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Gynaecology waiting lists in UK double, leaving women in pain
BBC Anna Cooper has had 17 operations and is in constant pain Waiting lists for gynaecology appointments across the UK have more than doubled since February 2020, BBC research reveals. Records show around three-quarters of a million (755,046) women’s health appointments are waiting to happen – up from 360,400 just before the pandemic. This would … Read more
More NHS hospitals leaving patients in corridors to free up ambulances
Since 2022, hospitals like NNUH have increasingly adopted a new way of working called the Continuous Flow Model, in which patients are sent from A&E to wards and other areas even if they are full. They have done this to address soaring ambulance waits outside A&E as paramedics try to offload patients. In the UK, … Read more
Write off student loans to stop NHS staff leaving in England, experts say
Think tank wants financial incentive to keep NHS nurses, midwives and physios in England for 10 years. Source link
Strikes by NHS doctors leaving ‘patients in limbo’
Patients affected by walk-outs by NHS staff say they are frustrated and anxious. Source link
Johnson questioned on his Covid care nurse leaving NHS
Labour’s Andy Slaughter has called on the prime minister to give NHS nurses “more than an insulting 1% pay rise”. He raised the case of Jenny McGee, a nurse who treated the PM for Covid, who is leaving the NHS and has criticised the handling of the pandemic. Boris Johnson spoke of his “own huge … Read more