Deliveroo’s moving first Christmas advert focuses on real-life deliveries as it highlights vital work of NHS midwives ‘For the midwife’ TV Christmas advert features UCLH maternity nurse Katy Deliveroo is donating to UCLH midwives for every order placed in December Around 1,400 Christmas Day babies are born in hospitals nationwide each year By Lara Keay … Read more
NHS winter crisis: Worst EVER delays in A&E and for cancer treatment as waiting list for surgery reaches ANOTHER record-high amid spike in flu and norovirus cases Just 81% of A&E patients were treated in four hours in November, data shows 4.45million patients faced 18-week waits to have routine operations in October Number of cancer patients … Read more
NHS psychologists are ‘over-diagnosing’ children with gender dysphoria over fears staff will be branded transphobic if they don’t, it has emerged. Ex-clinicians fear scores of youngsters could unnecessarily be being put on puberty-blocking drugs that warp their hormones every year. The concerns were raised by six psychologists who have resigned from London’s children’s gender-identity service in … Read more
Revealed: Fake nurse in Labour party election broadcast is an actress whose only medical experience was ‘treating’ Angela Griffin in BBC drama Ordinary Lies Rhian Cheyne, 33, is a mother-of-one from Cardiff who has appeared on the BBC She played a nurse in the drama Ordinary Lies and treated actress Angela Griffin Labour says production … Read more
An NHS hospital has been put on ‘black alert’ because its A&E department has been overwhelmed by soaring admissions. The Royal Bolton Hospital in Greater Manchester issued the warning over the weekend, urging patients to only attend in cases of genuine emergency. A so-called ‘black alert’ is declared when a hospital is under such significant … Read more
Sick baby waits 11 hours with no bed at same hospital where four-year-old boy at the centre of NHS election battle was pictured sleeping on the floor Kertu Babik took coughing three-week-old Blanka to Leeds General Infirmary She says that she arrived at 5.45pm and didn’t get a ward and bed until 5am Reported having … Read more
We are are told that if we love the NHS, if we really care about the health service and want to protect it, we must not vote Conservative. It’s a message we can’t escape on social media, particularly after Boris Johnson’s cack-handed and belated apology to the family of a four-year-old boy with suspected pneumonia … Read more
A bodybuilder has been diagnosed with terminal cancer just a month after getting the all-clear by NHS doctors. Gemma Sisson, 38, was told she had fought off the killer disease in June after battling pelvic cancer since March 2018. Medics at Leeds Cancer Centre assured the bikini competitor, from Bridlington, East Yorkshire, she would only need yearly … Read more
Sam Pringle, 28, had just made a serious attempt at suicide but despite being admitted to a psychiatric unit for a week, officials mistakenly said he ‘did not meet the criteria’ for a further assessment A suicidal man killed himself near the spot his mother’s ashes had been scattered just five weeks after he was sent … Read more
Scattered across our lush hills and valleys is a vast and largely untapped healing resource: The woods and forests of Britain. Scientific studies show increasingly that spending time amid trees can bring manifold physical and psychological benefits, such as helping to alleviate depression and improve the mental focus of young and older people, with this … Read more
A third of hospitals in England raised the price of their car parking last year, an investigation has revealed. NHS hospital car parks collected a record high £254,373,068 in charges and fines from patients, staff and visitors in 2018-19 – a 10 per cent rise on the previous year. Eighty-six per cent of people surveyed … Read more
A 24-year-old woman died after battling anorexia for 10 years while being treated by the NHS, an inquest heard today. Maria Jakes, 24, who died last September, was one of five anorexia patients in the east of England to die during NHS treatment between 2012 and 2018. On the first day of Ms Jakes’s inquest, … Read more
A high-flying recruitment executive hanged himself four days before Christmas after developing a severe alcohol problem while drinking socially with friends, an inquest heard. Steven Davis-D’Cruz, 39, earned £80,000 a year recruiting NHS managers and was said to be ‘the life and soul of any gathering’ – but his social drinking escalated until he was … Read more