7,971 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 67 of 80.
“More than half of the 3,000 people polled by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists said they went to work when feeling unwell or stressed.”
“While a quarter of those polled took no lunch break at all, a third worked through most of theirs.”
“Half of those who did so said it was because they had too much work to do, and a third because there were not enough staff to do the work required.”
“Stress was also an issue, with more than 40% feeling stressed at least once a week.”
“"Work is good for us and can contribute to our physical and mental well-being - but not when overworking means people don't have the time or energy to look after their own health or when staff are at work but not fit for work," said Ann Gr…”
“Ben Willmott, of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: "These findings should ring alarm bells for employers."”
“Work on the new hospital could start in 2012 Hospital chiefs must wait until autumn before hearing if the £451m rebuild of the Royal Liverpool has been dropped.”
“Plans for the new 643-bed hospital were approved in March, but the new coalition government is considering scrapping the project.”
“Building work on the hospital will cost £328m and was set to be funded through Private Finance Initiative (PFI) cash.”
“The remaining £123m was earmarked on the purchasing of equipment and demolishing the old Royal.”
“"We will have to wait until the autumn for a decision when the spending review is concluded and determined," he told the Commons.”
“The Treasury is re-evaluating all projects given the go-ahead since January as part of a widespread spending review.”
“about half a million people in Britain have autism to varying degrees.”
“only eight or nine genes have been confirmed as playing a role.”
“in the 1,000 patients involved in the study.”
“up to 300 genes which are involved.”
“in a fifth of the patients they have studied.”
“within the next two years.”
“on 1,000 newly diagnosed children”
“within two years”
“It is thought that about half a million people in Britain have autism to varying degrees.”
“It has been known for some time that autism has a strong genetic influence - but up until now only eight or nine genes have been confirmed as playing a role.”
“Researchers using a new systematic analysis technique identified faults in many more regions of DNA in the 1,000 patients involved in the study.”
“They say they might eventually find up to 300 genes which are involved.”
“The researchers have identified these new regions of DNA in a fifth of the patients they have studied.”
“The team hopes to catalogue all the genes involved in autism within the next two years.”
“Researchers at Oxford and Newcastle are now applying for funding to carry out a pilot study on 1,000 newly diagnosed children to see if such a genetic test would be useful.”
“We'd hope that within two years we'd come up with clinical practice guidelines.”
“Melissa Procter-Blaine, 32, collapsed at The Crown Inn, Spondon, Derby, on 12 July 2009 and later died in hospital from a blood clot on her lung.”
“The fast response vehicle arrived on scene within six minutes and the ambulance within ten minutes of the call being picked up in control.”
“Pub manager Kevin Pearson, 35, said at the time:”
“the family had many questions that needed addressing about the initial treatment of the mother-of-three.”
“According to official figures, at least two million people in Russia are classified as alcoholics.”
“The average amount of pure alcohol consumed by the population has doubled since the 1990s.”
“The home provides specialist residential accommodation for up to 44 users with alcohol-related brain damage and poor mental health, as well as respite and daycare services for another 16 people.”
“Witnesses told the committee in evidence that increasing numbers of younger women and men, including those in their 30s, are developing alcohol-related dementia.”
“Plans for the Pathway project were scrapped in 2007”
“A decision to cancel a massive hospital rebuilding project in Leicester has cost taxpayers £11m in compensation.”
“"Cancelling the Private Finance Initiative was a brave decision - had my predecessors continued with the scheme, we would now be locked into a contract costing £90m a year placing substantial extra pressures upon our finances beyond the cu…”
“who has worked at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital since 1999”
“Dr Motwani was excluded from Derriford Hospital in June 2008 and an investigation was carried out after concerns were raised about his work.”
“A review said four patients died, although they had complex conditions and it was not clear if they would have survived alternative treatments.”
“The GMC hearing, which is expected to last for about five months, will consider a number of other allegations against the cardiologist”
“After riding 153 miles from Gwynedd to Cardiff”
“The British Toilet Association said the number had fallen about 40% in a decade.”
“one lorry driver had told her he had been fined for indecent exposure for relieving himself on the side of the road after failing to find a public toilet.”
“grants of up £500 to local businesses that are willing to open their toilets to the general public”
“over 130 organisations, including the Cambrian Woollen Mill in Powys and Llys Nini Animal Centre in Swansea, joined the scheme.”
