Health & Patient Care
Lack of sleep leads to obesity in children and adolescents
Research finds that children who get less than the recommended amount of sleep for their age are at a higher risk of developing obesity Research keep reading
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WALES: Underinvestment and workforce shortages make it ‘very difficult’ to book a GP appointment
Patient frustration with appointment delays in Wales shows need to tackle underinvestment and workforce shortages in general practice A survey commissioned by the Welsh government keep reading
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Patient data-sharing rules slammed
New report examining the Memorandum of Understanding into data sharing between NHS Digital, the Department of Health and Social Carre and the Home Office has keep reading
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Majority of the public support tax increases to pay for the NHS
Analysis, by The King’s Fund, of the latest data from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey on public attitudes to NHS funding and quality of care, keep reading
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GP deportation prompts call to rethink visa applications, says BMA
BMA calls for Home Office to make visa applications more ‘flexible’ as the government seeks to recruit more doctors from abroad In a letter to the keep reading
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Moving patient treatment forward through Diagnostics North East
A platform bringing together world-leading diagnostic resources and expertise to develop new and innovative technologies to improve patient health and wellbeing has been launched in keep reading
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46% of GPs’ cancer referrals blocked or downgraded, says survey
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the Daily Mail Nearly half of GPs have been blocked from sending patients for urgent cancer scans, a survey has keep reading
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Will government plans to change planning rules damage primary care services?
Last month Prime Minister Theresa May turned her attention back to the UK’s housing market, with a promise to ‘rewrite the rule book in terms keep reading
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‘Bureaucracy getting in the way of common sense’ – says RCGP of GP in training deportation
A GP-in-training with only five months until qualifying is fighting deportation due to a delay in his visa process Dr Luke Ong, originally from Singapore, keep reading
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CQC reveals latest assessment of acute hospitals
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its analysis of the quality and safety of care provided by independent acute hospitals across England Having inspected keep reading