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Hospital visitors told to consider speaking to relatives via Skype
The families of patients at an NHS trust have been urged to consider speaking to them via the internet rather than making bedside visits.
11:25AM BST 22 Jul 2011
The scheme, being proposed by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, is intended to save money among relatives who receive travel expenses.
Mental health patients in Berkshire are due to be relocated from Ascot, Maidenhead and Slough to Reading.
Fewer hospital beds would mean £1bn more for dementia care, say MPs
Fewer hospital beds would mean £1bn more for dementia care, say MPs
One in 10 NHS hospital beds should be removed in order to free up an extra £1billion to help dementia sufferers, leading politicians say.
7:00AM BST 12 Jul 2011
MPs and peers say that up to a quarter of beds are taken up with people who have degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, even though it is costly for taxpayers as well as traumatic for patients.
Long hospital waits ‘on the increase’
It is unfair to leave people waiting so long if they are in pain.
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Under the NHS Constitution, patients have a right to be seen in 18 weeks.
But there are currently 236,155 on the waiting list who have waited longer than that – a rise of 8.5% in a year, according to official data. Nearly half have waited more than six months.
