Hundreds more A&amp;E doctors needed
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Hospital A&amp;E departments would need three times the number of consultant doctors they had at present if they were to offer patients the best possible treatment, the NHS director of emergency care in England conceded yesterday.
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More than 17,000 people receiving treatment in the UK have died unnecessarily because of the inadequacies of the NHS, it is claimed today
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One of the city&#39;s principal hospitals has referred 980 surgeries to three private hospitals because of nursing shortages in the operating rooms, authorities have confirmed.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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NHS Direct is referring on too many patients to GPs and emergency services, putting strain on the system, doctors and ambulance crews say.
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A private health care firm criticised for the way it runs its out-of-hours GP service is to take on more doctors.
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PETER CAVE: As the death toll rises, the Sri Lankan Government has appealed to doctors all over the world to come forward and help the victims.
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Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more.
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Leading physicians call for more sports medicines specialists to help UK athletes and to help tackle obesity.
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The number of patients who use hospital A&E departments when they do not need to is reviewed.
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Urgent action is needed to deal with the rise in tuberculosis cases in the UK, doctors are warning.
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CHICAGO A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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For paramedics in rural areas, responding to frantic calls for help is at times akin to doing a high-wire act without a net. Mountains, valleys, bad weather and long distances between hospitals make communication with emergency room physicians spotty at best and nonexistent at worst.
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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More patients must allow medical students to provide care, to safeguard doctors' training, researchers say.
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On the eastern side of the District, you've got three hospitals that are too small and too limited in the services they offer, with not enough private doctors sending insured (read: paying) patients their way.
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Some family doctors have five times the number of patients than others, research shows.