Nov 11, 2020
The number of people referred to hospital this year has fallen by one third, with almost five million fewer people referred for cataract, hip and knee operations and other types of surgery. Experts warned of a “rising tide of unmet need” with millions of people left in pain, or with worsening eyesight, because they had […]
Nov 8, 2020
Lower levels of movement, and consequently social mixing, may help explain why hospitals in the capital have so far escaped a major surge of cases in the second wave. Hospitalisations in London are at less than 150 per 100,000 people, compared to around 400 per...
Nov 3, 2020
Critcon levels 3 and 4 are enacted during a ‘full stretch’ and ‘emergency’, when other wards need to be used for critical care. But 146 units out of 222 (65 per cent) are still at ‘Critcon 0’, which is defined as ‘business as usual’ by the NHS. Just 29 units (13 per...
Oct 29, 2020
The team at Glasgow University examined data from 158,445 healthcare workers in Scotland aged between 18 and 65 and 229,905 of their household members, and compared it to members of the general population. Compared with other adults of working age, healthcare workers...
Oct 24, 2020
Nurses and dietitians should help draw up menus in their hospitals, an official review will recommend, in a bid to eradicate “inedible” food in the health service. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Prue Leith, the television chef tasked by Boris Johnson...
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