3 hours ago Kelly Morgan,BBC News, Wiltshire The sisters tell BBC Radio Wiltshire they want the therapy made more widely available Two sisters are hoping more funding will be made available so all deaf children can access Auditory Verbal Therapy. Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers … Read more
Two main groups of people were caught up in the scandal. One was people with haemophilia, and those with similar disorders, who have a rare genetic condition which means their blood does not clot properly. In the 1970s, a new treatment was developed to replace the missing clotting agents, made from donated human blood plasma. … Read more
The Tainted Blood campaign group chairman, Andy Evans, who was infected with HIV and hepatitis C as a child through his haemophilia treatment, said publication of the report would be a “defining” moment after decades of campaigning. “This is where we pin our hopes, really – we don’t have anywhere else to go after this,” … Read more
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
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People eligible for the free vaccine in England, including everyone aged over 74, can book from Monday. Source link