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...Four of the newly-identified hospitals are in London, five in the south-east, four in the north-east and Yorkshire, two each in the Midlands and the south-west and one in north-west England....
...Almost 60 per cent of the confirmed cases in 2023 were in children under 10, with many in London, the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber, the agency said....
...The West Midlands authority is on track with its 2016 target to build 215,000 new homes by 2031....
...We come in early, leave late and log in from home because of the massive inbox full of test results, hospital discharge letters, prescription queries and hospital correspondence — because all of this unseen...
...Sunak has made tough decisions in the past — raising income tax to meet the Conservatives’ manifesto pledges on extra police, new hospitals and better public services, as well as resigning from Johnson’s...
...Unite on Friday said workers in the East Midlands, West Midlands, North East, North West and Wales would take part in industrial action, as Sharon Graham, its general secretary, accused the government of...
...Professor Sir Chris Ham Co-Chair, NHS Assembly Solihull, West Midlands, UK...
...Many gardens sprang up on disused “grass deserts” on council estates, hospitals and schools, says Amber Alferoff of the Social Farms & Gardens charity....
...When he was a senior manager at an NHS trust in England’s Midlands, a psychiatric patient died after staff failed to notice an abrupt deterioration in the man’s physical health....
...And Andy Street, you know, we think he could just about survive in the West Midlands....
...Hospital doctors and nurses were gripped by a spirit of camaraderie and can-do, in stark contrast to the weary burnout we see today....
...Separately, the UK Health Security Agency said that England’s weekly hospital admission rate for Covid rose to 4.69 per 100,000 population from 4.45 in the previous week....
...It added that there would be walkouts in the West Midlands on January 23 and in the north-west of England on January 24....
...And as a result of this funding, all hospitals will use electronic patient records, making the NHS the largest digitally integrated healthcare system in the world....
...At the time, the campus included the Midlands Prison, a facility known for jailing abusive priests....
...The group added that 58 per cent of its target patients are more likely to consider using a private hospital as a result of growing NHS waiting lists....
...These figures might suggest that England’s hospitals are suffering an acute crisis in their own health, one which requires an urgent infusion of money and staff. But that would be a misdiagnosis....
...Private providers said they had been removing beds in mental health hospitals as a result of staffing shortages that had affected patient care....
...The department of health mandated in April that anyone moving from hospital into a care home must first have received a negative test result, unless the home was equipped with infection control measures...
...“I had to hold phones to people who were dying in hospital, to let them talk to their loved ones . . . I’m going to need counselling as a result of those harrowing things.”...
...Of course, that £36bn does not help if you are a business or, indeed, a school or a hospital, all of which are also going to struggle with mounting energy costs....
...The new hospitals programme. And gigabit broadband rollout....
...Under a new health and social care levy announced last month, the NHS is to receive about £30bn in additional funding over three years with a substantial proportion earmarked for clearing a hospital waiting...
...Typical of texts that have gone out to patients is one from a West Midlands group, which pointedly noted: “The government has instructed our practices to redeploy staff (including GPs) to the Covid booster...
...At University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire in the Midlands, length of stay for Covid patients has been falling, aiding efforts to keep elective surgery going....
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