Virginia ranked second in hospital patient nationwide in the most recent Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade state rankings.
Proposals for a mixed-use £80 million development including hundreds of flats at Ocean Point in Leith have been granted planning consent, leaving some local residents angry about the lack of green space in the area. The development at Ocean Point 2 by property developer S Harrison Developments will comprise residential and purpose-built student accommodation, along with commercial uses/co-working and amenity space. The plans were approved today, Wednesday, May 15, by councillors on City of...
The Government’s newly created ‘Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel’ made a series of recommendations to give NHS patients stuck on waiting lists the chance to choose faster treatment at a local private hospital. These include publishing data on appointments that are available at local private hospitals to NHS patients but going unused, more information for local GPs to help give patients the choice to be referred on the NHS to a private hospital with a shorter waiting list, and new...
Health systems are trying to move more of the work they do to your house.
Party says pooling resources across regions would deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week for patientsHospitals would have to share waiting lists and pool resources under Labour’s plans to reduce waiting times by delivering up to 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week.The party has announced that patients would be offered appointments at nearby hospitals, rather than necessarily at their local one, which would enable people to receive faster treatment. Hospital staff and resources would be pooled...
A multi-million-dollar renovation planned for the emergency and X-ray departments at Petrolia’s hospital is nearly at the starting line.
Former advisor to Boris Johnson says his 'Start-Up Party' could capitalise
Disability Rights of West Virginia has filed a civil complaint against Sharpe Hospital and others, alleging that mentally disabled man was unlawfully committed and abused.
The law took effect earlier this month.
A doctor at Tufts Medical Center in Boston worked to help develop a drug to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare but often deadly disease.
Dr. George Kondylis, chief medical officer at Lawrence General Hospital, joins WBUR’s Morning Edition to discuss the how other hospitals are feeling the effects of Steward Health Care's financial tribulations.
More change in the writers room at General Hospital. Patrick Mulcahey — who was promoted in January to help fill the void left by co-head writers Chris Van Etten and Dan O’Connor — is no longer on the soap’s head-writing team, Deadline has confirmed. Elizabeth Korte, who was upped alongside Mulcahey, will become the sole head writer for […]