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Treatment for violence-related injuries 'fell in 2011' - BBC News 18/04/12

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:55:07 +0000

"The number of people needing hospital treatment for violence-related injuries in England and Wales has fallen for the third year running, a study suggests."

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Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:55:14 +0000

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Fazakerley hospital first to set up elite life-saving team of doctors and nurses - Liverpool Echo 10th February 2010

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:06:19 +0000

"A LIVERPOOL hospital is the first in the North West to set up an elite 24 hour team of doctors and nurses to save lives. The Medical Emergency Team (MET) system used at Fazakerley Hospital is based on one introduced in Australia and the USA."

Tags: Health News CMHN Hospitals Organisational Design Accident and Emergency Departments Liverpool Echo

Death rate at Royal Liverpool Hospital A&E ‘worst in the country’- Liverpool Daily Post 9th February 2010

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:33:08 +0000

"ACCIDENT victims are more likely to die at the Royal Liverpool Hospital than anywhere else in England, shock new figures have revealed. The survival rate at the city's main hospital is the lowest in the country, according to research released to a study that condemned the lack of care at night and at weekends in casualty departments."

Tags: Accident and Emergency Departments Quality Mortality Hospitals Health News CMHN Liverpool Daily Post

British pub fights get safer with new design glasses - The Independent 9th February 2010

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:07:04 +0000

"Drunken pub fights in Britain are set to get safer with the invention of a strengthened beer glass that health authorities hope will cut the huge bill for treating inebriated brawlers. The traditional pint glass - which holds just over half a litre of beer and is favoured by drinkers across Britain - has been redesigned so it is harder to smash, said Design Bridge, the company behind two prototypes."

Tags: Violent People Alcohol Health and Safety Accident and Emergency Departments Health News UHN The Independent

Response times: The real facts - Lancashire Telegraph 8th February 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:19:56 +0000

"AFTER the article (LET, February 1), I wonder just how stupid Hazel Harding thinks the people of East Lancashire are. The shake-up of A&E services in this area has been an unmitigated disaster. Even the appalling figures published don’t tell the true story. The increasing use of single- manned, fast-response vehicles by the ambulance service is just a way of covering up the true response times. How many of the public are aware that as soon as a fast response vehicle arrives at the scene of an emergency, the clock stops and that is counted as the response time? "

Tags: Ambulance Services Health News CLHN Waiting Times Accident and Emergency Departments NHS Hospitals Organisational Design

Better child-diabetes care urged - BBC Health News 8th February 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:51:33 +0000

"A "shocking" number of children are being rushed to hospital each year with potentially fatal complications of diabetes, according to a charity. Many of the 3,300 cases in England in 2008/9 could have been prevented by better care, says Diabetes UK. "

Tags: Diabetes Emergency Admissions Accident and Emergency Departments Children Young People Health News UHN BBC Health News

The flight of angels: saving lives in Afghanistan's airborne A&E - Daily Mail 6th February 2010

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:03:08 +0000

"The most traumatic nursing station in the world is in an RAF Chinook over the skies of Afghanistan. In a unique exercise, the MOD granted Live access to photograph their work - the agonies, the triumphs and the bloody heroism"

Tags: Accident and Emergency Departments Armed Forces Health News UHN Daily Mail

Wii Fit players have suffered breaks and dislocations, report doctors - Daily Telegraph 6th February 2010

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:10:15 +0000

"A 14-year-old girl broke her foot falling off her Nintendo Wii Fit balance board while other players have been left with dislocations and head injuries, doctors have reported. "

Tags: Wounds and Injuries Information Technology Health News Accident and Emergency Departments UHN Daily Telegraph

Royal Bolton Hospital warned for failing to meet A&E target - The Bolton News 2nd February 2010

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:15:28 +0000

"BOSSES at the Royal Bolton Hospital are to be called to account after failing to achieve a key target. Hospitals are required to admit, transfer or discharge 98 per cent of patients who attend the accident and emergency department within four hours. "

Tags: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times NHS Hospitals GMHN Health News The Bolton News

