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09/18/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

England’s NHS can’t afford Big Pharma: They will only pay for a new Hep C treatment if the patient is cured

England’s National Health Service (NHS) is showing signs that it is cash-strapped: It has recently announced that it will no longer automatically shoulder payment for the treatment of its citizens who are Hepatitis C-afflicted; it will only do so once the patient is cured. Those who are lucky enough to get cured will have their expenses and […]

05/19/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Hundreds of thousands of British pounds spent by the NHS on super-sized ambulances for the obese

Super-sized ambulances are now being used to accommodate the growing number of obese patients in England. From 52,000 obesity-related admissions in 2006, the figures have ballooned to 520,000 admissions in 2016, reported BBC.com. In a report by the Telegraph.co.uk, ambulance trusts were said to have spent at least 1.3 million British Pounds on these specially-customized […]

04/07/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Hip surgery on a Sunday? Think again… it could be your last

Bristol University researchers have concluded that elderly patients are more likely to die if they undergo a fractured hip surgery on a Sunday. Termed “the weekend effect“, the study looked at more than 250,000 cases of hip fracture surgery and saw that 12.5 percent of these were performed on a Sunday. It was found that […]

03/11/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Routine operation kills “extremely active” grandmother after doctor’s blunder

The U.K. National Health Service is facing a lawsuit from the devastated family of a woman who died after a botched routine operation. The NHS is the country’s socialized, government-run healthcare delivery system. In a horrific scenario, doctors reportedly inserted a replacement heart valve upside down into great grandmother Sheila Hynes, 71, who suffered massive […]

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