Medical students being urged to help in NHS hospitals as winter crisis worsens

Medical students being urged to help in NHS hospitals as winter crisis worsens

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-winter-crisis-medical-students-help-short-staff-hospital-cuts-health-a8159271.html By Caroline Mortimer  Inexperienced undergraduates are being asked to plug labour gaps as NHS trusts struggle to cope with increased pressure Undergraduate medical students are being urged to help relieve the NHS winter crisis because hospitals are so short-staffed. Despite not yet qualifying as doctors, medical students are being asked to volunteer on A&E units as they struggle…

Fears of Brexit drain as more EU27 ambulance staff quit the NHS

Fears of Brexit drain as more EU27 ambulance staff quit the NHS

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/13/nhs-ambulance-staff-quit-brexit-eu27 By Denis Campbell Departures could exacerbate vacancy rates in already understaffed service Increasing numbers of European Union-trained ambulance staff are quitting the NHS, raising fears of a Brexit drain from the 999 service just as concern over slow response times grows. There are fears the departures could exacerbate high vacancy rates in ambulance…

How the NHS winter beds crisis is hitting patient care

How the NHS winter beds crisis is hitting patient care

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2018/jan/11/how-the-nhs-winter-beds-crisis-is-hitting-patient-care By Josh Holder NHS hospitals were forced to add over 5,000 extra beds in one day this winter — that affects the care patients receive The winter crisis reached a new peak last week as NHS trusts had to provide 5,075 extra beds on 2 January to cope with demand, the…

Breast cancer gene mutation ‘doesn’t affect survival’

Breast cancer gene mutation ‘doesn’t affect survival’

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42648761 By Katie SilverHealth reporter, BBC News Young women treated for breast cancer who carry faulty BRCA genes are not less likely to survive than those without them, research suggests. A study of nearly 3,000 British women also found that a double mastectomy straight after being diagnosed with this type of…

Increased stress at work linked to higher risk of diabetes

Increased stress at work linked to higher risk of diabetes

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-stress-diabetes/increased-stress-at-work-linked-to-higher-risk-of-diabetes-idUSKBN1F02VW By Lisa Rapaport Researchers examined data on 3,730 petroleum industry workers in China. At the start of the study, none of the workers had diabetes. After 12 years of follow-up, workers who experienced increasing stressful tasks on the job were 57 percent more likely to develop diabetes, the study team…