Doctors and health charities have urged Rachel Reeves to hit tobacco firms with a financial double whammy, including a windfall tax in the budget, to help fund Labour’s drive to eradicate smoking. They are suggesting a one-off £74m surcharge and […]
Keir Starmer’s pledge to “bring back the family doctor” is in doubt because more and more patients will not see a GP over the next 10 years, according to research. By 2034 qualified GPs in England will deliver just 70%
GP care analysis casts doubt on Labour pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’ | GPs Read More »
A grieving mother has told an inquest how secretive, evasive and “patronising” behaviour by NHS staff was “traumatic” and led to her spending years seeking the truth about her daughter’s death. Jedidajah Otte told how she encountered a “stubborn refusal”
Mother repeatedly ‘kept in dark’ about reason for baby’s death, inquest told | NHS Read More »
High street pharmacies are closing at such an alarming rate that it threatens the drive to use them instead of GPs to care for millions of people, the NHS’s patient champion warns today. A total of 436 community pharmacies in
An NHS trust that gave four newborn babies contaminated feed has admitted that it was operating “an entirely unsafe system” at the time they became infected. The admission came during evidence by a senior doctor at Guy’s and St Thomas’
Hospital where baby died from infected feed had ‘entirely unsafe system’ | Hospitals Read More »
Breast cancer patients who continue to smoke after having radiotherapy are at much higher risk of their treatment causing them lung cancer in the future, research has found. Two in three of those diagnosed with early breast cancer in the
Mental health has overtaken cancer and obesity as the health problem most Britons worry about, a global survey has revealed. Experts said the shift in the public’s perception reflected the sharp rise in recent years in mental ill-health caused by
