Health
'No beds, not enough doctors': UK healthcare crisis laid bare
Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died from pneumonia after being sent home, despite a doctor describing his tonsillitis as the worst he had ever seen.
Jan 18, 2023
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News tagged with ambulance
Health
Ambulance workers walk out in strike-hit UK
Striking ambulance workers in England and Wales manned picket lines on Wednesday, escalating a pay dispute between the government and a host of public-sector staff.
Dec 20, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Evaluation finds extension of distress intervention during pandemic was a success in Scotland
A mental health program that supports people in distress was successfully extended during the pandemic, according to a new evaluation led by the University of Stirling.
Sep 21, 2022
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Health
UK hospitals face a £2 million per month extra spend this winter due to fuel price surge
Hospital trusts are facing "eye watering" rises in their energy bills this coming winter and have warned that some patient care will have to be reduced to cope, according to an exclusive investigation published online today ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Medical economics
The ambulance chased one patient into collections
In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn't have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Medications
'Green Whistle' pain relief inhaler given green light in ambulance study of pregnancy emergencies
Research into the "green whistle" pain relief inhaler has found no obvious harm for pregnant women or their newborn babies in a study looking at ambulance cases over 17 years.
Jul 29, 2022
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Cardiology
Accessible defibrillators in schools could treat two thirds of out of hospital cardiac arrests
A study from the University of Warwick has found that school-based defibrillators (AEDs) that are accessible outside of school hours could be effective in treating over two thirds of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCAs) ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Medical research
Women with stroke disadvantaged in critical treatment time window
Despite women with stroke being more likely than men to arrive at the hospital by ambulance, their care is less likely to follow a smooth pathway of care along the way, according to new research published in the Medical Journal ...
Jul 14, 2022
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Addiction
No time to waste on tackling fentanyl in New Zealand
Fentanyl has been circulating the international illicit drug market since about 2013 and is responsible for approximately half of all overdose deaths in the U.S. So it was perhaps inevitable it would eventually cause problems ...
Jul 7, 2022
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Health
Health system must collaborate to fix systemic causes of ambulance ramping
A study published in the Medical Journal of Australia, which assessed whether ambulance offload time influences the outcomes for patients experiencing cardiac issues, provides further evidence that access block is causing ...
Jun 30, 2022
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