45 h. ago NHS ‘cannot continue to ask doctors to perform the impossible’ amid staff shortages

A recent poll suggested that a lack of senior doctors on duty is negatively impacting patient care

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1 week ago Yorkshire kids have worst teeth in UK as one place has 995 extractions in a year

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star Sunday found that some of the worst areas in the country for the health of kids' teeth came from Yorkshire as NHS dentists continue to have long queues

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2 w. ago Six metres below ground, a hospital treats Ukrainian soldiers injured by Russian drones

Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overheadScrubby trees hide the entrance. A sloping wooden tunnel descends to a brightly lit reception area. There is a surgery unit, equipped with beds, cardiac monitors and ventilators. And shelves full of medical equipment, drugs and neat piles of spare clothes. In a staff room with a washing machine and kettle, doctors keep an eye on a screen. It shows the movements of Russian spy drones as they zigzag in the sky above.Welcome to Ukraine’s secret underground hospital. The facility opened in August and is the second of its kind, located in eastern Ukraine not far from the frontline and the city of Pokrovsk, in Donetsk oblast. “We are 6 metres below the earth. It’s the safest way of providing help to our injured soldiers. And it keeps medical personnel safe,” said the clinic’s surgeon, Maj Oleksandr Holovashchenko. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Six metres below ground: inside the secret hospital treating Ukrainian soldiers injured by Russian drones

Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overheadScrubby trees hide the entrance. A sloping wooden tunnel descends to a brightly lit reception area. There is a surgery unit, equipped with beds, cardiac monitors and ventilators. And shelves full of medical equipment, drugs and neat piles of spare clothes. In a staff room with a washing machine and kettle, doctors keep an eye on a screen. It shows the movements of Russian spy drones as they zigzag in the sky above.Welcome to Ukraine’s secret underground hospital. The facility opened in August and is the second of its kind, located in eastern Ukraine not far from the frontline and the city of Pokrovsk, in Donetsk oblast. “We are 6 metres below the earth. It’s the safest way of providing help to our injured soldiers. And it keeps medical personnel safe,” said the clinic’s surgeon, Maj Oleksandr Holovashchenko. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Resident doctors in England to go on strike for five days next month

Strike on 14-19 November is part of escalating industrial action over pay and job insecurityDoctors in England will go on strike for five consecutive days in November in a row over jobs and pay.The British Medical Association (BMA) said resident doctors would strike on five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November. Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, make up about half of all doctors in the NHS. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago NHS Fife pays for six more lawyers to fight Sandie Peggie employment tribunal

Deliberations are continuing in the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and NHS Fife and trans doctor Beth Upton.

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3 w. ago Dining across the divide: ‘We didn’t agree on immigration. She was almost conspiratorial’

She thought he was naive; he thought she was too staunch on immigration. Would they find common ground on capitalism, Trump or nuclear power?Lucas, 23, BlackpoolOccupation Works for the NHS Continue reading...

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