Older hospital patients need more support to get out of their beds and walking, a new study suggests. Even mobile hospital inpatients spend the majority of time in their beds,
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NHS officials have created a one-stop shop so hospitals in England can find companies which can help them get medically fit patients out of hospital beds. NHS Shared Business Services
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Legionella has been found in water supplying parts of a cancer treatment ward at a hospital. The bacteria was found in the water of the radiotherapy unite at the Western
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A watchdog has reprimanded a health board after staff members shared patients’ personal data on WhatsApp hundreds of times. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS
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Labour has criticised the “eye-watering waste” of burning half a billion pieces of unused Covid protective gear in China. The Government said it was holding some 589 million unneeded items
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Social care “traffic control centres” and cash incentives for hospital performance are being announced by the NHS in a bid to drive up care standards. The NHS in England is
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People’s experience of A&E is getting far worse, with long waits to be seen and patients not always getting help, according to a new report. Hospital regulator the Care Quality
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The Government is not trying to kick compensation payments for victims impacted by the infected blood scandal into the “long grass”, the Paymaster General has said. Jeremy Quin (pictured) told
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Hundreds of patients are taking up hospital beds across England every day despite being ready to leave, due to hold-ups in sorting transport, medicines and paperwork, or because they have
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Pressure on staff and a shortage of workers are holding back improvements in NHS mental health services, MPs have warned. There is also growing concern that the Government has not
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