Row breaks out over doctor hours
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Doctors and the government are at loggerhead over getting GPs to work in the evenings and weekends.
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DALHOUSIE, NB (CP) - Five of six roadblocks put up by protesters upset over the closure of local hospital beds in northern New Brunswick were taken down Wednesday.
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A great-grandmother with chest pains says she waited two hours for a call from an out-of-hours doctor service.
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The marathon hours worked by doctors-in-training in U.S. hospitals are leading to an alarming number of fatigue-related medical errors that often kill patients, researchers said on Tuesday.
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THE flight of doctors and nurses from public hospitals is without doubt the largest crisis in health care today. The scale of the problem is staggering. According to the Health Systems Trust, 52574 posts were vacant in the public health sector last year, ...
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Ministers are writing to every GP in England urging them to accept plans for extended opening hours.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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A last minute offer by the province of New Brunswick to avoid a strike by hospital workers in the province has failed. Premier Bernard Lord presented the employeeâs union with a plan to increase wages over the next four years.
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Health secretary writes to every GP in England urging them to accept plans to extend surgery opening hours
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CHANGES IN the training of junior doctors and the introduction of the European Working Time Directive has led to a chronic shortage of qualified staff and warnings that patient care could be compromised, ...
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the country are urged by doctors not to go back to work for 48 hours.
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Patients aren&#39;t getting the clot-busting treatment they need on time, a study says. TORONTO -- Emergency room overcrowding is standing between heart attack patients and the clot-busting drugs they need to
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A patient suffering severe chest pains claims he had to stand for hours in a hospital because of a lack of beds.
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Hundreds of staff involved in providing medical equipment to hospitals across England began a 24-hour strike in what union bosses claim to be the biggest walk-out to hit the country's largely free National Heath Service (NHS) in 20 years.
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Americans have a harder time than residents of several other countries getting after-hours appointments with a nurse or primary care physician without going to an emergency room, a study released yesterday found.
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One in three doctors has been physically or verbally attacked at work in the last year, but most did not report it, a survey reveals today