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
Miles is grilled about the controversial “stay local” guidance which came in to replace “stay at home” messaging as infections eased in May 2020. The inquiry hears the Welsh government felt “it was not possible to legislate to define local, as it would mean different things in different parts of Wales”, for example in rural … Read more
Muscular dystrophy patient Elliot, five, makes the journey from Newport to Newcastle twice a month. Source link
Chennai: Using blazingly fast 5G technology, a skilled surgeon will be able to have a robot operate on a patient admitted to a hospital, thousands of miles away, without compromising on precision. The technology is likely to help surgeons perform remote, across-the-globe procedures that are impossible today, said Bangalore-based senior robotic surgeon Dr S P … Read more
Patients are being sent more than 60 miles (100km) away, which can delay their recovery. Source link
Molly Leonard says she often spends months far from her family because Wales has no specialist unit. Source link
By Nikki FoxBBC Look East Health Correspondent image copyrightMaxine Fulcherimage captionPeggy Copeman had to travel 280 miles (450km) as a local mental health bed could not be found She had never left her home county before but a lack of mental health beds meant Peggy Copeman, 81, was taken to a hospital hundreds of miles … Read more
More than 2,000 intensive-care patients were moved between hospitals in search of beds from September to March. Source link
Image copyright Getty Images The government is facing criticism over its “world-beating” coronavirus testing system after people reported struggles to get tests, including being offered slots at testing centres a long way away. Ministers have been defending the scheme, and have claimed that testing capacity is increasing and that the average trip to a test … Read more