Patients become NHS bug busters
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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Thousands of intensive care patients are set to benefit from a drug which has been recommended to NHS doctors.
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More than a dozen wards in hospitals are shut by illness, in some cases caused by a winter vomiting bug.
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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Emergencies responded to quickly beat targets but concern remains over  patients waiting to be taken to A&E.
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Help is at hand for foreign doctors working in Yorkshire whose patients complain of sore "lugholes" or say they're feeling "jiggered" and can't stop "gipping".
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Virulent norovirus has forced at least 56 hospital wards across England and Wales to close to new patients.
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Some dementia patients have gone years without leaving their NHS hospital wards, BBC Scotland learns.
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Help is at hand for foreign doctors working in northern England whose patients complain of sore "lugholes" or say they're feeling "jiggered" and can't stop "gipping."
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UK scientists are developing a vaccine to combat the life-threatening Clostridium difficile hospital bug.
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Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.
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Sufferers are being lured by faddish diets from private clinics, doctors say.
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Pupils at a primary school are offered  bird flu medicine as a child from the school is believed to have the virus.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread
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Virulent norovirus has forced at least 70 hospital wards across England and Wales to close to new patients.
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Scientists analyze germs on people's skin and discover that we're literally crawling with the little buggers. In Bodyhack.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.