National Institute for Health and Care Excellence21d
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For the first time, NICE has recommended an innovative new treatment to help stop babies, children and young people who are undergoing cancer treatment from losing their hearing. We’ve issued final ...
Nuffield Trust21d
Patients’ overall experience of NHS and social care services
Several national patient surveys ask service users to rate their overall experience on a scale of 10 (very good) to 0 (very poor). It is useful to compare these responses to understand how experience ...
Nuffield Trust21d
Safety culture in the NHS
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy aims to monitor and support the development of a strong patient safety culture in the NHS to continuously improve the safety of care. Caregivers are accountable for ...
Fox News22d
Half a million patients' personal info stolen in massive health care data breach
This means the clinic keeps a very elaborate record of its patients’ health, and now all that is in the hands of hackers, along with copious amounts of personal information. The full list of ...
ITV22d
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says Martha’s Rule is helping to 'build a safer NHS'
The first two months of the initiative saw 14 people transferred to intensive care units after patients, their family or NHS staff called for a second opinion. Other patients have also been moved ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore22d
Some Singapore doctors see more patients with shingles over past 2 years
For instance, Dr Kelvin Goh, medical lead at United Primary Care Network, observed that during the pandemic, many patients who contracted COVID-19 went on to develop shingles. Similarly ...
Daily Express22d
Hundreds of calls over NHS patient safety concerns under Martha's Rule
Concerns about hospital care have sparked more than 500 calls requesting a rapid review under Martha’s Rule in just two months. The NHS scheme was introduced earlier this year in memory of 13 ...
Daily Mail22d
Senior NHS doctor who shared 'scaremongering' Covid vaccine conspiracy theories and told people not to take them is struck off and branded a risk to patients
A senior NHS doctor who raised concerns about the safety ... that Armstrong was 'highly likely in future to act so as to put patients at unwarranted risk of harm'.
The Press and Journal23d
NHS Grampian cancer waits worst in Scotland with only half of patients treated on time
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verywellhealth23d
Should You Get the Shingles Vaccine?
However, most patients pay less than $50 out of pocket for the shingles vaccine. Around 90% of patients with private insurance plans pay less than $5 for each dose of Shingrix. Due to a stronger ...
GitHub23d
Esri Leaflet
Leaflet plugins for working with a handful of the most popular ArcGIS Service types. This includes Esri basemaps and feature services, as well as tiled map, dynamic map and image services. This ...