Mum and baby taking part in Covid research to help create a paediatric vaccine A POOLE mother has thanked the maternity unit at Poole Hospital for saving the lives of her and her baby daughter after contracting coronavirus during the latter stages of her pregnancy. Rachel Murphy from West Moors was in danger of losing her unborn child after being hospitalised with Covid-19 in February while she was 32 weeks pregnant. Following a visit to the maternity unit at Poole Hospital on February 6, her condition worsened over the weekend and was admitted A&E.
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ENTERTAINMENT venues that have closed to the public tend to be gone for good. So the plan to reopen Bournemouth’s Palace Court Theatre – also known as the Playhouse – constitutes a dramatic comeback. It is 35 years since a lack of public support seemed to have brought down the curtain on the building s days as a theatre and cinema. It became a place of worship, over the objections of Bournemouth council and many supporters. Now Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) has acquired the venue – a neighbour of Bournemouth’s Premier Inn on Hinton Road and Westover Road. It plans to restore the 1930s art deco building as a teaching space with performance venue, complete with 400-seat auditorium that will welcome the public as well as students.
A HOSPICE carer who used a dying man’s bank card for a spending spree has been jailed for her “systematic and wicked” crime. Lynn Hopkin, 54, stole £17,241.60 from Robin Clark as she went about using his money to fund a variety of purchases, including holidays. A Bournemouth Crown Court hearing on Friday, April 30, was told Hopkin carried out 101 transactions on the card. This offending started days after Mr Clark was transferred to Forest Holme hospice from hospital in summer 2019. The spending continued over several weeks, and was discovered when one of his executors visited a cashpoint after his death to find his bank account had been “drained of every last penny”.
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A concise training programme aimed at informing healthcare staff about diabetes has the potential to significantly improve patient safety, according to researchers.
The programme, which was developed by the North West London Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups, has been linked with a reduction in diabetes-related errors.
“Diabetes 10 Point Training is translatable across all healthcare settings”
Study authors
The Diabetes 10 Point Training Programme was initially created with the aim of improving inpatient safety by ensuring frontline staff have access to diabetes training.
Researchers from the CCG collaboration noted that the annual National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) had made for “grim reading with errors, harm, increased length of stay and mortality”.