A SENIOR doctor was sacked by text while on holiday after blowing the whistle on a suspected drugs scam at a British Army base. Dr Stephen Frost who led the campaign for an inquest into...
Patients who use A&E after getting drunk should pay for treatment, the majority of Brits believe. An exclusive poll for The Sun also found huge support for charging drug users and foreign tourists. Around 80%...
One in five cancers are being diagnosed at A&E – dramatically slashing the patient’s chances of survival. GPs have been partly blamed for not spotting the warning signs early enough. But the National Audit Office...
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...
An MP has asked for an urgent review of an NHS helpline after revelations yesterday that patients are being asked nonsensical questions. Liberal Democrat Andrew George claimed the non-emergency 111 service went into “meltdown” in...
“Not much point scientists finding treatments that end up axed and archived” Thousands of cancer patients will be denied life-prolonging medication after health chiefs decided to axe 21 drugs deemed to expensive for the NHS....
Taxpayers are forking out £100million a year on translation for immigrants, it was revealed last night. Police, town halls, hospitals and courts have to pay for translating documents and hiring interpreters. The biggest spender is...
Almost two years ago, a cancer surgeon named Joseph Meirion Thomas decided that he could no longer keep quiet about what he regarded as a major abuse of the NHS. The francis Inquiry into the...
Most major daily newspapers today are running headlines regarding Britain’s Accident and Emergency units going into meltdown yesterday as medics struggled to cope with a huge surge in patients. Waiting times grew to 12 hours...
More than 6,000 private patients were sent back to the NHS last year, shock figures revealed on Sunday. And more than one in three needed emergency treatment. The 6,067 total – the highest since 2008...
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