32 h. ago NHS launches review after more than 10,000 knee replacement patients were fitted with a potentially faulty implant that left many immobile and addicted to painkillers

The part failed up to six-times more often than would usually be expected, requiring corrective surgery costing £10,000 to £30,000 a time.

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3 w. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – the psychiatrist who abused female patients

This harrowing account of a British doctor and his shocking experiments on young women includes a testimony from the actor Celia Imrie, who was one of his patientsIn a hospital in Waterloo, London, in the mid-1960s was a psychiatric ward full of sleeping women. Suffering from disorders ranging from post-partum depression to chronic anxiety to anorexia, the residents of the “sleep room” were sedated and woken only to be washed, fed or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). All were under the supervision of psychiatrist William Sargant, who at the time was hailed as a pioneer. Sargant claimed that a combination of enforced narcosis and ECT could fix disturbed minds. Failing that, the treatment would be surgical lobotomy.The Sleep Room is author Jon Stock’s gripping account of a scandal in which female patients were denied dignity and agency by a man who wielded absolute power over their bodies. The book is ably narrated by actors Richard Armitage, Antonia Beamish and Celia Imri...

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4 w. ago Physician associates should ‘never be used to replace doctors’ – Streeting

Wes Streeting pledged to implement in full the findings of a review which said physician associates must not diagnose patients.

Politics

4 w. ago NHS 'must make it clear' when patients are NOT being treated by actual doctors

Government-commissioned review says physician associates should not diagnose patients after deaths linked to errors when patients thought they had seen a doctor

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4 w. ago Physician Associates should be banned from diagnosing untriaged patients, review says

Physician associates have been used as substitutes for doctors, despite having significantly less training.

Science

4 w. ago Six patient deaths linked to NHS using less qualified physician associates as substitute for doctors, government

Physician associates should be banned from seeing patients who have not been reviewed by a doctor to cut the risk of 'catastrophic' harm, a government-ordered review says.

Science

4 w. ago NHS physician associates should not diagnose untriaged patients, review finds

Government review says PAs sometimes used to fill roles designed for doctors, potentially exposing patients to riskNHS physician associates should be banned from diagnosing patients who have not already been seen by a doctor, a government review has concluded.The review calls for the government to overhaul the role of physician associates (PAs), who it says have been substituted in for doctors to fill staffing gaps despite having significantly less training. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Only doctors should diagnose patients, not PAs, government review says

Physician associates have been used as substitutes for doctors, despite having significantly less training.

Science

4 w. ago Physician associates ‘should be banned from seeing patients without review’

A new report suggests a major change to the role of PAs in the NHS after it acknowledged they have been used as substitutes for doctors.

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