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“The average response time in Wales last year was eight minutes and 47 seconds, against a benchmark of eight minutes.”
“The Welsh Ambulance Service Trust said improvements had been made but more work was needed. The trust said the service recorded its best "all-Wales performance" in April, with 70% of emergency responses arriving within eight minutes.”
“The fastest responses last year were in London and the south east of England, with an average response time of six minutes and 22 seconds for category A emergency calls.”
“The service in Scotland only provided an average response time, which was seven minutes and 12 seconds in 2009.”
“The all-Wales performance against the eight-minute standard has steadily improved, reaching 65% of life-threatening emergencies in eight minutes during eight of the last 12 months.”
“In April this year we achieved our highest all-Wales performance ever of 70% of life-threatening calls within eight minutes.”
“It said: "In 2007 we introduced the five-year 'time to make a difference' modernisation programme to meet these challenges head on and improve our service to the people of Wales."”
“In 2007 we introduced the five-year 'time to make a difference' modernisation programme to meet these challenges head on and improve our service to the people of Wales.”
“Welsh Assembly Government-funded automatic vehicle locating system technology has improved the effectiveness of our response to life-threatening and serious emergencies...”
“These included fluctuating performance due to seasonal pressures, overworked staff and, while sickness levels had fallen, they were still too high.”
“The report said it had met six of them and made progress in the remaining six.”
“It had also increased the number of intensive care beds”
“and increased the number of theatres.”
“There is no question the trust has made significant progress, particularly in the way it works with University Hospitals Birmingham and in providing more staff some specialist services.”
“There is more to do in managing capacity and improving the way it prioritises children needing urgent surgery.”
“The hospital had previously been set 12 targets to meet.”
“The former chief executive resigned ahead of last year's report.”
“The HPA recommends that laser pointers generally available to the public should be restricted to less than 1 milliwatt as no such injuries have been reported at this power.”
“Two months later, his vision had improved but some retinal damage remained.”
“If misused and shone into a person's eyes, even for just a few seconds, the damage can be devastating," she said.”
“According to government figures, £200 per head more is spent on health in Scotland than in England.”
“The report comes as figures showed spending on Scotland's health service had doubled in the past decade.”
“Staffing levels north of the border are also about 30% higher than those in England.”
“Jenny Stewart, head of public sector for KPMG in Scotland, said: "We are now spending just short of £2,000 per head per year on the NHS in Scotland - some £212 to £267 per head more than in England."”
“The report was triggered after a recent Nuffield Trust report on the performance of the NHS across the UK which claimed that Scotland not only had the highest levels of poor health, health expenditure and staffing, but also had the lowest …”
“One in four people in the UK often works all day without taking a break, a survey suggests.”
“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…”
