7,971 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 62 of 80.
“Robert McGill suffered severe brain injuries after the accident at Kilmarnock Academy last April.”
“An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive following the accident found that no formal training had been given to any of the electricians working for the council expected to use the airlift.”
“He had used a small calibre .22 gun.”
“Smoking was banned in and around the hospital's buildings in 2005.”
“There was overwhelming evidence that staff found it extremely difficult to enforce the policy with patients and visitors.”
“Staff were reluctant to approach smokers for fear of violent reaction and verbal abuse.”
“Smoking by night staff was identified as a particular problem to contend with.”
“She anticipated that changes to allow smoking in designated areas outside the hospital buildings - such as allowing patients to smoke under supervision in the ward gardens at the Christchurch site - would be implemented towards the beginn…”
“The government poll of more than 2m patients, which is used to help determine pay, shows a slight drop in access and satisfaction during 2009-10.”
“The survey showed 80% of patients who wanted a quick appointment got one last year, down from 84% the previous year.”
“Of those who wanted to book ahead, 71% could do so down from 76%.”
“Overall satisfaction rates dropped slightly as well from 91% to 90%”
“Practices were overloaded with work related to the swine flu pandemic.”
“The £451m rebuild of Royal Liverpool hospital has been given the green light... Building work on the hospital, which is receiving £328m of funding through a Private Finance Initiative (PFI), is due to start in 2012.”
“Plans for the new 643-bed hospital were approved in March...”
“Building work on the hospital... is due to start in 2012.”
“former health secretary, Andy Burnham saying it would 'lead the way' in regional health care.”
“health minister Simon Burns has confirmed the work will go ahead.”
“They say although 18 million free swims were taken up in the first year - many of those who took part would have done so anyway, even if they had to pay.”
“It also said that over-60s who took part increased their swimming sessions so the number reaching the government-recommended average of 30 minutes exercise a day went up from 66.2% of those surveyed to 78.4%.”
“For under 16s - who are supposed to do 60 minutes exercise a day - 32.9% managed to hit the target after free swimming was introduced, up from 20.7% beforehand.”
“Of swimmers surveyed, 82.5% of the over-60s said they were likely to have gone anyway.”
“Of the under-16s the figure was 72.9%.”
“losing 2,000 records”
“in March they had lost or destroyed in error the records of physiotherapy patients at Haywood Hospital in 2006.”
“Aimed at helping people access and benefit from sport - 49 across England.”
“New hospital at Wynyard Park, on Teesside to replace existing hospital in Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Hospital plans axed by government”
“it affects only 2% of middle-aged men.”
“Over 3,300 men from across Europe were assessed for the New England of Journal study.”
“Scientists led by a team from the University of Manchester looked at the testosterone levels of 3,369 men aged 40 to 79 from eight European centres.”
“all three sexual symptoms of the nine testosterone-related symptoms we identified”
“Mr Watkinson was suspended from the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) in 2008 after concerns about his management.”
“He was sacked in 2009.”
“An industrial tribunal ruled in May his sacking was 'substantively unfair'.”
“He said the government had approved a number of projects including funding for essential medicines in case of a flu pandemic, some hospital projects, support for post offices and spending on "crucial military equipment" in Afghanistan.”
“A £2.5m refurbishment project is planned for Stratton Community Hospital in Bude.”
“the project would not be axed but any cuts in capital spending could cause a delay any building work.”
“the PCT was 'absolutely committed to delivering the project' and it was 'the highest priority.'”
“During routine work in the evening of 16 June, a Forgemasters employee was taken to the Northern General Hospital. He was later pronounced dead.”
“including the death of three railway workers in the past year.”
“Two thirds have mental health problems.”
“Three thousand people registered with the Anthony Nolan Trust after her mother Vicky launched the appeal.”
“It is hoped she will have the operation in the next few weeks after intensive chemotherapy.”
“She is being treated at the Alder Hay Children's Hospital in Liverpool and it is hoped she will have the transplant in a few weeks time.”
“The entire process from transplant to recovery is expected to take a few months.”
“Anyone aged between 18 and 40 and in good general health was eligible to register to become a potential bone marrow donor for Alice.”
“at the age of 42”
“61% of Gazans are "food insecure"”
“80% of Gazan households rely on some kind of food aid”
“Unrwa provides food aid for 750,000 people, half the population”
“Unrwa rations provide about two-thirds of dietary needs”
“the number of Gazan that it helps who are unable to buy basic items such as soap, stationary and safe drinking water has tripled since 2007”
“more than half Gaza's households had sold their disposable assets and were relying on credit to buy food, three-quarters of Gazans were buying less food than in the past, and almost all were eating less fresh fruit, vegetables and animal p…”
“one third of children under five and women of childbearing age are anaemic”
“Before Operation Cast Lead, Gaza had only 133 hospital beds per 100,000 population, compared to 583 in Israel”
“Six hospitals suffered damage, including one that had a new building completely destroyed, another lost two whole floors”
“10,544 patients and their companions left the Gaza Strip for medical treatment in Israel in 2009”
“permission for 21% of patients was denied or delayed, and 27 patients in total died during the year while waiting for referrals to Israel”
“According to the World Health Organization, one third of children under five and women of childbearing age are anaemic.”
