Medics call for 'safer' hospitals
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Nearly all doctors, nurses and managers think their hospitals need to be made safer for patients, a poll suggests.
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Specialist hospital units will have to close and moved to super regional hospitals, leading doctors say.
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A plea by doctors' leaders to give greater protection to family GPs will be acted upon, the health minister promises.
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Protesters worried that several  hospitals could shut demonstrate as health chiefs discuss their fate.
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Patients with serious injuries are put at risk by untested and potentially dangerous treatments, experts say.
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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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Doctors are calling for stricter alcohol laws in a bid to reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths.
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Politicians join the public at a rally to demand an end to hospital closures and the centralisation of services.
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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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A medical accreditation group Tuesday urged hospitals nationwide to take steps to prevent ``anesthesia awareness&#39;&#39;--instances in which patients wake up during surgery and sometimes
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Emergency units which last week saw queues of ambulances are visited by Welsh Health Minister Brian Gibbons.
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WASHINGTON - Citing statistics that one in 10 hospital patients worldwide are victims of preventable medical mistakes, the World Health Organization on Wednesday launched an initiative to create a âculture of safetyâ in health care.
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WASHINGTON Oct 27, 2004 - Citing statistics that one in 10 hospital patients are victims of preventable medical mistakes, the World Health Organization on Wednesday announced an initiative to create a &quot;culture of safety&quot; in health care.
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Campaigns to save local A&E departments from closure could cause many unnecessary deaths each year, a report has warned.
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AUSTRALIA is to join a new World Health Organisation initiative to create a &quot;culture of safety&quot; in health care amid concerns that one in 10 hospital patients are victims of preventable medical mistakes.
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Hospitals are told they must do more to tackle infections - including the MRSA superbug - at Welsh hospitals.
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A hospital consultant is calling for widespread HIV testing for accident and emergency department patients.