6 h. ago Outcry as 80 per cent of NHS doctors admit they're now routinely treating patients in corridors, waiting rooms and toilets

The damning report from the Royal College of Physicians found patients were often stripped of their dignity and routinely had their safety compromised.

Science

65 h. ago Keir Starmer's 'follow the law' message over NHS Fife transgender doctor Beth Upton row

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has responded to questions over the tribunal hearing involving nurse Sandie Peggie and transgender doctor Beth Upton

Society

3 d. ago Toxic Town: Jodie Whittaker is absolutely flawless as she battles real

The hasty regeneration of Corby’s old steelworks poisoned a generation. Now the story of how it came to court is told in a harrowing, if slightly melodramatic, new Netflix seriesJack Thorne writes the kind of meaningful, worthwhile dramas that you definitely – no, honestly – do plan to watch but just maybe not tonight. Best Interests from 2023, about a distraught mother battling the NHS doctors who decide to allow her severely ill teenage daughter to die, was warm, miraculously funny, and as gripping as a thriller. It was also so traumatising that it could make the viewer feel as if they were in actual physical pain. Before that, there was The Accident, whose matter-of-fact title only hinted at the harrowing subject matter: the series covered the aftermath of a construction site explosion in Wales that killed eight children.Toxic Town (Thursday 27 February, Netflix) – Thorne’s new four-part series – could be considered a companion piece to The Accident: it also deals with a dea...

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4 d. ago ‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline

Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness“The frontline here is cold, hard, true war. My comrades and I had more than 40 bombs dropped on us by drones over two hours. You can’t hide from drones in a trench, but you can’t outrun them either. Your only hope to live is to zigzag, to be cleverer than the drone.”A gaunt 28-year-old former IT worker sits patiently beneath a window barricaded with sandbags, awaiting his turn on the operating table, cloaked in dust. Now an infantryman in the Ukrainian army’s Third Assault Brigade, “Sasha” (not his real name) has shrapnel embedded in his shoulder after the Russian assault on his foxhole. “When you hear a drone, you run as fast as you can and see if you can reach any trees,” he says. “If you’re out in the open, you try to get the drone behind you, so it won’t destroy your face. It’s not panic, this running; it’s a professional respons...

Politics

4 d. ago ITV Lorraine's Dr Amir Khan shares 'simple' and 'effective' way to prevent norovirus spreading

Norovirus cases have soared in England with hospitals treating record numbers of patients with the sickness bug

Politics

5 d. ago Scots patients would receive free treatment in England under plan to fix NHS backlog

The plan has been put forward by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar ahead of his party conference starting today.

Science

5 d. ago Patients could be sent to England or private hospitals for treatment under Labour

Scottish Labour says it will ‘rip up bureaucracy’ to reduce NHS waiting lists if they win the 2026 Holyrood election.

Science

6 d. ago Neil Gray 'has confidence in NHS Fife management' despite trans doctor row

The SNP Health Secretary refused to comment on nurse Sandie Peggie being called to a separate disciplinary hearing while her employment tribunal against the health board goes on.

Politics

7 d. ago Return of family doctors and appointments within 48 hours: How NHS can be so much better

As this winter’s paralysing flu outbreak illustrated, the SNP’s neglect of GPs’ surgeries has consequences for Scotland’s hospitals

Society

7 d. ago Anas Sarwar: Nurse Sandie Peggie should not face disciplinary action in NHS trans doctor Beth Upton row

‘I have always been clear that we must protect single-sex spaces based on biological sex’

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1 week ago 'We're just about coping': Inside a London hospital treating patients in corridors

'We're just about coping': Inside a London hospital treating patients in corridors  BBC.com

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