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Communication issues (32%)
Face covering policy (27%)
While some complaints relate directly to the treatment of COVID-19, such as a failure to diagnose the virus, in many cases, complaints are about the way care for other conditions was delivered due to the necessary changes during the pandemic.
For example, that telephone consultations for COVID-19 symptoms underestimated how ill patients were or that advice to self-isolate rather than be admitted led to a delay in necessary treatment.
Despite GPs instrumental role in the success of the vaccine programme, there have been complaints about delays in receiving the first or second doses of vaccine or queries about capacity for patients to receive a vaccine.
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Former nurse died after being wrongly sent home by Devon hospital
Norma Saunders died as a result of a perforated bowel
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Norma and Terrence Saunders
A heartbroken widower says he is finally able to honour his wife s memory after a Devon hospital admitted she died after she was allowed to return home instead of being urgently referred for surgery.
Norma Saunders, of Ivybridge, was taken by ambulance to Plymouth s Derriford Hospital after experiencing eight days of abdominal pain during which she had contacted GPs for advice four times.
Following an X-ray, the result of which should have been classed as abnormal, she was sent home.
Women have been left unprotected because courts cannot attach powers of arrest to non-molestation orders
Karen Ingala Smith, co-creator of the Femicide Census, which analyses the deaths of women at the hands of men. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer
Karen Ingala Smith, co-creator of the Femicide Census, which analyses the deaths of women at the hands of men. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer
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A simple change in the law to reduce domestic killings – half happening around separation – would be to let family courts attach powers of arrest again to non-molestation orders (“We’ve ignored the grim toll of femicide for too long,” Editorial). A misguided criminal law prevented judges from attaching these when breach of such orders became a criminal offence in 2007.