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Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told
Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more
Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told
Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more
Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK’s first drug injection room
Alarms sound as staff deal with medical emergencies in The Thistle’s using space Chris Clements BBC Disclosure The alarm is sounding in the UK’s first drug consumption room. A man in his 30s has overdosed in the “using space” – a room in the Glasgow facility where nurses supervise injections in eight booths. He had … Read more
Lives at risk due to medical scan mistakes, says ombudsman
Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News Getty Images Repeated failures in how CTs, X-rays and other medical scans are being interpreted are leading to avoidable patient deaths and delays in diagnosing cancer, England’s health ombudsman has warned. The most common problems include doctors failing to spot abnormalities, scans being delayed or not carried out, and … Read more
Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives
BBC James Gallagher recording sound levels around Barcelona We are surrounded by an invisible killer. One so common that we barely notice it shortening our lives. It’s causing heart attacks, type 2 diabetes and studies now even link it to dementia. What do you think it could be? The answer is noise – and its … Read more
MPs say woefully inadequate eating-disorder care is costing lives
Anna Collinson and Lorna Acquah BBC News Investigations BBC Olimata felt like “a shell of a human”, when she had anorexia, as a teenager Lives are being lost and families torn apart because of “woefully inadequate care” for people with eating disorders, according to a group of MPs. The “alarming” rise in disorders such as … Read more
Cervical screening knowledge gap ‘costing lives’, says charity
Getty Images Cervical screening tests save thousands of lives each year in the UK, but many women do not take up invitations for screenings A knowledge gap around cervical screenings is currently “costing lives”, a cancer charity says. The Eve Appeal says more women need to know they can ask for adjustments to their cervical … Read more
Birmingham brain op failings made patients’ lives ‘hell’
BBC Wendy Swain said the surgery left her feeling even more disabled Patients who had probes located in the wrong part of their brain due to failings at an NHS trust suffered unnecessarily for years, a damning report has found. The leaked report into deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation … Read more
‘We’re attacked and abused as we try to save lives’
BBC Nutan Patel-West said racist abuse and violent attacks had made her fearful while on duty Violence and abuse against paramedics and emergency call handlers is on the rise, with reported cases up by more than a third since 2019, the BBC has found. Almost 45,000 assaults were recorded by ambulance services across England over … Read more