#welsh-healthcare

#welsh-healthcare

The Forest of Dean could soon get its first drive through KFC, but Gloucestershire Live reported some residents were concerned it could "blight the area's beauty".

Wales has a beautiful roughness to it. Its beauty is not immediate and hard-won; visitors will have to trek, drive and withstand the rain in order to find it. But it's worth every step of the journey.

My mother tells me not to be afraid, that 'what [you] fear will come upon [you].' She is quoting from the book of Job, the Bible's most famous theodicy.

Fifty government-funded mobile mast upgrades have now been activated across Wales as part of the UK's Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, marking a significant milestone in efforts to improve digital connectivity in some of the country's most remote communities. Across the UK, a total of 119 masts funded through the initiative are now live, helping to extend coverage to towns, villages, national parks and major road routes that previously experienced patchy service.

Rapid-access clinics are under pressure, with one hospital able to see only one in four patients last year within the 10-day target for breast cancer assessments.

A child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness: dodgy hearts, painful joints, an inability to get about. Our healthy life expectancy has been dropping for years; it is now the lowest since 2011, when records began.

Nearly 90% of the land in the United States is rural and about one in five people, or some 60 million, live throughout it according to the U.S. Census.

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Thirty-six per cent of UK doctors and 24% of nurses and midwives were trained elsewhere in the world. The number of visas granted to healthcare professionals has fallen sharply in recent years. But overseas staff would be needed for the foreseeable future, the APPG said.

Following an emotional debate, Wales' parliament gave its consent to Westminster legislation that would allow terminally ill people to obtain a medically assisted death. The landmark bill, which is currently in the House of Lords, would legalise the practice across England and Wales if passed. The vote in Cardiff Bay was needed because the backbench law gives powers to the Welsh government to set rules for assisted dying services if it wishes to.

It concludes that there will be one additional death for every 69 patients who experience more than a four-hour wait in ED after the decision to admit has been made. This is consistent with previous studies. It's appalling in and of itself. Crucially, the study also demonstrated that for every four hours a person waited for a bed, their length of stay, once they got into that bed, increased by 8.6 hours.