Many GPs will no longer prescribe painkillers, antihistamines or common antibiotics A number of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are banning GPs from prescribing anything that can be bought over the counter. Common treatments, such as...
Cahal Milno writing in The Independent – A coroner concluded for the first time that a man with severe mental illness killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work” by the...
The Daily Mail comments – On day two of our investigation into abuses of the health service, it emerges that ministers have known for nine months about foreigners charging the NHS for treatment in their...
John Aston writes in The Independent – Guidelines on assisted suicide for doctors who may become involved in “right to die” cases will come under attack in the High court. Human rights lawyers say the...
More than half of GPs would be willing to help a patient die if it was legal, a survey has revealed. Just a year ago a poll showed far fewer – 19 per cent –...
Something else we already know! – NHS doctors who work in private healthcare “on the side” are directly harming the health service, a senior consultant has said. In an article in the medical journal the...
Patients are to be given unprecedented powers to lodge complaints against dodgy doctors and NHS chiefs. Sources say top Tories plan to launch a people’s ombudsman after a spate of health scandals. It comes days...
Hospitals must end the use of gagging clauses to silence whistleblowers, an inquiry will say this week. A long-awaited report by by Sir Robert Francis will demand the NHS does far more to end its...
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