Nov 5, 2020
Although the central forecasts remain unchanged, forecasting 750 deaths a day and 4,290 hospital admissions by December 8, the upper end of the range has been revised down. Instead of 1,500 deaths, it suggests an upper figure of 1,010, while the top range for daily hospital admissions falls from around 9,000 to 6,190. The changes […]
Nov 1, 2020
I was 26 years old, standing in my mother’s small kitchen in Bristol, when she told me and my brother, Keir, that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was 54 and absolutely not ready to die. ‘You’re not to worry,’ she told us. ‘I’m going to beat this.’ Back...
Oct 20, 2020
The death of an autistic teenager who was prescribed medication against his and his parents’ wishes was “potentially avoidable”, a report has found. Oliver McGowan, 18, died at Southmead Hospital in Bristol in November 2016 after being given the...
Oct 6, 2020
But experts said one explanation could be that more people in coastal locations are shielding, meaning they are better protected, adding that the figures showed seaside towns had little to fear from the recent influx of visitors. Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor...
Sep 28, 2020
Ms Campbell detailed her daughter’s medical care from when she was first admitted to the eating disorder unit at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, in September 2011, three years after she was diagnosed with anorexia, to her death in December 2012. She said the...
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