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.
A former acute trust chief executive who faced fraud charges killed himself, an inquest has heard.
A teaching hospital is considering closing its urology service to out of area referrals, as it struggles to deal with a backlog of cases.
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A major London teaching trust has had its suspension of a senior cardiac surgeon challenged in the High Court.
“Unsustainable” spinal services are set to be transferred from a cash strapped acute provider to its tertiary neighbour after three years of uncertainty.
Hospitals must urgently increase the number of day case procedures being carried out to help stem the growing waiting list, Simon Stevens has said.
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