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Procalcitonin test fails to shorten antibiotic use in hospitalized children
A groundbreaking UK study led by the University of Liverpool has examined whether an additional blood test called procalcitonin (PCT) could safely shorten the time children spend on intravenous (IV) ...
NHS is ‘out of time’ says man who waited 12 hours in A&E after coughing up blood
A man was forced to wait for 12 hours overnight in a hospital emergency department after coughing up blood and said the NHS ...
Every patient to be tested for HIV in Liverpool A&E departments
Liverpool's hospitals are ramping up HIV testing efforts, introducing opt-out procedures for several departments. Patients ...
Another Merseyside hospital has declared a critical incident
Another Merseyside hospital has declared a critical incident as the crisis in Accident and Emergency continues to grip the ...
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Liverpool University Hospitals Trust: all the key numbers for the NHS Trust in November, as Government warns "it will take time to turn the NHS around"
Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Liverpool University Hospitals Trust in November, new ...
Hospital wards face ‘pandemic-level’ strain with soaring flu cases triggering winter crisis
Around 20 hospital trusts across England have declared critical incidents with staff facing ‘mammoth demand’ due to the cold ...
My 80-year-old father spent 40 hours on bed in hospital corridor and didn't get treated properly for a week - he's upset and angry at state of the NHS
Colin Gray's daughter, Kirsty, described seeing ambulances queuing outside while the emergency department in Wirral, ...
See how many flu patients are in hospital near you - full NHS list
The number of patients on wards with flu increased by a fifth from 4,469 at the end of December to 5,408 last week, NHS data ...
'Horrific' scenes in A and E - woman describes 80 year old dad's 40 hour wait in hospital corridor
Liverpool man waits 40 hours in corridor in 'horrific' A and E at Arrowe Park Hospital with queue of 15 ambulances outside | ...
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'Peak yet to come' as people told to wear masks to limit virus spread
In recent days hospitals in Northamptonshire, Cornwall, Liverpool, Hampshire, Birmingham, Plymouth and the Wirral have ...
Winter ‘quad-demic’ crisis ‘feels like the pandemic’ – with hospitals ‘full to bursting and patients collapsing in A&E’
THE dreaded ‘quad-demic’ has finally hit, with four winter bugs overwhelming NHS hospitals all at once, new figures confirm.
Hospital flu cases triple on last year amid ‘mammoth demand’ on wards
UK’s most senior doctor said the ‘mammoth demand’ had come on the back of the busiest year on record for A&E and ambulance ...