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Patients made 4.7million trips to A&E because they couldn’t get advice or treatment from their GP

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Patients made 4.7million trips to A&E because they couldn’t get advice or treatment from their GP, UK’s health watchdog suggests Up to 4.7 million A&E visits may have been due to people not seeing their GP Almost one in five patients resorted to A&E as they couldn’t get advice Meanwhile, one third also said there … Read more

Regular exposure to ‘microaggressions’ can be WORSE than ‘overt acts of hate’, NHS chiefs told

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Regular exposure to ‘microaggressions’ like being asked ‘where are you from?’ can be WORSE than ‘overt acts of hate’, NHS leaders are told in woke ‘leadership academy’ lecture NHS bosses were told microaggressions can be worse than ‘overt acts of hate’  Microagressions are statements perceived as unintentional discrimination Health chiefs could take the woke lecture … Read more

NHS hospitals have spent £800,000 on building nearly 740 gender-neutral toilets over past four years

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust  Gender neutral toilets: 63 Total cost: £586,080 A spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘The FOI request did not specify a definition for ‘gender neutral toilets’ so Mersey Care took it to mean any toilet not fitted with a urinal so anyone can use them, but not including disabled or patients’ en-suite facilities.  … Read more

Thousands of social care staff quit for better-paid jobs in supermarkets and hospitality

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NHS ‘struggling to discharge patients to care homes’ as thousands of social care staff quit for better-paid jobs in supermarkets and hospitality Doctors urging ministers to ‘give money to social care, not us’ to ease bottleneck Social care to receive £5.4B of Government’s £36B health care reform package Around 410K social care staff quit last … Read more

Chinese-made cameras implicated in spying on Uyghurs and banned in US still being used in Whitehall

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Chinese-made cameras implicated in spying on the country’s Uyghur community and banned by the US are still being used in Whitehall The Department of Health is still using Chinese-made cameras despite NHS ban Last week Sajid Javid ordered staff to stop buying Communist Party-linked tech  Amendment to health bill will stop future NHS purchases from … Read more

NHS nurse says she skips meals so her children can eat

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‘I skip meals so my children can eat’: NHS nurse and mother-of-three who’s left with just £80 a week after bills says she’s ‘at breaking point’ but has to ‘find a way’ for the sake of her family Rebeccah, from Leicester, is a part-time radiology nurse and a mother of three After paying bills, she … Read more

Teenager is awarded £1.1m by hospital after suffering severe upper body injury during birth

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Teenager is awarded £1.1 million in damages by hospital after suffering severe upper body injury during birth when staff failed to explain the risks of a natural birth or offer Caesarean section to his mother The teenage boy cannot be identified for legal reasons, the High Court has ruled He suffered a ‘significant’ injury which … Read more

NHS is denying children help for mental health issues because they are not considered sick enough

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NHS is denying children help for mental health issues because they are not considered sick enough for treatment, GPs say Under 18s with an eating disorder or psychosis are also being refused care by swamped NHS as they are ‘not considered sick enough’ to warrant treatment  Survey of 1,001 GPs across the UK revealed state … Read more