Prosecutors are now investigating the deaths of two patients at Scotland’s flagship hospital who contracted an infection connected to pigeon droppings. The Crown Office confirmed it is looking into the
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The NHS and Government complaints watchdog is calling for new powers to allow it to investigate issues such as elderly and mental health care. Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)
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The Department of Health has stepped in to overrule plans to halt blood donation in Channel ports for eight weeks around the scheduled date of Brexit. NHS Blood and Transport
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The cost of completing a new hospital – where work was halted after the collapse of engineering giant Carillion – is higher than previously anticipated, it has been revealed. The
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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has made an “absolute commitment” that the children’s ward at St John’s Hospital in Livingston will fully reopen round the clock in October this year. Ms
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Medicine “will be prioritised” over food if a no-deal Brexit disrupts supply chains, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock said “very significant” planning is under way to curb the
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One thousand people are to be recruited by the NHS to help GPs deal with some of the “scourges of modern life” from loneliness to mental health issues. They will
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Patients are missing out on safe and compassionate care due to a shortage of NHS staff, according to a new poll. Almost half (45%) of more than 15,000 frontline NHS
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Health experts have warned Scottish hospitals are at risk of an outbreak of a new potentially deadly superbug unless attitudes towards screening change. Rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae
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The deaths of up to 250 patients who died following heart surgery at an NHS hospital are to be reviewed. All the patients underwent surgery at St George’s Hospital in
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