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It’s Certainly an Accident That Requires Urgent Attention – but A&E?
Nov 22nd
Stepping in dog poo isn’t what Aneurin Bevan had in mind when he established the NHS but that’s exactly the “emergency” that a North West woman expected her local A&E department to tackle.
It’s just one of a catalogue of misuses revealed in Click Manchester. Dr Mike Cheshire, medical director at NHS North West is reported as saying: “Something needs to be done quickly about the growing number of preventable emergency services abuses.”
Mobile Phones Allowed on Wards
Sep 24th
They should never have been banned. The misinformation about the danger of interference has only served to reinforce growing mistrust with authority. It great therefore to see the ban removed – in Wales at least.
According to the BBC: “Health Minister Edwina Hart is to say that hospitals’ bedside phone contracts with private suppliers should not be renewed when they come to an end.
The promotion of mobile phones and fixed lines in designated NHS areas fulfils a commitment of the coalition government’s One Wales agreement.”
The full article is here
A statement from Ms Hart’s office said health boards would determine the exact arrangements but that they would also aim to minimise potential noise and disruption for other patients by people using mobile phones.
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