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Government plans to cut NHS waiting list ‘difficult to achieve’ – health leaders

NHS managers are worried about the quality of patient care and many believe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s commitment to cut waiting lists will be difficult to achieve, according to a new report. A poll of NHS trust managers and chief executives found ...

14 Nov 2023 at 00:01

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Family fun day at Leitrim’s St Patrick’s Hospital to support patient care

The highly regarded St Patrick’s Community Hospital in Carrick-on-Shannon will be holding a family fun day on Sunday, September 15. Funds raised from the event will go towards the Patient Comfort Fund. The Patient Comfort Fund supplies equipment ...

10 Sept 2024 at 08:33

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Northern Trust's new toolkit aims to enhance wellbeing of advanced cancer patients

A new online toolkit for people with advanced cancer has been developed by the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. Inspired by patient feedback, and designed alongside local service users, its focus is on living well and supporting the best ...

03 Jul 2024 at 18:33

Remove barriers on NHS data access to save patient lives – review

Barriers on NHS data access should be removed so it can be used to improve patient care and allow crucial research into diseases like dementia, cancer and heart disease, a review has urged. Patients and their families are being let down ...

08 Nov 2024 at 00:01

Minister criticises ‘failures’ in care of boy who died week after hospital visit

There are no excuses for the “series of failures” in the care of a five-year-old boy who died a week after he was sent home from hospital, the Health Secretary has said. Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23 2022, eight days after he ...

02 Dec 2024 at 17:11

NHS patients ‘dying in corridors and going undiscovered for hours’, report says

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours while sick people are being left to soil themselves, according to a damning report into the state of the NHS. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) published new ...

16 Jan 2025 at 09:00

Doctors’ leaders: There must be a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to NHS corridor care

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called for a “zero tolerance” approach to NHS corridor care, and accused health service leaders of not going far enough. The college said there was a need to eliminate the practice, which ...

22 Jan 2025 at 00:01

Too many people with eating disorders are being failed, say group of MPs

People with eating disorders are being failed, a group of MPs said as they warned of “widespread neglect” within struggling services. MPs said there has been an alarming rise in eating disorders in the past decade and the ...

22 Jan 2025 at 00:01

Senior doctor tells of ‘betrayal’ over son’s death at hospital where she worked

A senior doctor has told of her “feelings of betrayal” over her son’s death at the hospital where she worked, an inquest heard. William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton University Hospital in January 2023 within 24 hours ...

14 Feb 2025 at 16:55

Medical staff failed to swiftly give antibiotics to doctor’s son, inquest told

Medical staff failed to swiftly administer antibiotics to the son of one of the hospital’s senior doctors, who was showing signs of sepsis, before he died, an inquest has heard. William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton ...

13 Feb 2025 at 17:08

GP action has been like ‘holding up a mirror’, according to top doctor

Collective action by GPs in England has been like “holding up a mirror” to primary care, with hopes that the health service will learn from the changes it has triggered, according to one of England’s top medics. The ...

13 Feb 2025 at 00:01

Patients ‘told to soil themselves’ in busy A&E – report

Bed-bound patients were told to “soil themselves” in a busy A&E department because there were not enough staff to take them to the toilet, according to a new report. One desperate patient urinated in a bottle ...

05 Mar 2025 at 10:26

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