Everything about the patient in front of me is ringing alarm bells. She is the first of ten complex cases I will see that day at the start of what will be a ten-hour shift as an A&E doctor, and she is clearly seriously ill.
Aged 60, she has blood cancer and is due to have chemotherapy later that day. But she is feverish and says she has a burning pain when passing urine.
It’s obvious she has a urinary
It had been more than an hour since Anissa Lahmari had scored the goal that put Morocco in front, the one that was poised to deliver another historic win for her team at its first Women’s World Cup.
But it was not over yet. And so Morocco’s players had to wait.
They huddled together around a staff member’s cellphone as Germany bombed balls upfield, as it tried to thread passes through a stingy South Korea defense and as it lofted
The NHS hasn’t completely eliminated its waiting list of patients who have been stuck in the system for over two years, despite the Government’s bold promise.
Under the Covid recovery plan, ex-Health Secretary Sajid Javid stated ‘no-one’ in England would be waiting more than 24 months for treatment such as hip and knee ops by July.
But Health Minister Maria Caulfield has since admitted that ‘a small number of patients’ were still waiting beyond two years by the end of
Als wir uns dem Flughafen näherten, überprüfte ich die Zeit, und mein Magen zog sich zusammen. Mein Handgelenk war nackt, wie an dem Tag, an dem mein Sohn vor mehr als 20 Jahren plötzlich starb. Schlimme Dinge sind passiert, als ich vergessen habe, meine Uhr zu tragen. Mein Mann, der meinen Sohn nie kannte, nahm meine Hand und hielt sie, bis ich mich an Folgendes erinnerte: Trauer hat keine Bedeutung für Uhren oder Zeit, und Freude
A health minister has defended the Government’s record on treating cancer, despite data showing more Britons are waiting longer for urgent treatment than ever before.
Minister for patient safety and primary care, Maria Caulfield, insisted No10 had prioritised cancer patients during the Covid pandemic when she was quizzed by MPs from the Health and Social Care Committee today.
She said: ‘Since the start of pandemic in March 2020, there have been over 4million urgent referrals for cancer and over 960,000
