Welcome to Cheshire Surgical Practice

• Mumps - is it the forgotten disease? Hippocrates described the classic signs centuries ago, so what else do we know about the ancient illness?
• Whorlton Hall: Ten arrested over abuse allegations Ten workers are held over the alleged mistreatment of hospital patients following a BBC investigation.
• 'Cancer screening should be as easy as booking a flight' Text reminders and after-work appointments are recommended in a report on improving cancer screening.
• Sinikiwe Kademaunga: 'Don't associate disability with poverty' Blogger Sinikiwe Kademaunga was born with a condition that stopped the growth of her limbs.
• Migraines: Calls for 'life changing' drug Aimovig on NHS in England The 'life-changing' injection has been approved for use in Scotland, but not yet in England.
• Alex Danson: England captain and Olympic champion on head injury recovery When Olympic champion Alex Danson hit her head on a wall while laughing, the "most challenging part" of her life began.
• Surgeons warn of serious hand injuries from dog leads and collars A Cornwall dog owner had the skin torn off her middle finger by a lead wound tightly round her hand.
• Mumps and measles cases in England prompt vaccine call There were 795 cases of mumps in the first three months of 2019, versus 1,031 in the whole of 2018.
• Whorlton Hall: Hospital abuse missed despite at least 100 official visits Inspectors, council staff and NHS officials went in twice week on average in the year before Panorama expose.
• Care minister Caroline Dinenage 'deeply sorry' over hospital abuse Caroline Dinenage MP calls treatment of vulnerable patients in NHS-funded hospital "appalling".
• Colluding drug firms 'cost the NHS millions of pounds' The competition regulator says that four drugs firms forced the price of an anti-nausea tablet up by 700%.
• The failings in learning disability services in six charts The government has missed a target of fewer inpatient beds for people with learning disabilities in England.

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