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@Telegraph cites NHS officials saying,
"Cancer patients who decided not to seek treatment during lockdown are now overwhelming emergency units"
#CollateralGlobal thinks this is a mischaracterization of the backlog source...
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/3…
"Cancer patients who decided not to seek treatment during lockdown are now overwhelming emergency units"
#CollateralGlobal thinks this is a mischaracterization of the backlog source...
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/3…
The title of our research is,
"Review of the Impact of COVID-19 First Wave Restrictions on Cancer Care"
And while we do take a global perspective & local conditions varied, it is broadly accurate that *restrictions* caused these barriers to care...
collateralglobal.org/article/review…
"Review of the Impact of COVID-19 First Wave Restrictions on Cancer Care"
And while we do take a global perspective & local conditions varied, it is broadly accurate that *restrictions* caused these barriers to care...
collateralglobal.org/article/review…
"A second systematic review found 38 different categories of delays and/or disruptions that could impact treatment, diagnosis,
or health services"
In other words, it is grossly inaccurate to characterise this as simply a matter of people deciding they did not wish to seek care.
or health services"
In other words, it is grossly inaccurate to characterise this as simply a matter of people deciding they did not wish to seek care.
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illness, second only to opioid addiction. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Over the past 14 months, the rate of eating disorders requiring hospitalization among young people has skyrocketed...
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Over the past 14 months, the rate of eating disorders requiring hospitalization among young people has skyrocketed...
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In Bedfordshire, the number of NHS referrals for eating disorders increased from 90 to 220 - a 244% increase...
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bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
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bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
And in Oxford, the number of urgent referrals jumped fourfold - from 20% in 2019 to 80% in 2020.
This number of children waiting for treatment increased by 128%...
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theguardian.com/society/2021/f…
This number of children waiting for treatment increased by 128%...
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theguardian.com/society/2021/f…
