Background Hospital readmissions are an important quality of care indicator and are tied to hospitals’ financial reimbursements. Safety-net hospitals, which serve a high proportion of patients of low ...

As artificial intelligence rapidly gains prominence and sophistication, health care professionals in Rhode Island have been ...

trial (NCT03735979), a consent process was designed in collaboration with patient advisors that included a short consent form and a companion information sheet. This approach was implemented at all ...

New data published today shows that 784 patients a day were in hospital with norovirus last week (week ending 19 January 2025), up from 650 the previous week. Levels ...

Patients on trolleys lined up head to toe are the “new normal” in casualty, says a top doctor. We were given exclusive access to the front line days after a survey of 5,000 nursing staff ...

Credit: X A doctor who worked in Guernsey for three years has admitted to removing the ovaries of two patients at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital without their consent. 'Patient C' received the ...

In section D of the medical certificate, you must indicate the patient’s capacity for consent because the patient must sign the authorization form if they're able to do so. If the patient is unable to ...

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, while sick people are being left to soil themselves, according to a damning report into the state of the NHS. The Royal ...

Tearful nurses told an RCN briefing in central London of being powerless as patients spend hours slowly dying on a trolley in a busy corridor and finding a dead patient under a pile of coats.

Patients are dying in corridors and pregnant women are miscarrying in side rooms as overwhelmed hospitals struggle to cope, nurses say. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence provided by ...