People with dementia need better support
It is estimated that 90,000 people in Scotland have some form of dementia just under 8,000 of them in Glasgow alone a figure that is expected to rise dramatically in the coming years.
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Waiting times ‘manipulation putting NHS patients at risk’
Surgeons are being banned from seeing people in Accident and Emergency so one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals can meet waiting time targets, a whistleblower has claimed.
UK falls short of 24,000 nurses due to cuts and immigration rules
Britains healthcare industry is suffering a nursing shortage of 24,000 staff this year, driven by a decline in student places, tougher immigration rules and spending cuts.
Hospital bugs ‘spread by use of wet wipes to clean wards’ according to first study of its kind
Medical wet wipes used to clean hospital wards are helping spread deadly superbugs, the first study of its kind has revealed.
Doctors’ cosmetic surgery guidance urges more honesty
Doctors who carry out cosmetic procedures should give patients time to think before agreeing to go ahead, new guidance says.
Shock as NICE halts work on nurse staffing levels guidance
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has suspended with immediate effect its work to determine safe staffing levels across the NHS, an internal email has revealed.
Data on 700,000 NHS patients ‘available to third parties’: Details being shared despite patients asking for them to be kept secret
Hundreds of thousands of patients are having their medical data shared against their wishes, it was revealed last night.
‘Dementia affects the whole family’: 11-year-old schoolgirl pens heartbreaking letter to Nana diagnosed with Alzheimerse’ to thousands of sufferers
The day my Nana was diagnosed with dementia was the day we ALL got it but shes still amazing!
Regulators to take over NHS services in three English regions
The new success regime will be applied first to three areas of England Essex, North Cumbria and North, East and West Devon where previous efforts have failed to produce improvements.
£1bn further cuts to social care will hit tens of thousands, say experts
More than £1bn will be cut from social care services for older and disabled people in England over the next year, leaving tens of thousands facing reduced help with basic tasks such as washing, dressing and eating, council care bosses have said.