Healthcare charities and patient groups are calling on NHS England to reintroduce Covid-19 precautions for staff, amid fears that clinically vulnerable patients and medics will be put at risk this winter. Since Covid safety measures were dropped earlier in the year, staff in NHS England are no longer required to […]
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Europe’s post-Covid healthcare problem: how staff burnout has hit services
Staff burnout and demographic changes threaten a permanent contraction in the European health workforce, with the sector’s leaders warning they may never restore the capacity to treat patients to pre-pandemic levels. Across the continent, clinicians are confronting a damaging mismatch between demand and resources, with public spending cuts forcing them to consider […]
Long Covid patients abandon Stanford Medicine study on infection after staff stop wearing masks
Long COVID patients enrolled in a study at Stanford University have walked out because the staff were not wearing masks while tending to them. The participants were enrolled in a clinical study into whether the drug Paxlovid works to reduce the symptoms of long COVID. Over the course of the […]
UK HealthCare plans $2 billion expansion for hospital, staff
University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Wednesday, April 6, 2023 Ryan C. Hermens [email protected] The University of Kentucky is planning a massive expansion of its health care system in the coming years, university officials announced Thursday. The expansion includes adding an additional 300 hospital beds to the Chandler Hospital […]
Canadian Hospitals, Strapped for Staff, Strain With Sick Children
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian hospitals are straining to care for an influx of sick children, many with respiratory illnesses, in the midst of staffing constraints and as a shortage of children’s over-the-counter medication sends more kids to hospital. Hospitals across the country are reassigning staff to pediatric care and putting […]