Tories criticise hospital readmission rates - The Guardians 1st February 2010

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:02:15 +0000

"Party says figures suggest patients are routinely being released before they are well enough"

Tags: Patient Discharge Patient Admission Waiting Times Accident and Emergency Departments Health News UHN The Guardian

500,000 hospital patients sent home too soon - Daily Mail 1st February 2010

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:10:58 +0000

"More than 500,000 patients every year are readmitted to hospital after apparently being sent home too soon, alarming figures reveal. Labour's waiting-time targets have been blamed for the 50 per cent rise in emergency readmissions of patients within days of them being discharged. "

Tags: Patient Discharge Patient Admission Waiting Times Accident and Emergency Departments Health News UHN Daily Mail

Alcohol a factor in 42,000 cases of child hospital admissions - Daily Telegraph 28th January 2010

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:12:06 +0000

"Alcohol was a factor in almost 42,000 cases of children under 18 being admitted to English hospitals in the last three years, official figures showed today. "

Tags: Alcohol Young People NHS Demand Accident and Emergency Departments Health News UHN Daily Telegraph

A patient treated every four-and-a-half minutes in Bolton - the Bolton News 28th January 2010

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:41:30 +0000

"THE accident and emergency department at the Royal Bolton Hospital had its busiest ever year last year, with a patient being treated every four-and-a-half minutes. New figures show that the hospital had 110,496 visits to the department between March 2008 and April 2009. "

Tags: Accident and Emergency Departments Demand NHS Hospitals Health News GMHN The Bolton News

Almost 500 people a day 'in casualty after an assault' - Daily Telegraph 26th January 2010

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:11:50 +0000

"Almost 500 people a day go to casualty departments because they have been assaulted, official figures show. "

Tags: Violent People Accident and Emergency Departments Demand NHS Health News UHN Daily Telegraph

We have to stop this booze culture harm - Lancashire Telegraph 21st January 2010

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:38:28 +0000

"I spent a couple of hours last Thursday in the pub after the game against Aston Villa – taking part in what (until Sunday’s win against Fulham) has recently been all too familiar, a discussion about what Rovers needed to do better to start winning games, and offering the usual hopeless prayers to the ether about the ref. Later on Friday evening, after two advice surgeries and a meeting I popped into a town centre pub for a pint and an unwind. "

Tags: Alcohol Health News CLHN Lancashire Telegraph Accident and Emergency Departments NHS Demand

NHS Halton and St Helens says alcohol-related harm is “top priority” as figures show cases are on the rise - Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News 21stJanuary 2010

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:27:16 +0000

"A&E ADMISSIONS due to alcohol in Halton and St Helens are among the highest in the country. And, worryingly, the numbers have increased for two successive years, despite efforts by health chiefs to tackle the problem."

Tags: Accident and Emergency Departments Demand Alcohol Health News CMHN Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

NHS to close hospitals across London to cope with spending squeeze - The Guardian 19th January 2010

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:15:27 +0000

"Hospitals across London will shut, lose A&E departments and shed thousands of beds under a shake-up of care in the capital ordered by NHS bosses. A leading official at NHS London, the city's strategic health authority, said it intended to push through changes so that the service could cope with an imminent financial squeeze in the NHS and deliver better quality and more accessible treatment for patients."

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Get an ambulance, I've broken a fingernail - Manchester Evening News 18th January 2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:53:53 +0000

"A BROKEN fingernail, a blocked nose and an in-grown toenail – these are among the medical ‘emergencies’ overstretched A&E medics have been asked to treat. And paramedics report they have also been called out to help someone with a ring stuck on their finger, a contact lens stuck in their eye and toothache, all in the past couple of weeks."

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Booze puts twelve Cumbrians a day in hospital - Carlisle News & Star 18th January 2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:50:29 +0000

"Alarming figures today reveal the strain serious booze-fuelled illnesses are putting on Cumbria’s hospitals. More than 350 people-a-month are admitted to county emergency units suffering from liver failure, alcohol poisoning and mental health issues."

Tags: Alcohol Accident and Emergency Departments Liver Diseases Mental Health Hospitals Demand Health News CLHN Carlisle News & Star