to GPs for lower patient referrals
An investigation by Pulse Magazine has led to a revelation that some GPs in the UK are being offered thousands of pounds to cut the number of patients being sent to hospital…
Charity voices concern over waiting times for autism diagnosis
The National Autistic Society, UK has called on NHS England and Government to take urgent action to reduce unacceptable waiting times for autism diagnosis stating that waiting times for autism diagnosis is…
Diabetes could bring down the NHS, charity says
More and more Britons are being diagnosed with Diabetes and according to latest analysis by Diabetes UK, there has been a nearly 60 per cent increase in the number of diabetics in…
Cancer patients referred late by GPs likely to be dissatisfied with overall care
Researchers have revealed through an extended analysis of survey data from over 70,000 cancer patients that those who have had to visit their GPs more than three times before they were referred…
Charity voices concern over NHS England’s refusal to fund anti-TNF treatments
The Royal National Institute of Blind People has revealed that patients in England with severe refractory uveitis will now have to go to Scotland or Wales to get appropriate treatment as NHS…
Diabetes-related amputations in England at an all-time high of over 7000 per year
Diabetes UK has revealed through an analysis of data from Public Health England that diabetes-related amputations in England have reached an all-time high of over 7,000 per year with over 135 amputations…
One million older people affected by poor standards of dignity in hospitals
A comprehensive, statistical analysis of inpatient experience data in NHS hospitals in England has brought to the forefront “widespread and systematic” pattern of inadequate care that lacks substantially in standards of dignity…
Dentists call on government to tackle tooth decay menace in children
The Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) at the The Royal College of Surgeons of England has launched an action paper urging the government to roll out a clear public health strategy that…
NHS Okays 17 healthcare innovations; to be rolled out to patients across England
The National Health Services (NHS) UK has announced the names names of successful applicants of a scheme to make evidenced healthcare innovations more widely available to patients under which technologies, processes and…
Over two thirds GPs believe dementia patients are let down by health services
Dementia patients in the UK are being let down by lack of support from National Health Services (NHS) and social care in the UK, a new poll of over 1,000 family doctors…
UK lags behind other countries on survival rates for common cancers
A comparative study of quality of care in the UK health system with that of similar countries over time has revealed that despite recent improvements, UK lags behind other countries in several…
NELA report highlights high death rates for emergency bowel surgery
More patients die from emergency laparotomy (bowel surgery) than any other type of high-risk planned surgery, the First Patient Audit Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit has found and the primary…