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Junior doctors urged to ‘know their limits’ on Black Wednesday
Junior doctors have been urged to “know their limits” to prevent an expected rise in death rates as more than 6,000 medical graduates start their first hospital jobs.
Today has become known as “Black Wednesday” because mortality rates rise by an average of around six per cent when new trainees start work and other junior doctors swap specialties.
Studies have shown that patients admitted as an emergency on the first Wednesday in August – during the changeover – are six per cent more likely to die than on the previous Wednesday.
For those suffering heart attacks and strokes the figure is yet higher, with an 8 per cent increase in deaths.
Healthcare cannot be sold like an iPad
It is time to reject the market ideology that has plagued the NHS for more than 30 years and wasted billions
NHS England is embarking on its single biggest outsourcing of services so far by inviting bids for a contract that will be worth between £700m and £1.1bn. The sale of NHS services is fragmenting the health service and having a negative impact on patient experience.
Death rates show ‘mystery rise’
There has been an unexplained rise in the number of people dying in England and Wales, according to a report.
The document, seen by the Times newspaper and the Health Service Journal, reported 600 more people died each week last year than the average.
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