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Corporate media still seems to be obsessed with exaggerated rioting and looting.

UK RIOTS 2011: Manchester and Midlands burn but London is ‘under control’ | Mail Online

In Bristol there were 19 arrests for offences, including having a balaclava in your possession.

A recent news article about the UK’s Conservative and Liberal-Democrat coalition government – the ConDem’s – brutal attack on the National Health Service.

BBC News – Call for more maternity doctors

The NHS needs more specialist maternity doctors to prevent mothers dying due to “substandard care”, experts have said.

An editorial in the British Medical Journal written by six obstetricians says most maternal deaths are now caused by treatable medical conditions.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says too few doctors means warning signs can be missed.

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Increasing numbers of women with often complex medical conditions are now becoming pregnant or seeking fertility advice. And with more women delaying starting a family, doctors are now seeing more older women with complicated pregnancies.

The latest review of UK maternity services – the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths report – found that although the overall maternal death rate has been declining, there has been an increase in maternal deaths associated with existing medical conditions, like diabetes, epilepsy, asthma or heart failure.

And many of these are linked with substandard care, meaning more could have been done by healthcare professionals.

In a third of these cases, different care might have actually prevented the death of the mother.

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A recent news article about the UK’s Conservative and Liberal-Democrat coalition government – the ConDem’s – brutal attack on the National Health Service.

Hundreds of NHS jobs in Sussex to be axed (From The Argus)

Hundreds of jobs are to be axed by health bosses over the next five years.

NHS trusts across the county are battling to save millions of pounds while facing one of the biggest shake-ups in the organisation’s history.

Managers say they are unable to rule out redundancies although they are hoping to make savings by cutting back on expensive agency staff and not filling vacant posts.

Unions believe the cuts are just the tip of the iceberg.

The Sussex Community NHS Trust has revealed it wants to reduce its staff numbers by 10% – the equivalent of about 430 positions, by 2015.

The trust runs specialist community and rehabilitation services for adults and children across Brighton and Hove and West Sussex.

Its work covers district nurses, podiatrists, nurses specialising in skin problems like eczema and support for stroke patients.

The losses could affect different parts of the trust but it is hoped they will be covered through not filling vacancies, retirements, staff moving on to other jobs and cutting back on agency and staff spending.

The changes are down to the way the trust plans to provide services in the future while it tackles the same financial pressures as the rest of the NHS.

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Worthing Hospital, Southlands in Shoreham and St Richard’s in Chichester, is also planning to cut the amount it spends on staff this year by the equivalent of 128 posts.

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Sussex in Brighton and the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath, maintains it has no plans to reduce positions, despite having to save £21 million this year.

The hospital trust has called in an independent financial expert at a cost of £143,000 in an effort to get its spending under control.

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs Eastbourne District General Hospital and the Conquest in St Leonards, is working with accountants Ernst and Young to try to clear a £6 million deficit and has not ruled out the possibility of job losses in the future.

More than 170 jobs have already been lost at the county’s primary care trusts ahead of their planned axing in two years time as part of the government’s shake up of the NHS.