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		<title>Stroke And Heart Attack Patients Wait 1 Hour For Ambulances</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC report that they have seen statistics which show that patients needing lifesaving treatment are being denied prompt transfer to hospital.  The statistics relate to the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, which serves Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
The figures are said to have shown that in 2010/2011 there were 351 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortage of midwives “threatens patient safety”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal College of Midwives has reported that there is a shortage of midwives across England.
They claim that an extra 4,700 midwives are required, with the worst hit areas being the east and south east of England, where they calculate 41% and 33% more midwives are required.  The General Secretary of the Royal College of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care Quality Commission criticised by MPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by the Health Select Committee has been highly critical of the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
 
The Health Select Committee claim that the CQC had carried out only 2,000 inspections of hospitals and care homes between October 2010 and March 2011, compared to 7,000 in the same period in the previous year and concluded that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report Finds That Elderly Patients Are Failed By The NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The care of the elderly in the NHS has been roundly criticised by a report prepared by the Health Service Ombudsman.
The report focused on the nursing care received by 10 patients, but the Ombudsman says that they are by no means isolated cases.  She states that of the 9,000 complaints that her office receives each year, 18% relate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital To Close Maternity and A&amp;E Services For Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queen Mary&#8217;s Hospital in Sidcup, South London, has announced that it intends to close its maternity and accident and emergency departments over the winter.
The hospital has a high number of vacant posts for doctors and midwives but, for one reason or another, it has not been possible to recruit staff to fill the posts.  As a result, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed Safety Alerts &#8220;Putting Patients At Risk&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by the charity Action against Medical Accidents concludes that patients are being put at risk by the failure of NHS organisations to act upon safety alerts.
Patient Safety Alerts are issued to warn of known and avoidable problems that have repeatedly harmed or killed patients.  The alert not only warns of the risk, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Radcliffe Hospital Child Heart Surgery &#8220;Should Remain Suspended&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart surgery on children at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, should remain suspended, a report has recommended.
Between December 2009 and February 2010 there were four child deaths at the hospital all following surgery by a recently appointed surgeon.  The surgeon asked for the heart surgery service to be suspended and that the equipment within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widespread Prescription Errors Discovered by GMC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by the GMC has found widespread errors in the prescription of drugs to hospital patients.
The study examined prescriptions in 19 hospitals and found errors in 11,077 prescriptions, which amounts to approximately 1 in 9 prescriptions.
The study also analysed the experience of the doctors who had made errors and found that, contrary to popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basildon Hospital Criticised By Care Quality Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government&#8217;s healthcare watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has publsihed a report making numerous criticisms of the Basildon &#38; Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust &#8220;the Trust&#8221;.
The Trust is responsible for Basildon and Orsett Hospitals in Essex, which were the subject of a surprise inspection by the CQC.  The inspection uncovered a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chairman of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust Sacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monitor, the government body who oversee NHS Foundation Trusts has dismissed the chairman of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust.
Richard Bourne was removed from his post after Monitor found the Trust failed to meet a series of waiting time targets, including those for cancer referrals and for patients waiting in the accident and emergency department.
The Trust [...]]]></description>
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