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Trust apologises after delivery errors leave baby brain damaged
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust has apologised to a family after a baby was left blind in one eye and brain-damaged when hospital medical staff made a catalogue of errors during a routine birth.
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'Legal challenge landslide' if cuts hit women unfairly
A “landslide” of legal claims could be taken against employers who do not assess the effect of public sector job cuts on women workers, a leading trade union has warned.
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CQC lifts condition on mental health trust
A health trust has had one of three conditions previously placed on it by the CQC lifted after it demonstrated that it has improved its system of ensuring patients’ detention papers are properly renewed under the Mental Health Act.
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1,400 NHS posts face axe
As many as 1,400 posts at Manchester's biggest hospital trust could be lost over the next four years because of government cuts.
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MS doctor 'should be struck off' - GMC
A doctor who gave multiple sclerosis patients “pointless” injections of a substance containing stem cells should be struck off, a fitness to practise hearing has been told.
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Restaurants urged to supply calorie count
The government called today for more restaurants to print calorie information on their menus.
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Bariatric surgery on the rise in Scotland
More than a hundred gastric band operations were carried out in Scotland in the last two years, figures have revealed.
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Liverpool Women's appoints director
Liverpool Women’s Foundation Trust has appointed consultant surgeon and oncologist Jonathan Herod as its new medical director.
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Retirement shake-up 'will hit employers'
Business leaders have warned the government that plans to abolish the default retirement age would have a “significant” effect on employers, especially smaller firms.
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Welsh hospitals to allow mobile use
Patients will be allowed to use their mobile phones in designated parts of hospitals in Wales, it has been announced.
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Call to simplify energy-saving scheme
An energy efficiency scheme which targets businesses and large public sector organisations should be redesigned to make it less complex in the future, the committee which advises the government on climate change has urged.
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Call to reform surgical profession
Surgeons belong to a “profession adrift” that is in urgent need of reform, a leading medical journal has claimed.
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177 bodies 'to face bonfire of the quangos'
Government ministers have drawn up a list of 177 taxpayer-funded bodies, including around 30 health organisations, which will be abolished in a “bonfire of the quangos”, it has been reported.
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Hart continues to deny withholding critical study
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has continued to deny withholding critical findings about the NHS.
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BMA warning over access to patients' records
Doctors’ leaders have said tighter controls were needed to limit “inappropriate access” to patients’ electronic records.
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Former BMA chair acted like 'caricature of surgical arrogance'
Surgeon and former British Medical Association chair James Johnson left a surgical clip inside a patient, shouted at junior staff and behaved like a “caricature of surgical arrogance”, a disciplinary hearing has heard.
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Woman wins court bid to have gastric bypass
A mother of three is believed to have become the first person in the country to use a judicial review to force the NHS to give her a gastric bypass so she can lose weight, her solicitor has said.
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Hart denies misleading Assembly over NHS report
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has denied opposition claims she misled the Assembly about the existence of a report into the NHS.