Patients recovering from surgery get infections far more often than is being reported, according to a new study led by De Montfort University in Leicester.
Infection prevention specialists are now calling on the Department of Health to bring in a system so hospitals can identify the true scale of surgical infections.
A man who's lost sixteen stone is to run his first half-marathon today to raise money for a hospital that he says helped change his life.
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Asad Begg, from Birmingham, weighed 27 stone but after losing more than half his weight he's raising money for charity.
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A hospital in Birmingham will become the first in the West Midlands to use a newly-designed implant for spinal deformity.
Patients currently undergo a long and complex surgery.
But new, much simpler technology being used at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital means they can be treated as out-patients.