“The British Toilet Association said the number had fallen about 40% in a decade”
“Mike Bone from the British Toilet Association said there were no figures available for the number of public toilets in the UK, but it was estimated that around 40% had been closed in the past 10 years”
“They remain in the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol in a stable condition.”
“Last year, Zoe Frisby, 35, from Burbage had her leg amputated after developing a heart infection.”
“She was in a coma for seven weeks after the operation at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and eventually had to have her leg amputated.”
“The Glasgow University study of 400,000 schoolchildren”
“those born between 37 to 39 weeks were 16% more likely to develop problems than those born at 40.”
“the overall risk was still relatively low, at 5% of all children.”
“nearly 5% of the children studied were recorded as having SEN.”
“for every 100 babies born between 37 and 39 weeks, there may be one more diagnosis of SEN than among 40-week contemporaries.”
“Early term births - between 37 and 39 weeks gestation - are becoming more common, because more mothers are electing to be delivered early for non-medical reasons - so-called birth scheduling," lead author Jill Pell, an expert in public hea…”
“Professor James Walker, a consultant and spokesperson from the RCOG said very few Caesareans were now carried out before 39 weeks”
“Latest figures show a quarter of all births in the UK are carried out by Caesarean.”
“Some 15% of these are emergency operations, and 10% are planned.”
“About 7% of these elective operations are thought to be due to the mother's wish rather than medical grounds.”
“she had to take him for treatment at the hospital up to three times a week.”
“The hospital, which has about 1,300 car parking spaces, had moved staff parking away from the main buildings to increase spaces.”
“The problems continued over a period of 18 months before her diabetic husband Dave died in January 2009, aged 57.”
“Torbay Hospital's parking came out just below half way down in a survey of 126 English hospitals by watchdog Which?”
“North Devon District Hospital was second best in the Which? report.”
“The Royal Devon & Exeter was just out of the top 10”
“Derriford Hospital in Plymouth came out just below half way down.”
“Mrs Holmes said she had to take him for treatment at the hospital up to three times a week.”
“Out of Devon's other main hospitals, North Devon District Hospital was second best in the Which? report.”
“In England, about 3 million children are living in poverty.”
“It cited a catalogue of poor standards, including cases where receptionists had been used to assess emergency patients. But this was just one of a long-line of reviews. These included an independent inquiry launched by the government. It w…”
“There will be a full public inquiry into the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital, the government has announced.”
“The trust had been climbing the NHS ratings ladder during the period in question and was even given elite foundation trust status.”
“The final report is expected in March 2011.”
“His death was ruled as homicide, largely as a result of the powerful anaesthetic drug Propofol.”
“A public consultation runs until 6 September.”
“A study by the University of Edinburgh suggests that M-Pesa customers are increasing their incomes by between 5% and 30%.”
“Social work services has more than 1,600 full-time staff working in mental health and care services.”
“Last month, services provided for vulnerable children were praised by the HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIe). Five of the six areas evaluated by inspectors were rated as very good and the remaining one as good.”
“reports said the judges could partially lose their sight.”
“but Changzhou district court president Judge Liao Kedong suffered burns to half his face.”
“Other reports suggested Judge Liao and his colleague, Judge Wu Zhibin, could each lose sight in one eye.”
“who was eight weeks pregnant when she was wrongly told her baby was dead.”
“Michael Jr, is now 13 weeks-old.”
“She had four previous miscarriages”
“it was six years old”
“six months after our diagnosis”
“If she had taken the drug two days later, the baby would have died.”
“Michael Redmond was speaking about his wife Melissa, who was eight weeks pregnant when she was wrongly told her baby was dead.”
“After a check-up at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda last July, a procedure was arranged to remove the foetus.”
“The mother-of-three, from Donabate, north Dublin, said it was lucky she sought a second opinion and her baby boy, Michael Jr, is now 13 weeks-old. ... "She had four previous miscarriages and after a very quick scan at the hospital they sai…”
“her baby boy, Michael Jr, is now 13 weeks-old.”
“The health scanner was not fit for purpose; it was six years old and needed to be changed.”
“The machine was finally changed six months after our diagnosis.”
“The Irish Republic's Health and Safety Executive said in a statement that a review was undertaken after the incident, and a number of measures have been put in place at the hospital as a result.”
“A £3m centre has opened in Cornwall to treat patients with sexually transmitted infections (STIs).”
“one in 12 people under the age of 25 in Cornwall with chlamydia”
