Peter Crowe Taylor Crowe, 19, was born with conditions including severe brain damage, quadriplegia, cerebral palsy and epilepsy The family of a young woman living with severe disabilities say she is still relying on a specialised bed made for her when she was eight years old. Taylor Crowe, 19, was born with conditions including severe … Read more
Rachel/BBC Rachel said she was lucky to have a loving family who wanted to visit when she was at a distant hospital, but she would go months without seeing them More people with mental health struggles are being sent far from home for in-patient treatment, despite ministers previously pledging to abolish the practice by 2021. … Read more
“I’m just at the point of where I need to be out of here,” she added. ” It’s just getting too serious for me, my daughter and my unborn child.” Michael Jones, head of housing and delivery asset management at City of York Council, said mould was a common issue in many homes. “We’ve worked … Read more
Many young Ugandan patients stop free treatment as their families cannot afford other hidden costs. Source link
A man says his father-in-law, 85, was left on a trolley after being admitted with stomach pain. Source link
Charlotte Henshaw reveals her struggles with diagnosing endometriosis An athlete’s life is very structured: a series of careful plans, built around training, nutrition and recovery with a set goal in mind. And then, out of the blue, comes something that can throw it all into disarray. Para-canoeist Charlotte Henshaw, interested in untapping extra help in … Read more
Kolkata: Learning from the COVID and the current ARI surge, where patients had complaints of having had to hop from one hospital to another for a bed, the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) has decided to develop a portal that will provide real-time bed vacancy data at private hospitals. This will be applicable … Read more
Emails from senior mental health trust staff say CCTV footage shows “shocking” mistreatment. Source link
In a statement, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, said: “Like hospitals across the country, our emergency departments are under severe strain and in the last couple of days we have experienced the worst pressures on emergency services in our history. Source link
A senior hospital manager says it is difficult to secure community care for vulnerable discharged patients. Source link