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...The number of nurse student applicants fell 7.4 per cent in January compared with the previous year, according to data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, leaving the government far behind...
...Emergency rooms at military hospitals have been made available for civilian use, while the government has authorised nurses to conduct medical procedures usually performed by doctors....
...Cosentini said the first days of 2024 were the worst, when his hospital had to rush to add doctors and nurses and create new wards “because there were too many sick people”....
...She adds that, like a low-cost airline, there are often extra unforeseen costs tagged on, for things like nurse observation and additional one-on-one support....
...For every patient picked up in primary care, before emergency admission, the NHS saves £2,500....
...New legislation designed to curb strikes by enforcing minimum services in various sectors of the UK economy is an “admission of failure” by the government in dispute resolution, the opposition Labour party...
...The NHS also carried out 9 per cent fewer emergency admissions, 5 per cent fewer outpatient appointments and 11 per cent fewer elective and maternity admissions in March 2023 than in the same month in 2019...
...Well over half a million people — 30 per cent of the population — are currently waiting for appointments, admission or diagnostic tests....
...However, she estimated that about 10,000 outpatient appointments and between 800 and 1,000 admissions for surgery or other procedures would have to be postponed across the trust....
...If that admission was made, “then the juniors would be able to say, ‘right OK, so now . . . let’s discuss how to get back to restoring that value over whatever period of time you want to negotiate about”...
...Doctors, nurses and ward staff spend hours every day filling out forms when they could be looking after patients....
...Some hospitals, for instance, institute a red-tray system that tells nurses when patients need help eating....
...Compounding the crisis, nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers are set for a fresh wave of strikes later this month....
...“It is quite plausible that hundreds of deaths a week are associated with delays to admission,” he said....
...Underlining its potentially transformative impact, he recalls the case of a patient in an acute psychiatric hospital who had been violent on admission and had been put in an isolation room and sedated....
...At the same time, all hospitals with a major A&E department will have same-day emergency care units, staffed by consultants and nurses....
...The book carried a shocking admission....
...“The average nurse will pay more, the average lawyer will pay a lot less,” the person says, adding that Labour is looking at changing the level of interest rates paid depending on income and recalibrating...
...We can draw inspiration from Denmark, where GPs collaborate closely with other local services, such as acute care teams who help prevent hospital admissions....
...Other countries have done this far more effectively and are reaping the rewards in more co-ordinated care and lower hospital admissions....
...One thing that won’t be predictable tomorrow — in fact, it will be trailblazing — is the UK’s first ever T-level results (“University admissions to return to ‘more predictable’ cycle, says UCAS chief”, Report...
...“Paying people at the top of the market is a necessary price of admission to compete,” says Van Gorp, who was elected chair of the firm in 2021. “But it is not a differentiator.”...
...We’ve got to give our doctors and our nurses the wherewithal, the funding, to deal with that.”...
...In Northern Ireland, patients face a median wait before admission of 13 hours and 19 minutes in A&E, according to official data, as Jude Webber reports....
...In England 43,000 people spent more than 12 hours waiting for a bed in October after a doctor decided they required admission. The equivalent figure in October 2019 was 729....
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