Transmission is mainly through contaminated surfaces in hospitals. It sticks to intravenous lines and blood pressure cuffs. It’s really hard to clean off, according to Dr Neil Stone, leading fungal expert at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London. Source link
Strikes coincide with busiest Monday of the year for some A&E departments, says NHS England boss. Source link
A one-size fits all approach can leave patients feeling uncomfortable and exposed, patients say. Source link
He and a colleague, Prof Hywel Morgan, both later won an MBE for their work producing the respirator, but despite talks with Dyson, they decided not to patent their design. Instead they made it open source – publishing the design on the internet so that others could reproduce it in South Africa among other countries. […]
Deaths in the country, which for long had one of the lowest Covid death rates, peaked earlier this month. Source link
Hospitals in Wales “didn’t want to know” about the needs of disabled staff, says Dr Georgie Budd. Source link
The test scheme will see chemo drugs, blood samples and mail flown between hospitals at up to 70mph. Source link
A new report found that just about 25 percent of hospitals are fully compliant with a federal price transparency rule that requires all hospitals to post their prices online in an accessible and searchable format. The report, published by the Patient Rights Advocate on Monday, said that it surveyed the websites of 2,000 large hospitals […]
The NHS is being given an extra £250m to buy beds in care homes as it grapples with a winter crisis. Source link