A health board has apologised after the latest figures showed just 6% of patients suffering from chronic pain saw a specialist for help within the 18-week waiting time. Liz Moore,
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There is “still work to do to improve safety” for patients with diabetes in hospital, a charity has warned. The comments from Diabetes UK come after an audit examined the
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A care home for older people in West Dumbartonshire must make urgent improvements in the care provided to vulnerable residents, the Care Inspectorate has said. Inspectors have served a formal Improvement
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The winners of the National Autistic Society’s Autism Professionals Awards were announced at a special ceremony in Harrogate last week. The top accolade, the Lifetime Achievement Award, went to philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley
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Today’s healthcare professionals are in the vanguard of the much needed change in how patient care is undertaken and evaluated. Between 1 April 2016 and 31 January 2017, there were
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Foreign nationals have been kept in Britain’s largest immigration removal centre for as long as four years, a watchdog report reveals. Detainees were held in “prison-like” conditions at the facility
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A health board has been slammed for “verging on scandalous” figures showing just 6% of patients suffering from chronic pain saw a specialist for help within the 18-week waiting time.
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The family of a man who died from suspected legionnaires’ disease are considering legal action against the care home in a bid to find out how he contracted the lethal
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An elderly man died while waiting in an accident and emergency unit because of the “dangerous overcrowding of the department”, the trust’s medical director has said. An email leaked from
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A series of failings by a locum surgeon directly contributed to the death of a two-day-old baby who underwent emergency surgery for a stomach defect which could have waited, a
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