Patients wait 'for over a year'
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One in eight hospital patients are waiting for over a year, government figures show.
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Because of a shortage of beds at Maryland psychiatric hospitals, a growing number of patients, including many who are involuntarily committed, are spending days in emergency rooms, often in violation of a state law that mandates that they be placed at a comprehensive care facility within 30 hours of...
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Patients are not receiving the best service from GPs despite their pay improving, an assembly report finds.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals, Royal Melbourne, is contacting 1056 people who have undergone brain or spinal surgery in the past 18 months after a patient died this year of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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Patients seeking urgent care in U.S. emergency rooms are waiting longer than in the 1990s, especially people with heart attacks, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Among health-care workers and relatives of the terminally ill, tales of patients who somehow &quot;held on&quot; past the holidays or birthdays are common.
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A woman told to wait 17 weeks for breast screening discovers she has cancer after a private test.
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A wait of even three years for a kidney transplant is worth it, according to a Canadian study presented the American Society of Nephrology in St.
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Doctors said that the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of treatment.
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Patients who want to see a GP in the evening should face a charge, some family doctors say.
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Patients are not receiving the best care they could be because of the 48-hour GP access target.
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When patients in the hospital suddenly go into cardiac arrest, the staff often takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds.
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Today more than 5,500 people in the UK are waiting for an organ transplant that could save or dramatically improve their life. Most are waiting for a kidney, others for a heart, lung or liver transplant.
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Some dementia patients have gone years without leaving their NHS hospital wards, BBC Scotland learns.
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Miami (Knight Ridder) -- In a major development that 600,000 doctors have been waiting almost a year for, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the doctors can pursue their class-action lawsuit charging the major health insurers with
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Patients may not be given a choice of hospitals by the end of the year as ministers promised, a report says.
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Patients seeking an appointment with a dermatologist to ask about a potentially cancerous mole have to wait substantially longer than those seeking Botox for wrinkles.