Victoria Macdonald
NHS asks Nice to delay ground-breaking hepatitis C drug
It’s a drug that cures hepatitis C in 90 per cent of cases – but a 12-week course costs £35,000. And now NHS England is worried that it’s too expensive.
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Ten Walls dropped from festivals after anti-gay rant
The Walking with Elephants producer has been dropped from Pitch, Sonar and Creamfields after comments comparing gay people to paedophiles.
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FactCheck: has the mental health budget been cut?
Ministers insist the government has not cut spending on mental health services. So where is the evidence?
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No guarantee another Shipman couldn’t happen again
Before he was arrested in 1998, GP Harold Shipman was able to kill 215 people, yet changes recommended to stop this ever happening again are still not in force. Critics say the delay is “apalling”.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Gaza’s enduring echoes from world war one
Nearly a century ago, British soldiers invaded Gaza to push out the Turks. Paul Mason pays a visit to what was to be the final resting place for some.
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UK-born student kills six in California rampage
Elliot Rodger, 22, killed six people in a California college town after posting a threatening video on YouTube railing against his rejection by women.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS forced into emergency action to fund ‘game-changing’ Hep C drug
The NHS is having to introduce an emergency fund for a new hepatits C drug after delays in getting the treatment to seriously ill patients.
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CQC cover-up scandal: ‘It couldn’t be any worse’
The father of baby Joshua Titcombe, who died in hospital, tells Channel 4 News he felt physically sick on learning that Cynthia Bower ordered the CQC failings cover-up and calls for a wider inquiry.
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Gun control: What can America learn from Britain?
US conservatives are digging in amid calls for tighter gun laws, with some even claiming Britain is more dangerous than America, despite the lack of firearms here. FactCheck investigates.
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Victoria Macdonald
Dystonia U-turn by NHS primary care trust
Victoria Macdonald revisits a man with dystonia whose life has been transformed by deep brain stimulation therapy that his primary care trust had initially refused to provide.
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FactCheck: Should quango claims go on the bonfire?
Existing health quangos Monitor and the Care Quality Commission, expanded under the Lansley reforms, have seen staff costs rise by £28m in the last year alone.
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Will cutting children’s heart surgery units improve care?
Three hospitals in Leicester, Leeds and London are to stop performing heart surgery on children. Channel 4 News looks at what impact the closures could have.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS treatments: what would you prioritise?
There is nothing new about treatments being rationed in the NHS, but if you had to decide, what would you prioritise, asks Victoria Macdonald.
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Revealed: postcode lottery for dystonia treatment
Exclusive: an East Midlands patient has repeatedly been refused brain stimulation treatment for dystonia, a debilitating twitching disorder, despite it being available almost everywhere else.
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Doctors vote for industrial action over pensions
Doctors will take industrial action on June 21 in the bitter row over the Government’s controversial pension reforms.
