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83.6% of patients attending A&E departments in England were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. That’s the lowest level on record, going back to 2010. Read
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The US sets levels of natural contaminants in food above which it takes immediate enforcement action. The EU doesn’t set such levels. Read
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While it’s certainly possible the NHS could pay more for drugs after a post-Brexit US trade deal, we can’t say what this would look like until after a draft agreement has been released. Read
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Type 2 diabetes sufferers make up one in 10 hospital admissions in England but a small fraction were admitted for type 2 diabetes as the main diagnosis. Read
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Just under 97,000 nurses voluntarily resigned from the NHS in England between 2010 and 2018. Overall the number of nurses working in the NHS is higher than in 2010. Read
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A local UKIP Facebook page has shared a misleading image about the flu vaccine. Read
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Lib Dems abstained from a motion regretting that the government hasn’t pledged to repeal the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, which extended health privatisation. Read
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It’s hard to tell whether someone in the US or UK is more likely to get a foodborne disease. Read
Most flu injections in the UK are inactive and therefore cannot spread between people. Read
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The number of registered suicides in England is up, but changes to how suicide is recorded may account for some of the rise. Read
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