“The hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronically affects up to 150 million people worldwide. In the UK, an estimated0.5% of the populated are affected. If left untreated, the virus can lead to severe liver damage and sometimes liver cancer. In 2014, two drugs were approved that offer a more than 90% cure rate for HCV; However, the NHS this…
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The “weekend effect” might not be a real effect at all…
The ‘weekend effect’ overshadows a much more complex pattern of weekly changes in quality of care, which are unlikely to be addressed by simply increasing the availability of hospital doctors on Saturdays and Sundays Read my Canary article, “New studies show dubious link between the ‘weekend effect’ and hospital staffing” for more information about these…
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