A SOUTHAMPTON hospital worker has tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus. A healthcare professional from University Hospital Southampton has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Coronavirus: First patient from Hampshire confirmed The worker had worked a single nightshift in the hospital’s surgical high dependency unit last Friday. The surgical high dependency unit is now temporarily closed […]
An NHS trust at the centre of an inquiry into preventable baby deaths will repay money it received for providing good maternity care. In 2018, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust received almost £1m, weeks before its services were rated inadequate. The BBC revealed in December the trust had qualified for the payment under the NHS’s […]
HEALTH officials have issued advice after a Hampshire resident tested positive for Coronavirus – the first case in the county since the outbreak in China. Public Health England have confirmed that 12 further patients have tested positive for the deadly virus in England today. Bringing the total of UK cases to 51, the patients are […]
HOSPITAL admissions for self-harm in Southampton hit a record high last year, figures have revealed. Public Health England data shows there were 1,035 emergency hospital admissions for self-harm in Southampton in 2018-19 – the most since comparable records began in 2010-11. The Southampton statistics were also well above the rate of England with 73 cases […]
An independent review will be held into maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust after up to 15 babies died there in recent years. Nadine Dorries, minister for patient safety, pledged immediate action and said NHS England would investigate the two hospitals in Margate and Ashford. On Wednesday the trust’s chief executive said there […]
WOMEN giving birth at a Hampshire hospital eel they are treated with kindness, understanding, respect and dignity, according to a new survey. The 2019 Maternity Survey, part of the patient survey programme co-ordinated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), asked mums who gave birth in February 2019 to answer questions about different aspects of their […]
It is not a scene from a music video or a night club promotion but an advertisement for women’s clothing which was this week banned for overly-sexualising and objectifying women. Pretty Little Thing, the online fashion retailer responsible for the advert, says it “celebrates all women and body diversity”. And it seems that many women […]
No vaginal mesh implants have been carried out in Scotland since the chief medical officer announced a halt last October, new figures show. The government had asked health boards in June 2014 to consider suspending the use of mesh products but they had continued to be offered to women. It followed controversy about the procedure […]
A HAMPSHIRE company has invented the world’s first commercially available test for the deadly coronavirus. Chandler’s Ford-based Primerdesign took just two weeks to create a test which detects the virus, which has so far claimed 170 lives across the globe. The company has already received 10,000 orders – and the figure is expected to soar […]
Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England, overtaking breast cancer for the first time, latest figures show. In 2018 there were nearly 50,000 registered cases – around 8,000 more than in 2017. Public Health England says it is because more men are getting tested. And that is thanks to celebrities, like […]
