Dodgy Doctors – ‘Clampdown’
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...
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Damning Report on GP Access for Disabled People
Deaf Brits are being told they can book a GP appointments only by phone, a damning report claims. And a blind patient was sent medical letters by his family doctor that he could not see...
Let patients ‘buy better care on NHS’
Patients should be able to top-up their NHS treatment with small monthly payments in return for an ‘enhanced’ service, a report suggests. Allowing people who can afford it to invest extra money would raise billions...
‘Hundreds die’ because of NHS bed blockage
Several daily newspapers have, today, highlighted the delays in admitting patients to hospital from A&E because of a shortage of beds. This is leading to “hundreds of deaths per year” in the UK, the royal...
NHS Hospital Privately Run – Needs £10million Bailout
Charlie Cooper of The Independent reports that the only NHS hospital run by a private company has asked for a £10m tax-payer funded bailout. Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is due to be handed back to...
Foreign Patients Using the NHS – A Crackdown – Long Overdue
Foreign patients will have to prove they are entitled to free NHS care in a clampdown on health tourism. In order to register with a GP, EU nationals will be required to show their European...
Family Raise £38k After Runner Mum Loses Legs To Illness
A MOTHER who was training for a half marathon now faces a lifetime of disability after falling so ill on Christmas Eve surgeons had to amputate her legs and fingers. Tracy Ralph, 34, was taken...
‘Murder at Random’ By A Male Nurse
A NURSE murdered three patients and poisoned 19 others by contaminating saline with insulin “at random” a court heard. Victorino Chua, 49, emerged as the “common denominator” during an investigation into the deaths of Tracey...
111 Helpline – Reason for Crisis at A&E
So now we know – it’s the NHS 111 service that’s caused 95 per cent of the rise in patients attending A&E. Of the 450,000 extra people who went to A&E last year, 220,000 were...
A&E Crisis – Officials say 5 Years to Repair
The winter crisis in hospital A&E departments could take up to 5 years to sort out, senior health officials warned yesterday. Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England said it would be “foolish” to...