NHS ‘bed-blocking’ fuelled by 50 steps needed to discharge fit patients
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hospital staff have to complete 50 separate steps on average to discharge a patient, it has emerged, as the NHS grapples with…
Imagine your child needs specialist food to survive – now imagine you can no longer afford it
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Dialling 999 as my baby’s face swelled to unrecognisable proportions was not how I had hoped our early days of weaning would…
A worrying number of teenage girls don't know what coercive control is
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new report from Northern Ireland suggests that fewer than one in six 16-year-old girls have heard of coercive control and understand…
The hidden dangers of 'gender-affirming care': 55% of trans women who have 'bottom surgery' are in so much pain they need medical care years later
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Reading Time: < 1 minute More than half of trans women who have ‘bottom’ surgery are in so much pain a year later they need medical attention,…
10-minute scan 'could rid millions of adults of high blood pressure'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Up to one in 20 people with high blood pressure could have their condition cured or dramatically improved thanks to a new…
Two in five adults claim to have suffered economic or financial abuse – survey
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Two-fifths (40%) of people have suffered from financial or economic abuse at some point in their adulthood, the research, commissioned by insurer Aviva,…
NHS trust declined care for vulnerable Black patient days before he died in police custody
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An NHS trust declined to provide care for a vulnerable Black man days before he died in police custody while having a…
To tell or not? Tough choices of raising HIV+ children on drugs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute When Kevin Kibet* was born in 2016, he weighed 3.8 kilogrammes. Weeks later, he started weighing less. Read More
CNN’s medical expert is slammed for admitting over 2 YEARS LATE that Covid deaths were overcounted
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Reading Time: < 1 minute It only took 2-1/2 years, but CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen has finally admitted that COVID deaths and hospitalizations are being…
Basildon Hospital maternity staff exposed to 30 times legal gas limit
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Staff at a maternity unit were exposed to almost 30 times the legal workplace exposure limit for nitrous oxide, documents have shown….