2 h. ago Roy Gerards has been appointed Director of Hotel Operations at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills in Los Angeles

Roy Gerards has been appointed Director of Hotel Operations at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills in Los Angeles  Hospitality Net

Culture

4 h. ago Serena Lightner has been appointed General Manager at NoMad London

Serena Lightner has been appointed General Manager at NoMad London  Hospitality Net

Politics

7 h. ago Three people killed in horror bus and car crash near Heathrow Airport which left both vehicles on fire

Three more people have been rushed to hospital following the collision on Bedfont Road in Feltham, west London

Events

10 h. ago Retail and hospitality in London face extra £2bn in costs from this week

Lower business rates, higher minimum wages and National Insurance Contributions all pile on the pressure

Economics

12 h. ago India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer

Vast scheme aims to counter disinformation and increase awareness in country where low HPV vaccine take-up means many die from the preventable diseaseTens of thousands of doctors across India are being trained to promote the HPV vaccine, in a push to eliminate cervical cancer in the country.They will check with mothers attending medical appointments that they intend to vaccinate their daughters, and visit schools and community centres armed with facts and slideshows to counter vaccine disinformation. Continue reading...

Science

42 h. ago NHS challenges companies to give staff time off for lifesaving cancer checks

Outgoing NHS boss Amanda Pritchard said that ‘simple steps can save lives’.

Politics

51 h. ago Two men hospitalised and police officer injured in horror south London night bus stabbing

The violent altercation broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning

Events

54 h. ago ‘I would never be able to sing a song that a robot wrote’: Lucy Dacus on her new album’s themes of artistry and intimacy

As the indie singer-songwriter and Boygenius star releases her latest, highly personal solo record, she talks of her weariness of AI and digital art, the pressures of being in a public relationship, and her anger and fears in Trump’s USIn the shadow of a Hogarth painting, accompanied by guitar and violin, Lucy Dacus is singing about disappointment. The painting depicts Thomas Coram, founder of the Foundling Hospital in London’s Bloomsbury district. A shipbuilder by trade, he is portrayed in full baroque garb, a style usually reserved for the aristocracy. But amid the classical architecture and rich fabrics, he is shown as he was: the thread veins on his face, his feet not quite touching the ground. The setting is apt for Dacus’s disquisitions on life and love, and the ways they can exceed, or fall short of, the expectations we place upon them: the moments that feel exalted, idealised, as well as the times when reality intrudes on the fantasy.The Foundling Museum, the setting of toni...

Culture

59 h. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimoniesA child of 14 is forced to walk on to a stage and strip to her underwear. Tiny and mute beneath the stacked rows of medical students, she is paraded for their benefit by a consultant psychiatrist some 44 years her senior. It is 1966 – the peak of Swinging 60s’ hedonism, liberalism and youthful counterculture – but in a locked psychiatric ward in London’s Royal Waterloo hospital, unspeakable violations are being inflicted upon patients.The perpetrator-in-chief, William Sargant, is the subject of thriller writer Jon Stock’s first nonfiction book, The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal. One of the most notorious figures in British psychiatry, Sargant initially wished to be a physician. He pivoted to psychiatry after one of his earliest pieces of research met with a humiliating reception at the Royal College of Physicia...

Events

3 d. ago Frank Bruno too sick to collect boxing honour after falling ill on flight

The former heavyweight world champion was taken ill on a flight from London to Qatar earlier this month and has been in hospital ever since, missing out on a top boxing award

Politics

3 d. ago ‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug

In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are trying to piece together what happenedFrom the reinforced windows of ward five, high up in the Edwardian eaves of London’s Royal Waterloo hospital for children and women, a 14-year-old Celia Imrie used to stare down, hoping to spot her mother. “When I walk past that old, redbrick hospital building today, on my way to the Imax or the National Theatre,” says Imrie, who went on to become a successful actor, “I can see the window where I’d sit waiting for her and a deep chill passes through me.”Every day, thousands of commuters and tourists pass beneath the former hospital. Some might look up to admire the terracotta facade, with its ornate colonnades and glazed tile lettering, but few are aware of the medical horrors that took place in one small room on the top floor: the Sle...

Events

3 d. ago King Charles III Leaves London for the Weekend After Surprising Hospitalization

King Charles III Leaves London for the Weekend After Surprising Hospitalization  AOL

Politics

3 d. ago Inside the posh London hospital that has treated King Charles and Princess Kate

Inside the posh London hospital that has treated King Charles and Princess Kate  Express

Politics

4 d. ago Doctor who took months to get symptoms checked dies weeks after rare cancer diagnosis

A London lawyer and former RAF officer has penned a poignant account of her grief after her husband, a doctor, delayed seeking medical help for stomach pains and tragically died just weeks after a rare cancer diagnosis.

Science

4 d. ago Fit and healthy student, 22, who died from sepsis may have survived if medics had listened to the desperate pleas of his mother

William Hewes, 22, died with sepsis at Homerton hospital in east London in January 2023 within hours of his arrival. That is despite concerns from his doctor mother that he needed urgent care.

Events

5 d. ago Fit and healthy student, 22, who died from sepsis may have survived if medics had followed his doctor mother's desperate pleas

William Hewes, 22, died with sepsis at Homerton hospital in east London in January 2023 within hours of his arrival. That is despite concerns from his doctor mother that he needed urgent care.

Society

5 d. ago Coroner rules not possible to say if earlier treatment would have saved student

William Hewes, 22, died at Homerton University Hospital in January 2023 after suffering from sepsis.

Politics

5 d. ago Unclear whether delays in student’s sepsis care at London hospital led to death, coroner rules

Unclear whether delays in student’s sepsis care at London hospital led to death, coroner rules  The Guardian

Events

5 d. ago ITV This Morning guest Chris Stark makes brave admission after cancer diagnosis

Chris Stark has urged men to get themselves checked out after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer.

Events

6 d. ago Maternity unit at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead to close due to declining birth rate

Number of births in the area hospital covers has fallen by 14 per cent in the area in the past five years

Politics