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Jun 2024
Latest figures from the NHS show that the hospital backlog in England has risen slightly over the past month, hitting 7.57 million at the end of April, up from 7.54 million the previous month. In other areas, waiting time targets for Accident & Emergency and ambulance response times also continue to be missed. …
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Jun 2024
A report from the union says that caring for patients in hospital corridors has become “normal”, despite being unsafe and unacceptable for patients. In the report, the nursing union is calling for corridor care to be reported whenever it happens so that the problem can be eradicated everywhere in the UK. Its annual…
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Jun 2024
A director of a new “revolutionary” research centre has said that it could lead to some cancer patients avoiding “unnecessary or painful” treatments. Cancer Research UK’s National Biomarker Centre, which officially opens next week, has been established to test how genes, proteins and molecules can give insights into a person’s cancer so clinicians can…
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Jun 2024
UK scientists have found a weak spot in our DNA that is present in 95 per cent of people with the condition, making it much easier for some immune cells to go haywire and drive excessive inflammation in the bowels. The team have found drugs that already exist appear to reverse the disease in…
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Jun 2024
The families of nine babies who died at hospitals run by the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust over a three-year period have called for a public inquiry into the standard of its maternity care. Of the nine bereaved mothers, four said they too almost died as a result of “poor standards of care”…
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May 2024
Scientists say they have made a potentially “game-changing” breakthrough in breast cancer research following a discovery in how to preserve breast tissue outside the body for at least one week. The study, funded by the Prevent Breast Cancer charity, found that tissue could be preserved in a gel solution, which will help scientists identify…
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