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Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2026
Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2026 The number of people going to emergency departments each day, with results published every week under the syndromic surveillance system. The Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System (EDSSS) monitors the patient attendances each day, and what symptoms patients have, in a network of emergency departments across England and Northern Ireland. Weekly bulletins are also available for: Updates to this page - Added week 22 bulletin.
Teen's 5-day wait in hospital emergency department prompts official apologies
Authorities 'deeply sorry' for teenager let down by WA's mental health system Wed 3 Jun 2026 at 1:21pm In short: A teenager from WA's South West was left in a hospital emergency department for almost five days waiting for a mental health bed. After 116 hours, the 17-year-old was transferred to a hospital 300km away. WA's health minister and director of its country health service both apologised to the Busselton family.
Why Do Self-Harm Prediction Models Struggle to Generalise? Lexical and Semantic Variations in Emergency Department Triage Notes
arXiv:2606.01678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-harm presentations to emergency departments (EDs) are strongly associated with higher suicide risk. NLP models have shown robust performance in detecting self-harm from triage notes within single hospitals, yet performance often declines across institutions. To examine potential causes, we compare ED triage notes from two hospitals by analyzing lexical characteristics, highly associated predictive features, and salient topics.
Transferable Self-Harm Surveillance from Emergency Department Triage Notes Using an Evidence-Augmented Machine Learning Approach
arXiv:2606.02545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-harm is a major public health concern, but current surveillance relying on hospital presentations is inadequate due to the low sensitivity of diagnostic codes. Emergency Department (ED) triage notes, recorded at the initial point of contact, provide a succinct summary of presentations and an opportunity to identify self-harm. We developed a three-stage approach, augmenting traditional machine learning with large language model-based...
Emergency clean-up ordered at Queensland waste business
Emergency clean-up ordered at Biloela's Essential Spill Wed 10 Jun 2026 at 8:09am In short: The Department of Environment has been issuing clean-up notices and fines to Essential Spill in Biloela since 2022. An inspection in March found exposed waste materials and oily water leaking into stormwater drains. The department has carried out emergency stabilisation works and is now seeking costs.
Sam went to the ED needing treatment. His parents were asked about his quality of life
People with intellectual disability continue to receive substandard healthcare as programme to train doctors risks closure Wed 3 Jun 2026 at 4:31pm The day Sam Stubbs decided he was so unwell he needed to go to hospital was the day before he was due to do a triathlon. And right up until the point that his parents, Chris and Debra, took him to their local emergency department, he was insisting he could still race the next day. The 27-year-old trains several times a week, plays for his local...
North Canberra Hospital to cost $1.5b, will be ready in 2031
New North Canberra Hospital details unveiled as $1.34 billion commited to redevelopment Tue 2 Jun 2026 at 12:19pm In short: The ACT government has committed $1.34 billion over seven years to the North Canberra Hospital, taking the project's total cost to around $1.5 billion. Stage one of the redevelopment includes a seven-storey clinical services building which will house a "state-of-the-art" emergency department, eight operating theatres, more than 200 in-patient beds, and a birth centre....
Watch: Massive fire guts 13 shops in J&K's Poonch, engulfs Bufliaz Central Market
Thirteen shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday, officials said. The blaze erupted around 5 am in Bufliaz Central Market along the Mughal Road, rapidly spreading through a row of mostly wooden and tin-roofed shops, PTI reported. Local residents, assisted by Army and CRPF personnel, launched firefighting efforts before teams from the Fire and Emergency Services Department reached the spot.
‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds
Sharp rise in hospital visits will in turn drive up annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to over $1bnPeople in the US are poised to endure another summer of unusually ferocious heat and there will be little respite in the years ahead, with a new study finding that the coming 15 years could see a doubling in hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses. The number of annual heat-related emergency department visits or hospitalizations across the US are set to rise from about...
Fraudster nurse struck off from NHS after claiming £19k in fake shifts
Fraudster nurse struck off from NHS after claiming £19k in fake shifts Former nurse Faith Chareka added dozens of shifts she did not work to her rota, claiming almost £20,000 from Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey A nurse has been struck off for fraudulently claiming almost £20,000 for shifts she never worked. Faith Chareka, who worked in the emergency department for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, was convicted of fraud by abuse of position after adding 50 shifts...