Patient sex abuse protection call
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Measures to protect female patients from being sexually abused by doctors should be strengthened, a report says.
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An assembly committee has called for an urgent independent inquiry into hospital-acquired infections.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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HONG KONG - The relatives and political colleagues of a Hong Kong democracy activist jailed in China for soliciting a prostitute yesterday called on the Chinese authorities to release him on medical grounds, a colleague said.
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group is calling on hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery -- an experience that medical experts believe happens 50 to 100 times each day.
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Cancer patients are facing unfair dismissal and discrimination at work, a BBC investigation has revealed.
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A complaining patient removed from a medical practice's list has prompted concerns about new doctors' contracts.
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Lack of equipment leaves calls unmonitored Primary care trusts are not adequately monitoring out of hours telephone calls, according to a committee of MPs.â¦
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Health dept does u-turn The Information Commissioner has been told that patients will have the opportunity to refuse to have their details uploaded onto the new NHS medical records system. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Health refused patients that right.â¦
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A bookmark distributed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services not only teaches teens and children about HIV and AIDS, it provides a phone number that patches them into a hardcore sex hot line. St.
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A woman is treated in hospital after suffering a serious sexual assault in County Londonderry.
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Days after a psychiatrist publicly denounced the state of mental health care at St. Joseph&#39;s Health Care London, hospital officials told employees to sign what some workers are calling a gag order.
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A hospital consultant is calling for widespread HIV testing for accident and emergency department patients.
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A GP threatened to kill himself if a patient told the authorities about their affair, a hearing is told.
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A physician has been charged with sexually abusing women who had come to his office for ailments varying from lower back pain to sinusitis, the authorities said.
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The Legislature is again considering a bill that would require health providers in Massachusetts to obtain a patient's consent before treating them with reprocessed medical devices and instruments that are designed to be used once. Senate Bill 1338, which is being pushed by the state's medical device industry, is scheduled to be heard by the joint legislative Committee on Public ...