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Management of ascites in patients with liver disease
Ascites is a distressing symptom and is often indicative of decompensated liver cirrhosis, so it requires careful management and empathetic care. This article comes with a self-assessment enabling you to test your knowledge after reading it
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Exclusive: Former NHS nurses want forced adoption apology
“This wasn’t a Magdalene Laundry, this was an NHS hospital with nurses in uniform,” reflects a former nurse and MP who is fighting for answers five decades after her baby was forcibly adopted.
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Management of ascites in patients with liver disease
Ascites is a distressing symptom and is often indicative of decompensated liver cirrhosis, so it requires careful management and empathetic care. This article comes with a self-assessment enabling you to test your knowledge after reading it
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Improving mental health care for people with learning disabilities
Student NT editor Rebecca Hammond asks how we can provide mental health support to people with learning disabilities.
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The government must look beyond short-term solutions to workforce challenges
As the NHS continues to face workforce challenges, the attention this week has focused on how the recruitment of people from outside of the UK might look after the UK’s departure from the European Union.
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Is the Mental Capacity Act fulfilling its aims?
The Mental Capacity Act was introduced 10 years ago to ensure capacity to make decisions is properly assessed and those lacking it are well cared for. Is it working?