Replacements
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| First episode date | January 14, 2016 |
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| Cast | Elena Leeve |
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| ID | 2405654 |
About Replacements
The cost of the Ukraine war for one Russian regiment
... Mark Urban reports on how the Russian 331st Regiment, and their families, are coping with Vladimir Putin s long warEach time casualty Replacements - including the conscripts shown on TV in November - are brought in to replace losses, the original cadre of soldiers gets smaller, and the overall size of the unit diminishes...
Record revenue for staff agencies supplying NHS
... In England, trust leaders are allowed to pay a maximum of 155% of normal staff rates for any agency Replacements - unless paying more is the only way to maintain safe staffing levels There are also official NHS flexible staff banks which place health workers with employers who need to fill temporary gaps...
The patients who gave up waiting on the NHS
... Four in 10 people (43%) in Scotland said they would be likely to pay for private care if they required non-urgent treatment - such as hip or knee Replacements - and faced a long wait on the NHS...
NHS England boss: Repeated strikes make workload more challenging
... When the private sector is paid to do operations such as hip and knee Replacements - it generally costs the NHS the same as if it were done in an NHS hospital...
Two new drugs to fight superbugs available on NHS soon
... Without effective drugs to address superbugs, routine surgery - such as hip Replacements - will become too dangerous to perform, for example...
Fix NHS staffing crisis to tackle waiting lists backlog, warn MPs
... 8 million patients were waiting for surgery - such as hip or knee Replacements - with 300,000 waiting more than a year compared with just 1,600 before the pandemic...
General election 2019: Labour vows to outspend Tories on the NHS
... What would Labour s extra money pay for? In terms of the front-line budget, Labour says the extra £26bn in real terms by 2023-4 they will be investing will help reduce waiting times in A& E and for routine operations such as knee and hip Replacements - both targets for how long patients should wait have been missed for the last few years...
Thomas Cook customers in shock about the prices of flight tickets
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Two new drugs to fight superbugs available on NHS soon
Two new medications which fight drug-resistant superbugs could soon become available to NHS patients in England.
Drugs' watchdog NICE says cefiderocol and ceftazidime with avibactam offer value for money and Will save lives.
These 'last line of defence' drugs Will tackle severe infections which cannot be cleared by other treatments.
Under The Deal , a fixed annual fee Will be paid to manufacturers to cover their development costs, rather than individual payments for each dose.
The subscription-style payment model is part of the government's strategy to incentivise companies to make essential drugs Such as these, alongside the so-called blockbuster drugs which typically make huge profits for pharmaceutical giants.
Antimicrobial resistance is a major issue which threatens to set modern medicine back to the pre-antibiotic era.
Without effective drugs to address superbugs, routine Surgery - Such as hip Replacements - Will become too dangerous to perform, for example.
Some of the bacteria and other micro-organisms behind common, treatable diseases - including tuberculosis and gonorrhoea - have acquired The Ability to dodge medicines. Hard-to-treat infections already, researchers estimate.
The two new drugs, approved in draft guidelines from NICE, Will help patients with risky urinary tract infections, pneumonia and sepsis.
NHS commercial medicines director Blake Dark said: " This is an important step in our world-leading approach to incentivise innovation in antimicrobial drugs and The Battle against drug-resistant infections.
" The NHS Will now use its commercial power to secure deals that Will enable NHS patients to benefit from these treatments, delivering on its Long Term Plan commitment and paving The Way for a pipeline of future treatment options. "
Source of news: bbc.com
