Wales 20 November 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with WhatsApp Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46267143 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel A 92-year-old man died after a health board failed to give appropriate wound treatment in a "heartbreaking injustice", a watchdog has … [Read more...] about Man’s hospital death an ‘injustice’
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Breastfeeding my baby Rhys helped me to cope as he clung to life
Breastfeeding my baby Rhys helped me to cope as he clung to life BelfastTelegraph.co.uk A grieving mother has described the power of breastfeeding as the experience that helped her cope as her baby son clung to life. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/breastfeeding-my-baby-rhys-helped-me-to-cope-as-he-clung-to-life-37186817.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article37186815.ece/dc948/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-08-06_new_43054579_I3.JPG Email A grieving mother has described the power of breastfeeding as the experience that helped her cope as her baby son clung to life. Kelly Bramwell found out at her 20-week scan that her baby had a potentially deadly heart defect. And while doctors warned her to expect the worst, the beauty therapist from Annalong, Co Down, never imagined the trauma that lay ahead. "It was the worst day when we found out, nothing can prepare you for hearing your baby is going to be very sick when they're born," said … [Read more...] about Breastfeeding my baby Rhys helped me to cope as he clung to life
Hospital sepsis deaths ‘jump by a third’
Health By Sarah Bloch-Budzier BBC News 3 August 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with WhatsApp Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45045438 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel Sepsis deaths recorded in England's hospitals have risen by more than a third in two years, according to data … [Read more...] about Hospital sepsis deaths ‘jump by a third’
How $17 Billion of High-Risk Financing Undid Britain’s Hospitals
Ian Swithenbank describes himself as “old school.” A former coal-mine electrician who started work at 15, he’s instinctively suspicious when something appears too good to be true.It was this mindset that he took into meetings of a National Health Service governing board he was on in 2000, when it had to decide whether to build a new hospital in Hexham in northeast England.The existing facility was a collection of single-story temporary buildings dating back to World War II. And the government was offering an apparently miraculous source of finance: A private company would build and service the hospital and the organization that managed it would pay the money back out of hospital revenue. The financing, originated by Bank of Scotland, would be off the government’s books.Swithenbank was hardly an expert at high finance. But his sense of caution, along with that of others on the board, helped rescue the future hospital from financial disaster: They voted … [Read more...] about How $17 Billion of High-Risk Financing Undid Britain’s Hospitals
Palestinian president Abbas leaves hospital
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas left hospital on Monday following eight days of treatment for pneumonia and pledged to return to work. The 83-year-old, dressed in a suit as usual and walking without assistance, gave a short statement on being discharged, saying he planned to be back at work in his office as normal on Tuesday. "Thanks to God, I left the hospital today in good health and return to work starting tomorrow," he said, speaking vigorously and with his two sons by his side. "I thank the leaders, kings, politicians, presidents, brothers -- Arab and non-Arab -- who have kindly asked about me, and I am thankful to all." Abbas, known to be a heavy smoker, was admitted on May 20 to the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank with complications following an ear operation, including high fever. Officials have since said he was being treated for pneumonia. His extended hospitalisation led to widespread speculation over whether his condition was worse than … [Read more...] about Palestinian president Abbas leaves hospital