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Published 4 days ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic Health experts have taken steps to tackle Covid outbreaks at two hospitals in the Borders. The Hay Lodge site in Peebles and Ward 9 at the Borders General near Melrose have been shut to admissions. NHS Borders said that all but essential visiting had also been suspended at both sites. It said the situation was being kept under regular review and the restrictions would be eased as soon as it was safe to do so. Essential visiting includes seeing a person receiving end-of-life care or to support someone with a mental health issue. Earlier this week, the health board was forced to drop its plans for its first in-person meeting in more than two years due to rising Covid case numbers in the region. I Related Internet Links Patients & visitors … [Read more...] about Covid outbreaks halt Borders hospital admissions

During the pandemic in 2020-21, the number of people making repeat trips fell to 1.4 million (Image: Getty) Sign up for our news briefing, including a daily special Russia-Ukraine edition SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info As the NHS marks its 74th birthday today, it emerged the rate of “unplanned reattendances” has risen steadily in the past decade and passed 10 per cent last year. It comes despite a drop in overall numbers during Covid. One cause, experts say, is record pressure on England’s A&E units and long waits to be seen. Related articles F1 news LIVE: Lewis Hamilton takes action as British GP under threat Woman spends day in police cells over bin bags she put out 8 years a Dr Adrian Boyle, vice-president … [Read more...] about One in ten trips to A&E is repeated in a week, figures show

There can be no more vivid example of how dilapidated and dysfunctional the National Health Service is becoming than the news that postmen are to be deployed as makeshift care workers. Royal Mail Health, the branch of the postal service set up to deliver prescription medicine to homes during lockdown , is proposing that its letter carriers act as 'community look-outs'. As well as bringing the post, they will look in on elderly and vulnerable customers, like roaming health visitors and social workers. Is this what social care in the UK has become? It's disgraceful that we should even think of demoting community health to this level, making it a by-product of the postal service. The very idea reveals how badly care services have collapsed. If we have to rely on untrained postal workers to look after our frail and elderly, we have allowed the system to deteriorate to the point where it is no longer fit for purpose. Every hospital doctor knows, of course, that posties … [Read more...] about DR MAX PEMBERTON: Patients need to see GPs, not their postmen

Published 26 June 2018 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing As the National Health Service turns 70, BBC Scotland highlights some of the key milestones in its history - from prescription charges and keyhole surgery to pioneering scans and the smoking ban. 1913 : The Highlands and Islands Medical Service is set up with a Treasury grant of £42,000. It was designed to address a shortfall in healthcare for remote communities. The service is considered a forerunner of the UK-wide NHS in that it was a state-funded and centrally-controlled. 1930 : Scotland's first blood transfusion service is established. The inaugural panel of donors was brought together by Edinburgh dentist Jack Copland. 1933 : Fisherman John McDermid becomes Scotland's first air ambulance patient. He was in urgent need of an abdominal operation but too ill for the sea and road journey. Mr McDermid arrived … [Read more...] about The NHS at 70: Prescriptions, scans and the smoking ban

Published 4 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A man was stabbed though the heart in his flat as he prepared to watch the Euro 2021 final on TV, a murder trial has heard. Kyle Walley, 19, died on his kitchen floor in Rhosymedre, Wrexham. Video was filmed just before the fatal attack and posted on social media platform Snapchat, the jury at Mold Crown Court was told. Mark Harley Jones, also 19, of Chester Road, Wrexham, has admitted killing Mr Walley but denies murder. Mr Walley had expected to watch the football final between England and Italy on 11 July 2021 with the man he considered to be his friend, Mr Jones, the trial was told. Mr Jones arrived at Mr Walley's flat at around lunchtime, but by 16:47 BST, before the game had even started, Mr Walley was dead after being stabbed by the defendant. The jury was shown videos from Mr Jones' Snapchat … [Read more...] about Kyle Walley death: Fatal stabbing posted on Snapchat

The coroner whose findings have implicated Chris Kahui in his sons' deaths is calling for mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse to prevent further tragedies. The move would help overcome "ethical and legal dilemmas" faced by frontline staff by replacing health professionals' "discretionary power" with a statutory duty to speak up, Garry Evans says. Making public his 77-page findings today into the twins' deaths in 2006, he says additional law changes should be considered to make health and education authorities legally responsible for child protection, as they are overseas. He also recommends that child protection teams be introduced at all district health boards to identify at-risk children and intervene. "The populist thought that health professionals should be required to prevent risks posed by patients or report crimes is fraught with risk," his decision says. "It is little wonder that providers err on the side of caution unless required to disclose by … [Read more...] about Coroner calls for compulsory abuse reporting

A fake cleaning invoice was presented to the Tenancy Tribunal by a Wellington landlord after a self-harm attempt by a tenant at his boarding house, the Crown has told a judge. Wellington District Court judge Andrew Becroft​ on Monday began hearing a trial against two men charged with giving false evidence at the tribunal and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Both men have had their names suppressed until the end of the trial. Crown lawyer Andrew Britton​ said a young man had been at a Wellington boarding house in 2015 when he had tried to harm himself. READ MORE: 'I might counter-invoice them': Quinovic under fire for 'unfair' paperwork charges When family resisted an illegal eviction, their water supply was cut The mouldy misery of Wellington’s rental market After he was taken to the hospital two other tenants cleaned up the hallway and the next day the man’s mother cleaned the room. They ended up before the Tenancy Tribunal and the landlord … [Read more...] about Fake cleaning invoice provided to tribunal by landlord, Crown says

Not again. Not after all the vaccines, all the precautions, all the privations. Not after all the models that turned out to be so absurdly alarmist. Our freedoms are elemental. They are what make us who we are as a nation. We can’t surrender them on the off-chance that some putative ill might materialise. The original lockdown was justified on grounds that it was the only way to prevent a meltdown in our healthcare system. In the event, our Nightingale hospitals stood empty, and real-world data (as opposed to modelling) showed that the peak in new infections had passed before the restrictions were imposed. The second lockdown had a sounder rationale. It was supposed to buy time while the vaccination programme was rolled out. Since, by definition, lockdowns push infections into the future, rather than prevent them altogether, this at least made sense. But we have more than done our bit. We are among the most inoculated people on earth, with some of us now on our fourth jabs. … [Read more...] about We know that lockdown is a social and economic disaster. Please, Boris – don’t do it again

By Andrew Picken & Christina Ong Published 10 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Sue Stenton was told by her GP that it would be at least two-and-a-half years to have hip surgery on the NHS so she decided to use her savings to get the operation done privately. Sue said that, for two years before her hip operation in December, "the pain impacted on every aspect of everyday life". The 61-year-old, from Burntisland in Fife, said she struggled to move more than 10 steps and could hardly walk around the house. "I decided I could not carry on like it for years," she said. "Being in constant pain was depressing and not being able to exercise made the weight pile on, which also affected my mental wellbeing." After approaching a private company, Sue was advised to have a hip replacement in two months due to how severe the arthritis was in her right hip, … [Read more...] about I gave up waiting for my NHS op and went private