3 h. ago How Martha's rule which lets patients concerned about their treatment receive rapid second opinion is already saving lives as thousands call helpline in first nine months

Martha's rule, which lets families and patients concerned about their treatment seek a rapid second opinion from medical staff, is already saving lives.

Economics

13 h. ago Martha’s Rule must be rolled out to maternity care, urges mother of teenager who died of sepsis

Merope Mills says new rapid review service should be available to maternity services ‘to give women a greater voice’

Events

15 h. ago People food shopping this week told 'do not unpack groceries in kitchen'

People are being urged to take care where they leave their reusable plastic bags at home

Economics

21 h. ago Martha’s rule for second opinion rolled out to every acute hospital in England

Martha Mills developed sepsis while under the care of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in south London.

Politics

22 h. ago Martha’s rule now in operation at every acute hospital in England

System gives patients, their loved ones and NHS staff the right to request a care reviewMartha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care, is now in operation in every acute hospital in England, health service bosses disclosed on Thursday.The system has helped hundreds of people receive potentially life-saving improvements to their treatment since its rollout began last year. It has led directly to patients being moved to intensive care or receiving drugs they needed, such as antibiotics, or benefiting from other vital interventions. Continue reading...

Politics

46 h. ago Nursing and midwifery vacancies in NHS Scotland rise by 60 per cent in six months

‘Hugely troubling’ data as separate survey prompts calls for urgent action over ‘corridor care crisis’

Politics

64 h. ago Urgent action needed to make UK cancer care fair, charity warns

The charity said too many patients feel they need to be "in the right place, at the right time" and called for "urgent action"

Events

3 d. ago Mother who catfished her teenage daughter and her boyfriend for months with horrific sexual and violent messages reveals why she did it

Kendra Licari from Michigan stalked and sent 'hundreds of thousands' of abusive and aggressive messages to her daughter Lauryn and Lauryn's boyfriend Owen, who were both 13 at the time.

Politics

3 d. ago ‘You’re the only port of call for 400 hospital patients, which is absurd’: Matthew Hutchinson on the perils of life as an NHS doctor

He’s a rheumatologist, a standup comedian – and now the author of a memoir. He talks about racism in healthcare, why Covid was the only time urgent care was properly staffed – and his beef with cardiologistsAre You Really the Doctor?, Matthew Hutchinson’s memoir of being a black doctor in the NHS, opens in A&E with a patient suffering from a thunderclap headache and taking time out from his excruciating pain to complain that Hutchinson is “very scruffy”. “I’m wearing scrubs, the pyjama-like, hospital-issue uniform – something pretty difficult to put your own personal flair on,” Hutchinson writes, concluding wearily that the guy must have been reacting to something else: “Skin, hair, or general vibe.” You couldn’t call it a microaggression, the patient’s assumption that, being black, Hutchinson was unlikely to be an expert. But this anecdote barely registers on the Geiger counter of bigotry in healthcare that Hutchinson writes about trenchantly and acerbically, from the prejudice...

Science

5 d. ago Bereaved family urges better care for ‘forgotten’ learning disabled people

The latest Learning from lives and deaths report (LeDeR), expected to show data for 2023, was due to be published in about November last year.

Politics

9 d. ago Giant monster jellyfish found on UK beach as swimmers urged to 'take care'

A gigantic jellyfish with tentacles that can stretch beyond 100ft has been found washed up on a beach in the UK, with swimmers being warned to steer clear

Politics

1 week ago 'Danger' warning issued on the coast as remnants of Hurricane Erin to hit Wales

The RNLI has urged people to take care with 'large waves' likely

Events

2 w. ago A shocking tragedy at sea. A mother seeking answers over her teenager's death. Revealed in a new book, a story that has haunting parallels with last year's Bayesian tragedy

She keeled over to one side, flooded with water and sank in just 45 seconds.

Events

2 w. ago Wes Streeting urged to clarify plans to fix Britain's social care crisis

Silver Voices, a non-profit which has over 10,000 members, warned a review of Britain's care service risked becoming a "farce" unless ministers outlined how it would work

Events

2 w. ago Consume Me, the highly personal game about feeling ‘stupid, fat and ugly’ in high school

Jenny Jiao Hsia’s award-winning coming-of-age tale is a charming look at a teen trying her best to stay on top of thingsIf you visited the V&A’s Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition in 2018, you may have played an interesting minigame collection, in which you fought wobbly physics to feed a girl named Jenny, using a Tetris-style board to achieve the perfect calorie amount, and then twisting her into pilates poses.Almost seven years later, the full version of Consume Me, which won this year’s Independent Games festival grand prize, is set for a September release. According to developer Jenny Jiao Hsia, the game has become a semiautobiographical tale about how she felt “stupid, fat and ugly” in high school. What started as a collection of minigames about Hsia’s struggles with dieting and disordered eating grew into a game that looks at the many facets of her life as a teenager, including her relationship with her mother – who appears accompanied by Persona-style boss battle music and al...

Politics

2 w. ago Sick Gazan children arrive in London for urgent medical care 'within weeks'

A Downing Street spokesperson said that exact numbers will ‘depend on clinical need and various factors’

Politics

2 w. ago I popped a pimple in the 'Triangle of Death' and ended up with a deadly infection

TikTok user Alisha Monaco tried to pop a cyst pimple just below her nose in an area known as the 'Triangle of Death,' but ended up in urgent care when it got infected.

Events

2 w. ago Teenager who murdered British mother in her Australian home has sentence REDUCED

The boy, who cannot be named as he was aged 17 at the time of the offences, fatally stabbed Emma Lovell in the heart after he broke into her family's house north of Brisbane about 11.30pm in 2022.

Events

3 w. ago Rachel de Thame urges people to take same care with finances as with gardens

Ms de Thame said fraudsters are an ‘invasive species’.

Politics

3 w. ago Palestinian children in urgent need of medical treatment land in Italy

Palestinian children who are in need of urgent medical care have been evacuated from Gaza to Italy.

Politics