NHS is to set up special units to help treat mothers who are plagued by the trauma of PTSD 

NHS is to set up special units to help treat mothers who are plagued by the trauma of PTSD There will be 26 specialist mental health hubs to support mothers suffering PTSD First 10 hubs will be open within months while the rest will be open by April 2022 Experts said one in four women … Read more

Beyonce’s storage units ‘targeted by thieves who stole $1MILLION of goods’

Beyonce’s storage units ‘targeted by thieves who stole $1MILLION of designer handbags and dresses’ By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 10:05 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 10:05 GMT, 27 March 2021 Beyonce’s storage unit has reportedly been targeted by thieves who stole $1million worth of valuables including designer handbags and dresses. The 39-year-old singer is … Read more

Pressure on NHS Intensive care units is FINALLY easing

Pressure on NHS intensive care has started to ease for the first time since the second wave of coronavirus took off and Test and Trace data shows cases of the disease are down 40 per cent in a fortnight.  The number of hospital patients in general beds with Covid-19 has also dropped to its lowest level … Read more

Hospitals cancel home births and shut down stand-alone maternity units

Hospitals cancel home births and shut down stand-alone maternity units, but still ban mothers-to-be from having their partners at their side on the wards Since the start of the pandemic, home births have provided a solution for women This is due to hospitals banning them having partner at their side during labour But now, with virus … Read more

Almost 40% of maternity units are hit by failings, watchdog says

Almost 40% of maternity units are hit by failings: Huge number of centres for mothers-to-be are failing to meet basic safety standards, health watchdog warns Nearly four in ten maternity services are failing to meet basic safety standards, a safety watchdog has warned 38 per cent of units were currently rated as ‘requiring improvement for … Read more

Survival rates for Covid-19 patients in UK intensive care units have risen by 10%

Ten per cent more of Britain’s sickest coronavirus patients are surviving than at the start of the pandemic. Analysis of NHS records shows that 44 per cent of intensive care admissions were dying of the virus when the pandemic first started to spiral out of control in March. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research … Read more

Healthcare workers in COVID-19 units are NINE TIMES more likely to get infected

Healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients face a much higher risk than their colleagues, but a hospital’s ventilation system may protect them, two new studies reveal. More than 5.4 percent of physicians, residents, nurses and other clinicians from coronavirus units had positive test results as did 0.6 percent from non-coronavirus wings, researchers found in one report. … Read more

Coronavirus unit’s cleaning contract given to firm underpaying staff at NHS hospital

Cleaning contract for emergency coronavirus field hospital at London’s ExCel Centre is handed to private firm accused of not paying staff Outsourced cleaning firm ISS have received the contract at the coronovirus unit The firm has been accused of not paying staff at University Hospital Lewisham  Union GMB said the private firm took over the … Read more

U.S. has ordered ‘millions of units’ of malaria drug as potential coronavirus therapy

Donald Trump explodes in anger after being asked if he is giving false hope to ‘scared’ Americans by buying malaria drug as he called ‘game-changer’ coronavirus cure – despite Tony Fauci saying there is NO proof it works or is even SAFE President Donald Trump said the nation has ordered ‘millions’ of units of an … Read more

Intensive care units ‘should stop treating elderly if coronavirus outbreak worsens’

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Italy has jumped in the last 24 hours by 196 to 827 as a top Italian doctor said intensive care wards should place an age limit on beds. Rather than admit patients on a ‘first come first served’ basis, hospitals should swap to ‘catastrophe medicine’ guidelines – … Read more