42 h. ago NHS accused of ‘abject failure’ on ADHD as 550,000 await assessment in England

Campaigners say failings have ‘ruined lives’ after figures show up to 2.5m people in country could have conditionADHD campaigners have accused the NHS of presiding over a “widely failing system” as it emerged that as many as 2.5 million people in England could have the condition, with more than one in five waiting for an assessment.According to the first figures of their kind published by the health service, 3-4% of adults, and 5% of children and young people, in the country have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago British army veteran, 73, who spent three months fighting for his life after heart attack in Ethiopian desert is landed with £20,000 NHS bill

Steve Foreman, 73, was living and working on an oil rig in Ogaden, Ethiopia when he collapsed and had to be airlifted to the nearest hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

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3 d. ago Alert over popular type of contraception that could raise risk of brain tumours five

NHS data suggest there are around 10,000 prescriptions for medroxyprogesterone acetate - known under the brand name Depo Provera - issued every month in England.

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3 d. ago Woman born without ovaries willing to ‘break’ finances to become a mother

With no eggs available on the NHS, the couple face an £8,000 bill at a private clinic in Spain for a procedure which has no guarantee of success

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8 d. ago Scots woman who dedicated life to helping others dies suddenly after heart attack

Tallat Haq had been feeling unwell with suspected food poisoning for three days before she was rushed to hospital by her concerned younger brother, Niaz, last week.

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1 week ago Teacher left paralysed by brain bleed travels over 1,000 miles to recover after ‘nightmare’ NHS treatment

Anna Chithrakala, 45, says she tried to “escape” the NHS hospital she was in

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1 week ago Hundreds of lives could be lost each year due to ‘first aid fear’, charity warns

Many are hesitant to provide assistance during emergencies, new research shows

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1 week ago ‘First aid fear’ is costing hundreds of lives a year as people afraid to act, charity warns

Many are hesitant to provide assistance during emergencies, new research shows

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1 week ago NHS announces new change that will affect 400,000 GP surgery patients a year

GPs have been told to find undiagnosed victims of the infected blood scandal

Science

1 week ago Nurse stole £72,000 claiming he worked fake shifts at NHS mental health unit

Dean Armitage 'abused his position' after investigators determined he had not been present for nearly 200 night shifts he claimed at the height of the Covid pandemic

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2 w. ago NHS bosses who fail to cut waiting times to have their pay docked

NHS bosses could be paid £45,000 to move to struggling areas, while underperforming executives could have their pay cut by £15,000

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2 w. ago Bonuses and pay rises for NHS chiefs ‘reward not a right’, says Streeting

Failing NHS chiefs could have their salaries docked by up to £15,000 under ‘carrot and stick reforms’.

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3 w. ago Luke, I am an INTJ? Darth Vader would slice hurtful colleagues in half – not take them to an employment tribunal

An NHS worker received £28,989 after being compared to the Sith Lord because of a Star Wars-themed Myers Briggs test. But I’d rather be Darth than Obi-WanThis is undeniably a bad time to be Darth Vader. A few weeks ago, Tony Gilroy revealed that Vader would not be appearing in his Andor series, despite fans assuming that he would play a significant part in its climax. A few days ago, the White House shared an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a confusingly musclebound Sith Lord, subtly undermining Vader as the go-to Star Wars baddie. And now a woman has been awarded almost £30,000 for being compared to him.Yesterday, it was reported that NHS blood donation worker Lorna Rooke had received £28,989.61 from a Croydon tribunal after complaining that a colleague had taken a Star Wars-themed Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test on her behalf online, and then informed her that her results aligned with Darth Vader. This upset Rooke and made her feel so unpopular that she resigned...

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3 w. ago London NHS worker awarded £29,000 after being likened to Darth Vader

‘Darth Vader is a legendary villain of the Star Wars series, and being aligned with his personality is insulting,’ a judge found

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3 w. ago NHS worker compared to Star Wars villain Darth Vader by a co

Blood donation worker Lorna Rooke was made to feel 'unpopular' after her colleague Amanda Harber took a a personality quiz on her behalf and told staff she fell into the same category as the Dark Lord.

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s drift and Tory collapse: Reform fills a vacuum they created | Editorial

Faragism’s rise isn’t a surge of enthusiasm – it’s a symptom of exhaustion with two parties failing to offer vision, justice or renewalSir Keir Starmer promised change – and, in a way, he has delivered it. Gone are the days of bold, expansive pledges; in their place are cautious, measurable goals: 6,500 new teachers, 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week. Yet voters, oddly ungrateful, remain unmoved. Perhaps it is because these modest gains barely scratch the surface of national decline. The government has touched lives, just not in the ways it promised. Cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners and proposed reductions in disability benefits have landed with jarring force. Sir Keir’s managerial style may promise stability, but voters expected transformation. The result: disillusionment with a government delivering change – but not the change voters thought they had chosen.Labour’s poor local election showing could be shrugged off as low turnout in the shires. The party wo...

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3 w. ago John Swinney pledges 100,000 more GP appointments for Scots to reduce pressure on NHS

Anas Sarwar accused the SNP of having "nicked" the plan for more appointments from Labour.

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4 w. ago Daily pill approved for NHS that could help 1,000 people a year with painful 'invisible illness'

A "game-changer" pill for painful chronic condition endometriosis has been approved for use on the NHS

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