Victoria Macdonald
Six million patients a year are turning up at hospital A&E units because they can’t get appointments with their GPs. Meanwhile, a study suggests a rise of 11 per cent in the number of unplanned visits to A&E over the last four years.
No doctor would argue they shouldn’t be more vigilant for common types of cancer. However some cancers are much harder to spot than others.
Victoria Macdonald
As part of its inquiry into safe discharge from hospitals, Healthwatch England is looking at how the NHS responds to cases of mothers suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Scientists believe they are in the early stages of developing a new way of predicting whether women are more likely to develop breast cancer.
Jimmy Savile subjected hospital patients to “truly awful” sexual abuse for more than four decades, a series of chilling reports reveals.
The NHS is being ‘privatised by stealth’, say some who are critical of its services being outsourced. Comedian Rufus Hound, a candidate for the National Health Action Party, voices his concerns.
Nurses vote overwhelmingly against charging patients a fee for appointments with their family doctor. Do you think you should pay to see a GP, if it saves the NHS money? Vote in our poll.
Victoria Macdonald
A Channel 4 News investigation has found that parents whose babies die at birth, or shortly after, are being denied inquests to find out what happened.
Victoria Macdonald
The researcher and author, Roger Kline, recently published a report he called The Snowy White Peaks of the NHS – It could not have been more apt a title.
A further three cases of blood poisoning in babies are identified by authorities, as the nine-day-old baby who died from a suspected contaminated IV drip is named.
A baby dies from blood poisoning after being put on a drip containing a contaminated substance and 14 other babies are being treated with antibiotics after falling ill at NHS hospitals.
Simon Stevens, the new of NHS England, says the health service needs to expand local services and that too many people are being robbed of “dignity and compassion” due to a lack of local care.
Around three-quarters of us are overweight or obese. The government health watchdog says slimming classes can help and it is time to drop the “for goodness sake pull yourself together” attitude.
Given 60 days to find a donor for a life-saving stem cell transplant after her husband-to-be Mike Brandon was diagnosed with leukaemia, Kate Robertson’s viral online campaign succeeds within a month.
Victoria Macdonald
Wrists have been slapped today by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – otherwise known as NICE.