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How the healthcare system failed survivors in the aftermath of the Grenfell fire
Survivors of the Grenfell fire were failed by health and care services who did not listen to their needs, according to a new report by The Kings Fund.
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‘Catastrophic and dire’ healthcare in Gaza
We spoke to Nebal Farsakh who is a spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society and we began by asking her to paint us a picture of what healthcare is like now in Gaza.
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The struggle for women’s healthcare in the Scottish Highlands
There are inevitable challenges to providing healthcare to the 25,000 or so people living in Caithness in the Scottish Highlands, but imagine having to drive three hours down one of the UK’s most dangerous roads to give birth, or get urgent women’s healthcare.
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Allegations of bullying within maternity programme of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
It was created with the very best of intentions – to help hospitals learn lessons when a baby or mother is harmed or dies.
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Revealed: Concerns about maternity programme of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
It was set up to investigate harms and deaths of babies and mothers during birth – but staff have warned that there are fundamental flaws in the national organisation for patient safety which may end up making outcomes even worse.
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Inside Afghanistan’s healthcare system on the brink of collapse
In Afghanistan, the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse.
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Roe v. Wade: ‘Politicians have to stay out of healthcare decisions’, says civil liberties group
We were joined by Tamya Cox-Toure, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in the state of Oklahoma, which has voted for one of America’s toughest abortion bans.
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‘We have to do better’ – ex-chief executive of Royal College of Nursing on inequalities in UK healthcare
We were joined by Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, who was chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing until last year, and Lord Victor Adebowale, the chair of NHS Confederation.
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Indonesia’s Covid crisis: Record case numbers leave healthcare system near collapse
This report is from Indonesia, which the International Red Cross says is “on the edge of catastrophe” as its health system is inundated by another wave of the disease.
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People aged over 70 and frontline healthcare staff could start getting vaccine booster shots from September
People aged over 70 and frontline healthcare staff could start getting vaccine booster shots from September – under plans to protect them against new Covid variants.
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‘Time was squandered and we didn’t actually make the investments in healthcare and infrastructure’ – Dr Amesh Adalja on Covid surge in US
We were joined from New York by Dr Amesh Adalja – an infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
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Healthcare after coronavirus: Inside St Barts Hospital as NHS prepares for life beyond Covid-19
As the number of Covid patients who are critically ill falls, hospitals face the challenge of bringing patients back in for elective surgeries and other vital treatments, while keeping the virus out.
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Mental healthcare group The Priory fined £300,000 over death of teenager
The mental healthcare group, the Priory, has been fined 300,000 pounds over the death of a teenager in their care. 14-year-old Amy El-Keria died in 2012, after being found in her room at one of the group’s psychiatric hospitals.
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Inquest finds failings by prison and healthcare workers in death of woman left on cell floor for 21 hours
She was a diabetic prisoner who died after being restrained and left on her cell floor for 21 hours. Staff at Peterborough prison thought Annabelle Landsberg was “play acting” when she stayed on the floor in September 2017. Now an inquest jury has found that a series of failings by prison and healthcare staff contributed to her death.
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Healthcare worker arrested over the murder of eight babies
A healthcare worker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester hospital – after a year long police investigation. Cheshire police described the woman’s arrest as a significant step forward – and said all the families involved were being kept fully updated
