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Apr 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Alison Benjamin
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Alison Benjamin
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Alison Benjamin
I took up urban beekeeping more than a decade ago with the best intentions. I wanted to help to save bees from the many threats they faced in the countryside – themodern farming practices that douses crops in toxic pesticides and robs bees of . My small back garden filled with bee-friendly flowers seemed like a paradise in comparison. But what I didn’t know was that by keeping bees I would only be helping one species of bee – the domesticated honeybee, which – and possibly harming others.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Alison Benjamin
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Alison Benjamin
Honeybees turn nectar into honey. Plenty of other insects drink the sweet energy drink produced by flowers to fuel their flight, but no other stockpiles a concentrated version of it to see it through the winter. And we’ve prized this natural sweetener for thousands of years for both its culinary and medicinal qualities. Honeybees also secrete wax from a gland to construct their honeycomb home of hexagonal wax cells. And we’ve harvested it for centuries to make candles and seal documents.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
newsfounded.com | Jim Reed |Harriet Agerholm |Alison Benjamin
In a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care in England said it was aware of each PFD report. “Our £1bn urgent and emergency care plan sets out a clear vision for how we work to reduce waiting times,” a spokesman said, along with a £2.4bn plan to ” train, retain and reform” the NHS workforce.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
homeofscience.net | Shazir Mucklai |Jim Reed |Harriet Agerholm |Alison Benjamin
A BBC investigation finds 109 warning letters last year highlighted NHS waits or resource pressures. Image source, Christine HuiCoroners in England and Wales sent 109 warning letters to the government and health bodies in 2023 highlighting long NHS waits, staff shortages or a lack of NHS resources, the BBC has found. The number of cases identified that were linked to NHS pressures was the highest in the past six years.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jim Reed |Harriet Agerholm |Alison Benjamin
Coroners in England and Wales sent 109 warning letters to the government and health bodies in 2023 highlighting long NHS waits, staff shortages or a lack of NHS resources, the BBC has found. The number of cases identified that were linked to NHS pressures was the highest in the past six years. Prevention of future death reports (PFDs) are sent when a coroner thinks action is needed to protect lives. The government says it "responds to, and learns from, every report".
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk | Catherine Burns |Laura Foster |Alison Benjamin |Amber Thornton
In comparison, the overall NHS workforce has increased by 34%. The country has a shortage of about 2,500 midwives, and maternity units are struggling with safety concerns. BBC research has also found that some trusts have more than one in five midwife jobs unfilled. The Royal College of Midwives says staffing is the "most important issue" and the gap needs to close. Maternity units are places where miracles can happen every day.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Catherine Burns |Laura Foster |Alison Benjamin
A former midwife has told the BBC she quit because she could not live with herself if she provided poor care. Hannah Williams says staff shortages meant she kept patients safe, but sometimes only "by the skin of her teeth". BBC Verify analysis shows that the number of full-time equivalent midwife posts in England has gone up by 7% in the last decade. In comparison, the overall NHS workforce has increased by 34%.
