Standing by IVF and HRT?
Victoria Macdonald writes on the funding of IVF and a recent paper on Hormone Replacement Therapy.
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Victoria Macdonald writes on the funding of IVF and a recent paper on Hormone Replacement Therapy.
The health regulator wants to raise the age limit for women receiving IVF – but patients’ groups tell Channel 4 News it will have no impact while a postcode lottery for treatment remains.
After just weeks in the job, Richard Grenell suddenly resigns as Mitt Romney’s foreign affairs spokesman – after a backlash from social conservatives about his sexuality.
An international drugs giant is taking legal action against four NHS trusts over their use of a cheaper, but “riskier” alternative treatment for a serious eye disease.
A Channel 4 News investigation has discovered doctors who have carried on working despite being suspended or having restrictions placed on their practices by the General Medical Council (GMC).
In 1996, Stuart Green, now 47, was working as a locum GP in Camberwell Green surgery in south London. Unknown to his colleagues, he had developed an addiction to heroin.
Speaking to Channel 4 News John Ashton, one of Cumbria’s top doctors, demands a government apology after being summoned to explain himself to local NHS chiefs for criticising planned health reforms.
One Primary Care Trust spent more than £14,600 last year on staff motivation events, including an awards ceremony, executive away days and a Christmas dinner, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Should dying cancer patients be spared “futile” and expensive treatment which can offer “false hope”? Channel 4 News hears from cancer experts, a charity and a patient.
A report claims treatments are being delayed so patients leave waiting lists by going private or dying, as Channel 4 News hears the system is “a game”.
More than 70 per cent of NHS trusts are ignoring guidance to offer infertile couples three chances at IVF and some have stopped funding the pregnancy treatment altogether, a damning report claims.
As politicians clash over the future of the NHS reforms, Dr Richard Withers – the chair of one of the first GP consortia to be set up – explains how it’s working out and how it can be a success.
The man behind the now famous “Andrew Lansley rap” sets his rhyming talents upon the Royal Wedding with a track recorded and written exclusively for Channel 4 News.
“Services do not need to close; that always has been and remains a political decision,” writes health expert Professor Allyson Pollock for Channel 4 News.
When the government announced their “pause for reflection” on reorganising the NHS it seemed pretty obvious they were not intending to fundamentally change the plan. If the idea was to take the sting out of the story it may end up doing the opposite.