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Following inspections of both James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, South Tee’s Hospitals Trust’s intensive care has been given the worst possible rating of inadequate....
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Recent evidence has found the HPV vaccination to be so successful at preventing cervical cancer that scientists believe one day the cancer may be eradicated. The vaccination has been used...
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A further 300 cases of deaths and serious injuries of babies at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SATH) have been discovered. The cases were found during an ongoing...
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An investigation has begun by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority after it was found that in 2018 there were 3.6 million more patients registered to GPs than there were people...
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The Health Watchdog is conducting an investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl following an MRI scan. Alice Sloman, from Torbay had autism and was given an anaesthetic for...
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The Nuffield Trust think tank for the BBC has found that the number of GPs per 100,000 people has dropped from 65 in 2014 to 60 in 2018. The decrease...
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Tens of thousands of foreign nurses to be recruited by the NHS over the next five years Over the next five years, the NHS plans to recruit tens of thousands...
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Yesterday marked the beginning of a two year inquiry into what has been described as the “the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS”. In the 1970s and...
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The scale of compensation payouts from hospitals in Suffolk and Essex has been revealed – with the amount totalling nearly £70 million in the last three years. The figures, published...
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Analysis by the children’s charity, Unicef, reveals that more than half a million children in the UK alone were not given a crucial measles jab between 2010 and 2017. Globally,...
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The Priory Group, a provider of mental health care facilities in the UK, has been fined £300,000 after 14-year-old Amy El-Keria was found hanged in her room whilst under their...
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A compensation package amounting to around £6.2m has been won by a man that contracted encephalitis at the age of one, leaving him with severe disabilities – including epilepsy, behavioural...
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