Inquest to open over deaths of patients treated by breast surgeon Ian Paterson
One of UK’s largest ever inquests to begin at Birmingham and Solihull coroner’s court with cases of 62 people
When Stuart Coyne received a letter to say his wife’s death, now 16 years ago, was being investigated to see if she had died unnecessarily after being operated on by the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson, he was taken aback.
“It was a shock; it came out of the blue. When Catherine died, we all thought that she’d had the best treatment for the breast cancer that she had,” said Coyne, 70, who lives in Solihull. “Now, of course, it raises that question – would she still be here today?”
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Address ‘non-existent’ severe ME care or risk further deaths, UK health minister told
Coroner who heard inquest into death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill calls for action to tackle chronic fatigue syndrome
A coroner has urged the UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, to address the “non-existent” care available to people with severe ME or risk further deaths like that of Maeve Boothby O’Neill.
The Devon coroner, Deborah Archer, who heard Boothby O’Neill’s inquest, also called on the government and NHS leaders to ensure there is more training for medics on treating patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis, and additional funding for research on the condition.
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Scottish NHS boards pay up to £837 an hour for locums amid psychiatry crisis
Quarter of posts in adult psychiatry vacant, forcing hospitals to rely on expensive private cover
Scotland’s health boards have paid up to £837 an hour for locum psychiatrists to help cope with a deepening staff shortage crisis in mental health services.
They have been charged more than £130m by dozens of private health care companies to provide temporary psychiatrists over the past five years, including one firm now owned by two billionaires from Texas.
Annual spending by Scotland’s 14 health boards on locum psychiatrists reached nearly £35m last year, up from £20m five years ago.
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‘No care left in the system’: patients on use of locum psychiatrists in Scotland
Patients angry at getting contradictory advice, inconsistent care and facing indifference from locums, survey finds
The complaints about locum psychiatrists have a clear pattern. Patients say they routinely experience inconsistent care or get contradictory advice. Some describe an indifference that borders on box-ticking.
“I had 14 locums [and] they all had different views and opinions on my care,” said one respondent to a survey of 469 patients by the advocacy group Vox Scotland. “The last locum did not bother to call me back. That was four months ago. I’ve had no contact from my mental health team since then.”
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NHS restricting access to obesity services across England, BMJ finds
<p>Budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on care for obese patients, leading to ‘postcode lottery’</p><p>The NHS is restricting access to obesity services across England, leading to patients in nearly half the country being unable to book appointments with specialist teams for support and treatments such as weight-loss jabs.</p><p>An investigation by the British Medical Journal found budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on obesity care, with patients living with the condition often deemed less worthy of care than others.</p> <a href="NHS restricting access to obesity services across England, BMJ finds">Continue reading...</a>
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NHS maternity staff to receive mandatory training to improve patient safety
Obstetricians, midwives and obstetric anaesthetists will take part in pilots after damning report by health regulator
NHS maternity staff will take part in a mandatory training programme to improve patient safety after a damning report by the health regulator said that poor care and harm in childbirth was in danger of becoming “normalised”.
Obstetricians, midwives and obstetric anaesthetists at nine maternity units across England will all have to do extra training from Monday under government plans to raise care standards for women and babies. The scheme will be rolled out to every maternity unit in the country if the pilots are successful.
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GP care analysis casts doubt on Labour pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’
Patients will increasingly see nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists instead of GPs, says Frontier Economics study
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% of all appointments at surgeries, down from the 90% who did so as recently as 2015, the analysis forecasts.
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I thought I was fine with being bald. But the chance of a cure has stirred up all sorts of feelings | Emma Beddington
It’s almost 30 years since I lost my hair to alopecia. What if Pfizer’s drug Litfulo could bring it back?
My hair looks incredible at the moment. I know because people keep telling me – in bakeries, cafes and when I was getting my tattooed eyebrows touched up yesterday.
What to say? “Thanks!” feels conceited. “My hairdresser’s a genius,” is (part of) the truth. I often narcissistically worry what would happen if he were to slip away before me; how wrong would it be to bring him five or six wigs to cut on his deathbed? In a similar vein, I was thrilled yesterday, when S, who has done my brows for decades, told me her...
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Two integrated care board chief executives and a trust CEO have been appointed as part-time national directors at NHS England.
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Coroners warn of risk to lives without urgent reform of NHS adult care
Health secretary Wes Streeting told to speed up changes as inability to free up hospital bed linked to deaths of patients
Health secretary Wes Streeting has been urged to speed up reforms to the adult care system in the wake of patient deaths after two coroners warned him of the impact insufficient care beds and service provision are having on the NHS.
Last month, coroners sent two prevention of future deaths (PFD) reports to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) after the inability to discharge patients at two hospitals was linked to the deaths of others awaiting treatment.
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Government to fund £120 blood test that could detect 12 most common cancers
Mionco screening has potential to be a ‘gamechanger’ in five years, says health secretary, Wes Streeting
The government will provide funding for a £120 blood test that has the potential to detect the 12 most common forms of cancer before symptoms develop.
The Mionco screening can identify 50 cancers before producing a false positive and is a form of the PCR test used during the Covid pandemic, according to the scientists involved in its development.
