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Plan to boost jobs for newly qualified nurses and midwives
New measures to make it easier for NHS employers in England to take on newly qualified nurses and midwives have been announced by the government. The move comes after warnings there are up to three times more graduates than vacancies in some areas of the health service. The aim is to free up trusts in…
Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again
Fergus WalshMedical editor Sheila Irvine, who is registered blind, punches the air with joy at being able to read again A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye. A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital…
Woman speaks of unbearable pain of living with endometriosis
Ami Clarke, 28, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, began experiencing endometriosis symptoms at 13 but was not diagnosed until a decade later. A new report from Endometriosis UK revealed the average wait for a diagnosis for the condition was now nine years and four months. It also found that 39% of respondents had to visit their…
