The failure to recognize ectopic pregnancy is causing women’s deaths
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The drowning of a nine-month-old boy in Cumbria has prompted a coroner to call for a national safety campaign on the dangers of baby bath chairs after a series of similar deaths and injuries.
English council bosses demand urgent help for ‘exhausted’ unpaid carers and Social services directors have set out a reform plan and say care system has never been so close to breaking point
The CQC report highlights a single nurse who was left alone to care for 17 patients amid a staffing crisis at the Good Hope Hospital in the Midlands.
More than 500,000 people in UK visited ‘warm rooms’ during the winter, with people visiting due to loneliness as well as to keep warm.
A Women and Equalities Committee report is calling for faster progress to tackle “appalling” higher death rates for black women and those from poorer areas in childbirth, where racism has played a key role in creating health disparities.
The number of NHS patients placed on to mixed-sex wards reaches all-time high of nearly 5,000 in January 2023, this compares with 2,156 cases in January 2020 and only 407 in January 2013. Campaigners have long argued that single sex wards are paramount to protecting the dignity of both sexes and the safety of women, particularly the elderly.
Care home residents urgently need more security to prevent “revenge evictions”, after research revealed that at least one in 70 care residents in England received a notice to quit last year, and many of these came after issues were raised.
Millions of young adults are living in poor quality housing, with up to 2.6 million people aged 18-34 in damp, draughty and cramped living conditions.
Safe housing denied to 10,000 women in England fleeing domestic abuse last year due to lack of shelters which could be forcing victims to return to their violent partners or leaving them homeless.
NHS England has published its three year maternity delivery plan which aims to make maternity and neonatal care safer, with trusts needing to employ enough midwives to safely staff services within five years.
NHS organisations in Wales will be legally required to be more open and transparent after the introduction of new Welsh Government legislation.