A portable A&E unit that treats patients in life-threatening situations has saved one NHS trust an estimated £500,000 in one year. Patients can be treated on the spot, avoiding the need to be taken to hospital A&E units already overwhelmed by soaring demand. The car is fitted with advanced medical equipment instant blood tests and … Read more
NHS winter crisis sees 7,000 more patients wait outside busy A&E units than last year as hospitals face ‘the most pressure ever seen’ Almost 100,000 people went to A&E last week – about one every six seconds By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 11:38 GMT, 19 December 2019 | Updated: 11:39 GMT, … Read more
NHS hospital in Derby ‘becomes the UK’s first’ to use disposable hijabs for Muslim doctors in surgery to reduce the risk of infection from headscarves Farah Roslan is training at Royal Derby Hospital and designed the hijab She had been ‘respectfully’ removed from the operating theatre in the past Surgical staff are supposed to wear … Read more
World first cancer treatment being trialed in NHS hospitals could make chemotherapy ‘more effective by using BUBBLES to help kill tumours’ Acoustic cluster therapy involves injecting microbubbles and liquid droplets Ultrasound used to make bubbles grow larger and stretch the tumour’s walls Increases chance of chemo drugs reaching cancer cells and not healthy ones By Connor … Read more
CAUSE CHILDREN TO HAVE A LOW IQ: Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found in May 2019 that children born to mothers who live in polluted areas have an IQ that is up to seven points lower than those living in places with cleaner air. CAUSE CHILDREN TO HAVE POORER MEMORY: Researchers at the … Read more
Blundering NHS doctors are leaving tampons and surgical swabs inside women for up to FIVE DAYS after they give birth, report reveals A report by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) made the warning It found vaginal swabs had been left inside patients 91 times in three years Women are at high risk of infection … Read more
Man who arrived at hospital with a ‘stiff neck’ is branded an ‘attention seeker’ by 24 Hours in A&E viewers – who claim he wasted NHS time ‘just to get on TV’ Simon, 37, arrived at hospital with partner Tom after suffering acute neck pain Viewers branded him ‘attention seeker’ and said he should’ve gone … Read more
Being in hospital over Christmas or New Year isn’t something most of us would welcome. But for NHS doctors and nurses on call over the festive season, going to work is just another day . . . or is it? Here, medics share their yuletide memories, from the hilarious to the profoundly sad. For NHS … Read more
Question: Is it now a general rule that ear syringing is no longer available on the NHS, or is this just my local health authority’s way of ‘spreading the load’? Instructed to go private, I’ve been told the charge is £10 to see if it is needed, deducted from the final bill of £30 if … Read more
The flu season is well under way and the NHS is already starting to buckle under the pressure. Alarming new figures from Public Health England (PHE) show thousands of patients have been to their GP with flu-like symptoms in the past five days, and three times as many people have so far been admitted to … Read more
Boris finally gets a Queen’s speech! Withdrawal Bill back before Christmas and £33billion for the NHS to be top of Her Majesty’s address to parliament Mr Johnson’s majority gives Tories control of the House for first time since 2017 Queen’s Speech on Thursday will set out the agenda for the new Parliament Main items will … Read more
Boris Johnson today vowed to use his thumping 80-seat majority to ‘transform this country’ with the raft of eye-catching policies he pledged during the election campaign. The Prime Minister’s bolstered tally of 365 Conservative MPs will allow him to ram through legislation which would have previously been derailed by opposition lawmakers. Brexit – the cause … Read more
The Tory election earthquake will deliver 109 new MPs to Westminster including a gang of 20-somethings nicknamed ‘Boris’s babies’ who stormed Labour’s traditional fiefdoms in the North and Midlands – and won. This new breed of Conservative is more working class than toff and will leave behind jobs in the NHS, schools and some more exotic … Read more