Victoria Macdonald
Hayley Fullerton death: where next for the hospital?
Birmingham Children’s Hospital, which treated baby Hayley Fullerton before she died at 13 months, are refusing to go on camera. This is what they had to say.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Victoria Macdonald
Putting a stop to means-testing for end of life care
When Roger Phillips was told he had terminal cancer, he made it clear to his daughter and son that he wanted to die at home. It didn’t happen as he and his family were not given the help they needed.
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Victoria Macdonald
Heroin ‘unchic’
“The over-40s were a legacy from the last recession which saw an epidemic of heroin use.”
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Victoria Macdonald
UK ovarian cancer survival rates lag behind other countries
While survival rates for some types of cancer, including breast and colon, have improved dramatically over the past 40 years, the UK record for ovarian cancer remains relatively poor.
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Victoria Macdonald
Acute hospitals on the brink of collapse
Bad news for the newly installed health ministers from the Royal College of Physicians which warns in a report that patient care is threatened by hospitals under strain.
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Victoria Macdonald
Does a lack of staff mean poor healthcare?
Is there a direct link between the number of staff available on a ward and good or bad patient care?
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Victoria Macdonald
Aids 2012: Turning the Tide
The discussion is not necessarily of ‘total cure’ but a functional cure. That means finding a way that people can live still with the virus but no longer have to take anti-retrovirals drugs.
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Victoria Macdonald
Doctors’ strike will challenge the government
Wherever people’s sympathies lie, this is a difficult moment for the government, to be presiding over policies which will lead to the first industrial action by doctors since the 70s.