Burns victims lottery: adequate treatment centres for burns victims in the UK are few and far between.(News Feature)

From: Chemistry and Industry | Date: September 5, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Burn yourself in the UK and where you live will determine how well you are treated and possibly how badly you are scarred for the rest of your life. Burns care has been the 'Cinderella' of the NHS for many years, and has not attracted much public funding, Outdated treatments in some centres and a lack of national standards mean that many burns survivors in the UK are not getting adequate care, and in some cases, are treated by staff with no specialist training. The National Burns Care Group (NBCG) was set up in March 2003 to develop solutions to some of these problems, but ...

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