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/ 2 years ago‘70,000’ appointments cancelled due to nurse strike with cancer patients waiting six weeks for new date
UP to 70,000 appointments were cancelled in yesterday’s nurses’ strike, ministers have claimed. Cancer, heart and surgery patients must now wait...
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/ 2 years agoI’ve got a Brussels sprouts phobia – I dread Christmas Day because of the festive veg
A GRAN says she dreads Christmas Day because she has a phobia of Brussels sprouts. Kerstin Shepherd, 54, says she gets...
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/ 2 years agoThree more Strep A deaths as total hits 19 – and cases of scarlet fever soar
THREE more children have died from deadly invasive Strep A in Northern Ireland and Wales – taking the tragic UK total...
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/ 2 years agoAlternative antibiotic to treat Strep A gets green light after weeks of ‘shortages’
PHARMACISTS can now prescribe an alternative to penicillin in order to treat Strep A. It comes after pharmacies across the UK...
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/ 2 years agoNHS saw 60% surge in demand last week as Strep A outbreak sweeps UK
DESPERATE parents are flooding NHS phone lines in a panic about the Strep A outbreak in kids. Calls to 111 rocketed...
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/ 2 years agoStriking nurses break the picket line to give emergency first aid to man who collapsed
STRIKING nurses this morning broke their picket line in order to give emergency first aid to a man who collapsed. Healthcare...
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/ 2 years agoNurses to strike for first time in union’s history today with cancer care and A&E departments to be hit by walkouts
NURSES will strike for the first time in their union’s history today. Health chiefs urged Brits to keep using the NHS...
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/ 2 years agoStrep A antibiotics in short supply, warn pharmacists as death toll in children hits 16
ANTIBIOTIC supplies for Strep A are going from bad to worse, warn pharmacists, while a probe has been launched into rocketing...
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/ 2 years agoJoey Essex runs game of bingo for elderly as he backs our Helping Hands at Christmas campaign
JOEY ESSEX tried out a new number when he called bingo at a Royal Voluntary Service social club in aid of...
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/ 2 years agoHeartbreaking moment small pink coffin for tragic girl, 5, who died from Strep A, driven through street ahead of funeral
A TINY pink coffin for a five-year-old girl who tragically died from Strep A was driven through the streets today ahead...
