The national bowel cancer audit has revealed improvements in patient care but large regional differences in treatment.
Mortality for surgery has consistently improved but the percentage of patients undergoing major surgery requiring a colostomy bag ranged from 2.9 per cent to 66.7 per cent.
New HSJ analysis highlights the areas outside the main coronavirus hotspots — London, Birmingham and the Black Country — which have seen rapid growth in deaths in recent days.
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Coronavirus continues to dominate the lives of healthcare leaders and policymakers, as it does this week’s HSJ Health Check.
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Children may have died from non-coronavirus illnesses because they are not coming to hospital quickly enough, amid concerns NHS 111 may be giving flawed advice to stay away, according to senior paediatricians.
Trusts have been told to urgently reconfigure surgical cancer services into “covid-free hubs” to minimise the number of procedures being postponed.
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