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'My dying wife waited NINE hours for district nurse to turn up': Family slams NHS 111 hotline as whistleblowers reveal a 'computer says no' mentality worthy of Little Britain comedy
London :: United Kingdom | 15 hours ago
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Members of the public are supposed to call 111 when they need medical help fast but it's not a 999 emergency', according to the Department of Health. The idea is to make it simple for people to reach the right medical care 24 hours a day, seven days
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The unkindest cut
Chennai :: India | 1 day ago
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Rajesh Bites from donkeys and sliced forefingers hurt a lot less when there's a family' doctor on call. In this house, we now count spots to fall asleep; we rank our itches on a scale of 1 to 10; and the daughter who caught it from school and passed
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A helpline in crisis and doctors who still refuse to put patients' interests before their own
London :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
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Kim Green waited on the line for the best part of an hour as she sought help for her dying husband, unable to provide pain relief as spasms racked his cancer-ridden body For weeks there have been many stories emerging of patients left hanging on the
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NHS 111: Patient Deaths Under Investigation
London :: United Kingdom | 16 days ago
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The deaths of three people are under investigation in connection with the NHS 111 non-emergency phone line, according to a report in the general practitioners trade magazine Pulse. The magazine reported that at least 22 possible "serious untoward
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Why does the NHS keep making the same mistakes?
New York :: NY :: USA | 17 days ago
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In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Dame Barbara Hakin, the interim chief operating officer for NHS England, who has responsibility for the service, said she was adamant the NHS would learn from any mistakes it had made. But this is not the
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Is this the end of premium rate lines to call your GP? NHS orders to doctors to drop 40p a minute charges
London :: United Kingdom | 23 days ago
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26 April 2013 NHS England is in charge of enforcing GP contracts and is taking a tougher stance with GPs For the first time GPs have been told by the NHS to drop plans to charge patients up to 40p a minute to ring their surgeries. NHS England told
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Four million extra patients a year flood A&E after Labour's 'disastrous' decision to allow GPs to stop night work
Ipswich :: United Kingdom | 25 days ago
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Does this not show how many patients GP's see in the population. GP's are private contractors who are paid for the work that they do (they do not have a set salary) and have to pay their own premises, staff, electricity, etc unlike doctors who work
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111 helpline blamed for chaos in casualty: A&E patients 'dumped in corridors... and cupboards'
London :: United Kingdom | 26 days ago
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23 April 2013 Failings in the NHS 111 helpline have left A&E units so overwhelmed that patients are being dumped in corridors, X-ray rooms and even stationery cupboards, nurses claim. In some hospitals it is now fairly routine' for patients to wait
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Shock 250% rise in patients waiting more than 4 hours in A&E: Six-month total soars by 146,000 - as Labour says crisis is worst in 20 years
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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13 April 2013 Hundreds of thousands more patients are being forced to wait longer than four hours for emergency care as A&E departments across the country struggle due to closures and staff shortages. Official NHS data reveals a growing crisis in
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Major hospitals have missed A&E targets every week for six months, warns Labour
Eastbourne :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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He's crept out of the woodwork now the Mid Staffs business has gone quiet. Two20 , Eastbourne, United Kingdom, 03/4/2013 16:53 These stupid targets brought in by Labour dont work anyway, and were part of the propblem at stafford with people being
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