New unit to treat 'mini strokes'
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
A new unit is to open at West Suffolk Hospital to treat local patients who suffer "mini strokes".
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Children's hospital service under threat
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
INPATIENT services for children at West Suffolk Hospital could be scrapped under radical plans for an overhaul of maternity and paediatric services across the region.
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Robot to hand out prescriptions
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
PATIENTS queuing for medicines in west Suffolk will soon be served by a robot. The robot will be installed at West Suffolk Hospital's refurbished pharmacy once works there are complete.
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Bug-cutting hospital given boost
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
West Suffolk Hospital has been awarded a cash boost after cutting the number of MRSA infection cases.
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Officer delivers baby in back seat
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
A SUFFOLK Police Community Support Officer has turned midwife after helping to deliver a baby on the back seat of a car in Ixworth. David and Sarah Fitt, from East Harling in Norfolk, were on their way to the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds as Mrs Fitt had started to go into labour.
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More hospital wards shut amid outbreak
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
FURTHER wards have been shut at West Suffolk Hospital because of the winter vomiting virus. Anyone suffering from a possible norovirus infection was today urged to stay away from the Bury St Edmunds hospital after more patients have had symptoms of the illness.
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Vomiting virus hits two hospital wards
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
TWO medical wards at West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, have been closed to new admissions after several patients showed symptoms of a highly contagious diarrhoea and vomiting virus.
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Hospitals slashes visiting hours
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
A DECISION to cut four hours a day from visiting times at West Suffolk Hospital could make it “impossible” for some people to see loved ones, it was warned last night.
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Police search for missing patient ends
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A PATIENT who went missing from a Suffolk hospital has been found safe and well. Concern was growing for the welfare of George Penny after he walked out of the Wedgewood Unit on the West Suffolk Hospital site in Bury St Edmunds yesterday morning at 7.
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Man hurt in warehouse incident
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
A WORKER has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after some palettes fell on top of him in a warehouse. The incident in Norwich Road, Mendlesham, took place at about 1pm today and resulted in the 45-year-old being taken to West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.
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Hospital infections slashed at hospital
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
CASES of MRSA at a Suffolk hospital have been cut in half during the past year, figures reveal. In 2007/2008 there were 14 cases of MRSA at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds compared with 27 the previous year.
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Young mum in MRSA 'horror'
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
A YOUNG mother has spoken of her horror after she contracted a superbug infection that still threatens her newborn baby. Kelly Youngs contracted MRSA after giving birth to Gracie Leeks at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.
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Shock Discovery: Epileptics Have Seizures
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Doctor Bud Light, of West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, has made what is already being hailed as the medical discovery of the century.
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Death of a Murderer, By Rupert Thomson
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
Here we have a policeman's dark night of the soul. He is PC Billy Tyler, and the night is that of 19 November 2002, before the day of Myra Hindley's funeral. He has been assigned to stand guard over her body, which is locked away in the mortuary of West Suffolk Hospital. Outwardly, it is an entirely uneventful night for Billy, who is a practical fellow and not inclined, unlike many people, his distraught...
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Maternity services best in region
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
MORE than £1million will be shaved off a Suffolk health trust's insurance bill after its maternity services were judged the best in the region. The maternity unit at West Suffolk Hospital has been inspected by the NHS Litigation Authority and found to be the only one in the east of England to reach the highest standards in terms of safety and quality of care.
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