Dog attacks left more than 3,000 people needing surgery last year as NHS figures reveal a 50% jump in savage maulings in a decade More than 400 of the dog attack patients were children younger than five Some 5,257 people went to hospital after an attack but didn’t need surgical help The Dogs Trust charity said … Read more
Daily breast cancer bill that could add years to your life in what is being hailed as the biggest advance against the disease in 20 years Palbociclib targets weaknesses within cancer cells stopping them dividing Women taking the drug have seen the disease stop progressing for six months Some of those on a clinical trial … Read more
Very occasionally, a historic Election takes place that changes not just the following few years, but shapes future decades. In 1906, the Liberal government won a majority and the balance of power crucially tipped towards democracy. In 1945, the Conservative Party had lost its way and the Attlee government created the NHS – one of … Read more
Leaked documents used by Jeremy Corbyn as ‘proof’ that the Tories are planning to sell off parts of the NHS in a US trade deal WAS leaked by Russia in bid to manipulate the election, Reddit reveals Reddit said it banned 61 accounts following an investigation of suspect activity Mirrored activity of Moscow-controlled operation dubbed … Read more
Andrew Stewart, 32, who worked at hospitals in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, used his position to look up patient files of women An NHS radiographer who illegally accessed the personal records of more than 200 female patients before pestering them for dates is facing jail. Andrew Stewart, 32, who worked at hospitals in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, used … Read more
Richard MacCallum, 54, outside the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester A divorcee who claims she had an affair with her married doctor has today told a tribunal that he used her for sex, insisting: ‘It was just him, him, him.’ The 63-year old woman said she had a month long fling with hospital consultant Dr … Read more
Philippa Hulme, 46, raised concerns over being placed on HRT during her menopause An NHS manager took a fatal overdose of anti-anxiety medication after she expressed fears about being put on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to cope with her menopause, which ‘may have contributed to her symptoms’, an inquest heard. Philippa Hulme, 46, was already … Read more
NHS hospitals pay out almost £600MILLION in compensation to patients over three years for failing to diagnose diseases including cancer There have been 4,097 payouts in the last three years – a total of 26 a week Included are 399 cases of cancer, which have cost the NHS £33.4million Dr Lisa Steen died in 2016 … Read more
BBC News at Ten host Huw Edwards is criticised for liking Tweets that urged people to vote Labour and mocked Tories Huw Edwards liked a tweet which urged users to ‘vote Labour’ at the end He also liked tweets slamming the health secretary and the Prime Minister The 58-year-old said he would never apologise for supporting … Read more
GP patients will have their entire genome screened to find early clues of disease in a study. Researchers will assess how 20 patients over the age of 30 cope psychologically to their results before it begins to use it nationally. If successful, it could pave the way towards more routine genetic testing to predict and … Read more
Patient safety is in danger because NHS hospitals use nearly two DOZEN types of computer software and are left unable to share medical records, damning report reveals Research by Imperial College London found the NHS has no software standard Sharing between hospitals is sometimes blocked by incompatible computers Being unable to share information could lead … Read more
Nigel Farage suggests he would challenge Donald Trump over NHS drug prices under a post-Brexit UK/US trade deal in a BBC interview with Andrew Neil – but says chlorinated chicken would be fine in British supermarkets ‘with the right labelling’ Brexit Party leader said that the row over drug price rises was ‘utterly ludicrous’ But … Read more
Jomo Mathurine, 40, was jailed for 14 months at Reading Crown Court today. A judge made him subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years which prohibited from making any image with a woman as the subject without her prior consent A ‘highly respected’ hospital consultant who secretly filmed his sexual encounters with … Read more