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Trust accepts responsibility for death of teenager awarding family £80,000

By The Press Association9th June 2016News England

The family of an 18-year-old man who drowned following an epileptic seizure while under the care of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £80,000 compensation. The NHS Trust

NHS staffing in Scotland hits record high but agency use increases substantially

By The Press Association8th June 2016News Scotland

The number of staff working in the NHS has reached a record high, although the use of agency nurses and midwives has increased substantially for the third year running, according

Bed-blocking up by third in recent years costing NHS £800m annually, says GMB

By The Press Association8th June 2016News England

The number of days patients remain in hospital because of bed blocking has risen by a third in recent years, highlighting the scale of the crisis, a report has revealed.

Culture of ‘learned helplessness’ as hospital condemned for unacceptable patient risk

By The Press Association8th June 2016News England

A hospital has been condemned by health inspectors for putting patients at “unacceptable risk” in its overcrowded A&E department. Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth was so busy that 16 ambulances

National Aids Trust in call over NHS funding for preventive HIV treatment

By The Press Association7th June 2016News England

A preventive HIV treatment is taking too long to be made available on the NHS, according to campaigners who are taking the matter to judicial review. National Aids Trust chief

‘Game changer’ bowel cancer home-testing kit to be rolled out across England

By The Press Association7th June 2016News England

Hundreds of thousands more people will test themselves for bowel cancer thanks to a new and simpler home-testing kit, health officials have said. The new bowel cancer assessment is to

More needs to be done to address UK’s ‘shocking’ rate of premature death

By The Press Association7th June 2016News England

A quarter of a million people across the UK could die needlessly over the coming nine years from preventable conditions, a new report suggests. More must be done to address

Nearly one in four cancer patients visit GP three times before hospital referral

By The Press Association7th June 2016News England

Almost one in four cancer patients need to see their GP at least three times before getting referred to hospital, a new survey suggests. This means thousands of cancer sufferers

Only five Scots health boards meet psychological therapies treatment-time target

By The Press Association7th June 2016News Scotland

The majority of health boards have failed to meet the treatment-time target for psychological therapies, official figures show. Just five of Scotland’s 14 boards met the requirement to see at

Jeremy Hunt ‘should give NHS England power to commission HIV treatment’

By The Press Association7th June 2016News England

Jeremy Hunt has been urged to give NHS England the power to commission an HIV prevention treatment which could be a “game changer” in stopping the spread of the infection.

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Trust accepts responsibility for death of teenager awarding family £80,000

NHS staffing in Scotland hits record high but agency use increases substantially

Culture of ‘learned helplessness’ as hospital condemned for unacceptable patient risk

National Aids Trust in call over NHS funding for preventive HIV treatment

‘Game changer’ bowel cancer home-testing kit to be rolled out across England

More needs to be done to address UK’s ‘shocking’ rate of premature death

Nearly one in four cancer patients visit GP three times before hospital referral

Only five Scots health boards meet psychological therapies treatment-time target

Jeremy Hunt ‘should give NHS England power to commission HIV treatment’

Mother’s anger after coroner finds Army failures contributed to Jaysley’s death

Thirty councils in severe financial distress granted support to protect services

More than half of councils face insolvency over special needs spending – survey

Man with Down’s syndrome died after care worker ‘landed on him’ in swimming pool

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Trust accepts responsibility for death of teenager awarding family £80,000

NHS staffing in Scotland hits record high but agency use increases substantially

Bed-blocking up by third in recent years costing NHS £800m annually, says GMB

Culture of ‘learned helplessness’ as hospital condemned for unacceptable patient risk

National Aids Trust in call over NHS funding for preventive HIV treatment

‘Game changer’ bowel cancer home-testing kit to be rolled out across England

More needs to be done to address UK’s ‘shocking’ rate of premature death

Nearly one in four cancer patients visit GP three times before hospital referral

Only five Scots health boards meet psychological therapies treatment-time target

Jeremy Hunt ‘should give NHS England power to commission HIV treatment’