“East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) in Quidenham supports more than 100 families”
“The £94,000 has paid for nurses to care for children in their own homes”
“to pay for a 24-hour call-out nursing service”
“Some 23% of adults among Lesotho's population of 1.9 million are HIV-positive and average life expectancy is 34.”
“alcohol abuse costs Northern Ireland up to £900m a year”
“The World Health Organisation says that increasing the price of alcohol is one of the most effective ways of curbing harmful drinking.”
“It says that 40% of young people have rated their sex education as poor or very poor - and that improving sex education will help young people to make healthier choices.”
“We also know education about sex and relationships is more effective if it is introduced before young people first have sex,”
“For most children, attitudes to alcohol start to develop long before they begin to drink,”
“However concerns that some women may underestimate their drinking, as well as fears that a lack of evidence did not mean moderate consumption was safe, are thought to have informed the 2007 decision to advise pregnant women in England to a…”
“The conference will also look at the issue of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and accompanying disorders - the reason why pregnant women are advised to abstain from alcohol in many countries - including the UK, US, France and Australia.”
“To the list of pregnancy prescriptions and proscriptions comes another mandate: be happy, be calm. Pregnant women are exhorted to avoid stress and to moderate their emotions in order to produce a healthy baby. Yet the evidence behind this …”
“She adds: "They have decided it is preferable that pregnant women take no risk even if there is no evidence of harm."”
“Fathers meanwhile are being increasingly encouraged to curb their drinking, stop smoking and eat well when a partner is pregnant, on the basis that his behaviour is likely to influence hers.”
“Attendance at ante-natal sessions, as well as the birth, is now widely expected.”
“But research to be presented by Jonathan Ives and Heather Draper of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at Birmingham University will question this mantra”
“"It's a good and positive step to promote male involvement, and we are not seeking to undermine that," says Dr Ives. "But we are getting to a point where society has to ask if we are going about this the right way. It's time for debate."”
“the number of temporary doctors had surged in the past decade from 3,700 to 8,200”
“Scottish hospitals could save £6m a year by using fewer agency doctors”
“commission paid to private agencies, which charge an average of 23% and sometimes more than 30%”
“NHS in Scotland could save almost 15% of the money it spent on temporary doctors through better planning”
“A total of 549 general surgeons responded to the online questionnaire - about one in four members of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.”
“About one in five of the nearly 600 surgeons questioned by Bournemouth University reported being involved in incidents, during a two-week period, where patients were harmed.”
“Of these 40% said they had been involved in an untoward event where a patient was nearly harmed, and a further 19% where there was actual harm, during the two-week period covered by the survey.”
“The authors of the paper, published in the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons, estimate that the problems arose in about 3% of operations.”
“Nearly 600 surgeons responded to the questionnaire.”
“The development of a medical records database for 50m patients in England is a central plank of the £12bn upgrade of the NHS's IT systems.”
“To date, just 1.2m patients have had their records uploaded although 30m have received letters informing them about the system.”
“This may even lead to the programme going over the £200m budget, the BBC understands.”
“Patients are allowed to stop their records being uploaded, but less than 1% of those who were written to have done this.”
“Mrs Witchalls, who was 10 weeks pregnant with Dominic during the attack, was given the last rites before her condition improved.”
“She has a full head of hair, is breastfeeding well and weighs in at 7lb 12oz.”
“Wales' largest employer, the NHS, has been warned by assembly ministers it has to reduce its budget more than £1bn over the next three years.”
“She used to spent £90 a year on prescription medicines, which can be up to 30 tablets per day and said that going back to paying for prescriptions would not be fair.”
“Nurses make up the largest part of the more than 90,000 staff in the health service in Wales.”
“An estimated 2,000 girls in the city are at risk.”
“About 90% of Somali mothers I see have a form of female [genital] mutilation - some of them think the minor type is acceptable but the practice is illegal and very painful.”
“Eighty per cent of elderly people get depression”
“A survey suggested of the thousands they helped last year, 87% often lived on one meal a day.”
“With a blood alcohol level between my proposed new limit of 50mg per 100ml and the current 80mg per 100ml limit, a driver has a six times greater risk of road death than a non-drinking driver.”
“Sir Peter North said reducing it from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg would save hundreds of lives.”
