Ebola nurse tells of fight to live
The Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola has revealed how the illness took her from wondering “what all the fuss was about” to the brink of death. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was
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Funding announced to ease Scots hospital discharge
A further £100 million over three years is to be invested in the NHS to help reduce the numbers of people waiting to be discharged from hospital. This funding will
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Poor diabetes treatment resulting in avoidable deaths
The poor state of diabetes healthcare in England is leading to avoidable deaths, record rates of complications and huge costs to the NHS, according to a Diabetes UK report. There
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Charities urge government over A&E role
Some of Britain’s leading charities will urge the Government to let them make a “radical intervention” at accident and emergency departments in a bid to relieve crippling pressure on doctors
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Major cancer prevention & detection programme launched
Health chiefs today launched a major initiative designed to improve prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. NHS England announced an independent task force which will develop a five-year action plan
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NHS pressures underlined as Macmillan reveal 2.5 million living with cancer
There will be a record high 2.5 million people living with cancer in the UK in 2015, an increase of almost half a million people in the last five years,
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Health Minister concedes NHS not meeting targets
Health Minister Norman Lamb has admitted the NHS “is not meeting” its targets, as new figures today are expected to show that A&E waiting times have fallen to their worst
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Christmas A&E visits warning for elderly
Elderly people are being warned not to store up their health problems for the holidays, for fear they will end up in busy emergency departments with more serious illnesses. A
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Regulator warning over stigmatising learning disabled
Outdated and stigmatising labels are still placed on people with learning disabilities in hospitals in Northern Ireland, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) said. Terms such as learning difficulty,
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NHS criticised for defensive culture over complaints
Patients who suffer poor care “too often” face a defensive culture in the health service when they try to complain, according to a health watchdog. Half of those who did
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