Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for December 2022, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “December’s performance figures are truly shocking, more than 50% of all patients facing waits over four-hours and nearly 55,000 patients facing 12-hour waits from the decision to admit. […]
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12 hour wait times for 30k : ‘We are seeing the sharp demise of the health service’, RCEM says as 30,000 patients wait more than 12-hours in A&Es in England in July. Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for July 2022, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency […]
Kindness is the best medicine when someone is grieving”, Ken Sazuze says one year after the launch of HWF’s Families Programme: It’s been one year since the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers, launched their Families Programme to support the families of healthcare workers who sadly lost their lives fighting […]
WHO calls for better hand hygiene and other infection control practices Urgent need to reduce inequalities between high- and lower-income countries. The World Health Organization’s latest global survey on implementation of national infection prevention and control programmes highlights the urgent need to reduce inequalities in the availability of good hand hygiene and other infection prevention and control […]
A large proportion of UK healthcare workers may already have been infected with Covid-19, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia in collaboration with University College London. In May, Public Health England added a new loss of taste or smell (anosmia) to the list of symptoms for Covid-19. Research published today […]
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