6 h. ago How profit hungry firms could affect the care you're given by doctors and chemists: JOHN NAISH

Drug companies have been funding the installation of electronic diagnostic machines in pharmacies up and down the country to detect patients who have hidden atrial fibrillation.

Economics

3 d. ago Fact check: How much do resident doctors earn, and what do they want?

With resident doctors in England being balloted over possible strike action, Full Fact looks at what resident (formerly ‘junior’) doctors earn.

Politics

1 week ago 'I'm a doctor and death will come soon if you spot this symptom'

Dr Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care doctor, has called for society to break the taboo around death and says that dying is a 'natural process' that can be 'reclaimed'

Science

2 w. ago Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

Politics

2 w. ago No disciplinary sanction for doctor’s ‘grave’ failures in care of Martha Mills

Professor Richard Thompson did not refer the 13-year-old to intensive care despite her displaying several high-risk indicators of sepsis.

Events

3 w. ago Senior doctor’s failures in teenager’s care at London hospital ‘amounted to gross negligence’

A medical tribunal found that Professor Richard Thompson’s failures in the care of Martha Mills were ‘particularly grave’

Events

3 w. ago People with cancer face ‘ticking timebomb’ due to NHS staff shortages

Royal College of Radiologists warns of long delays to have surgery or treatment, raising chances of disease spreadingPeople with cancer face a “ticking timebomb” of delays in getting diagnosed and treated because the NHS is too short-staffed to provide prompt care, senior doctors have warned.An NHS-wide shortage of radiologists and oncologists means patients are enduring long waits to have surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy and have a consultant review their care.“Our waiting times for breast radiotherapy are now the worst I have ever known in 20 years.”“Current wait for head and neck cancers [is] six weeks, meaning possible progression before radiotherapy.”“A multiple week wait for palliative treatment has sometimes led to deterioration to the point is no longer possible.” Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Cricket star Steve James' 'beautiful' daughter, 21, was 'dismissed' by doctors several times before she died in hospital as mother blasts 'appalling care'

Bethan James, 21, daughter of ex-Glamorgan star Steve James, passed away just a day after being admitted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff on February 9, 2020.

Events