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Study of new personalised cancer therapies could ‘transform’ how the disease is treated
Large-scale clinical project could give real-time view of how well treatments are working and lead to earlier diagnoses
Scientists are embarking on a large-scale clinical study of new personalised cancer therapies which could give clinicians are real-time view of how well treatments are working.
The £9m partnership between the Francis Crick Institute, five NHS trusts, charities and bioscience companies will spend four years examining the effectiveness of new immunotherapy treatments and exploring new ways to detect cancer.
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Less haste more speed will win Labour the race to fix 21st-century Britain
Rebuilding existing infrastructure is key for the government rather than rushed policymaking for new projects
There is an air of panic about how to fix Britain. We need to move quickly, shift the dial and jump up the rankings of rich countries. Investment is needed in new stuff to make the UK modern and its services delivered on time.
It’s a political imperative that galvanised Boris Johnson and then propelled Liz Truss from obscurity to becoming an almost revolutionary prime minister.
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England urged to bring in minimum unit price on alcohol as deaths rise 10% a year
Health leaders tell government to follow Scotland and Wales on cost of cheap booze after Darzi report on death toll
Ministers are facing pressure to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol after Lord Darzi’s investigation into the NHS highlighted the “alarming” death toll in England caused by cheap drink.
Public health leaders are this weekend calling for urgent action to increase the price of cheap alcohol in supermarkets and off-licences. A two-litre bottle of cider can be bought in England for under £2, which equates to 22p per unit of alcohol.
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Residential school students in England to get free dental, eyesight and hearing checks
NHS checks are expected to reach about 18,000 students with disabilities and additional needs
Young people with disabilities and additional needs in residential schools and colleges will soon be offered free NHS hearing, dental and eyesight checks.
NHS sensory checks that were piloted by the government in 2022 and 2023 will be rolled out to educational facilities across England from next year.
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Mother repeatedly ‘kept in dark’ about reason for baby’s death, inquest told
Jedidajah Otte accuses London NHS trust of ‘dishonesty’ over three-month-old Aviva’s death and infected baby feed
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” by doctors and nurses at St Thomas’ hospital in London to tell her what was happening with three-month-old Aviva’s health.
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Why we urgently need to change the law on assisted dying | Letters
Readers respond to the debate and upcoming vote in parliament on assisted dying
Doctors have an important voice in the assisted dying debate, and I thank Dr Lucy Thomas for suggesting an alternative proposal for how the law should change (I see the worrying consequences of assisted dying in other countries. Britain’s bill needs a radical rethink, 2 October). Outsourcing choice at the end of life to “a new non-clinical” service is not a novel idea, indeed it was comprehensively rejected earlier this year by politicians in the Isle of Man, who voted in favour of embedding assisted dying within their healthcare system. I too cannot accept that such a radical concept...
‘Amazing’ trial shows drug combination stops lung cancer advancing for longer
Exclusive: Global trial finds treatment with amivantamab and lazertinib halts progression for average of 23.7 months
Doctors are hailing “amazing” trial results that show a new drug combination stopped lung cancer advancing for more than 40% longer than the standard treatment.
Lung cancer is the world’s leading cause of cancer death, accounting for about 1.8 million deaths every year. Survival rates in those with advanced forms of the disease, where tumours have spread, are particularly poor.
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Women in England with ‘worrying’ breast lumps to be referred directly to specialists
Trial forms part of government plans to expedite referrals for patients with cancer symptoms
Women who are concerned about lumps in their breasts will be able to book an appointment to see a specialist via the NHS app, without seeing a GP first, in a pilot scheme aimed at speeding up cancer diagnoses.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, announced the move in a speech to hundreds of family doctors at the Royal College of General Practitioners’ (RCGP) annual conference in Liverpool on Friday.
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White women added to NHS eligibility list to donate stem cells
Health service aims to sign up 30,000 people a year to meet rising demand and reduce use of more expensive imports
Millions of women are now eligible to donate stem cells on the NHS for the first time amid rising demand for life-saving transplants and a drive to reduce reliance on expensive imports.
Previously, only men aged 17 to 40 or women of Asian, black or mixed heritage aged 17 to 40 could join the NHS stem cell donor register. Now, all white women aged 17 to 40 are able to sign up.
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Lucy Letby: hospital chiefs ‘refused to call police amid concern of media spotlight’
Inquiry hears doctor asked bosses to contact police a week before Letby murdered final babies – but was told a review would be held instead
Hospital executives refused to call the police about Lucy Letby because of a “concern that we will be in the media spotlight”, an inquiry has been told.
Murthy Saladi, a consultant paediatrician, urged hospital bosses in an email on 29 June 2016 to contact Cheshire constabulary about a series of “unexpected and unexplained” deaths.
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Job advisers may be posted in NHS hospitals to get long-term sick back to work
Disability charity says Labour plan must not become punitive or exacerbate ‘culture of mistrust and fear’
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Employment advisers are to be stationed in NHS hospitals under Labour plans to push people on long-term sickness leave back into work, as one disability charity said the proposal must not become a “punitive” measure.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, are understood to want to expand a model used at the Maudsley psychiatric hospital, in south London, which deploys employment support, such as job seeking, CV writing and interview training.
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NHS England to screen 100,000 babies for more than 200 genetic conditions
Experts say sequencing whole genome of newborns will be ‘transformational’ in earlier diagnosis and treatment
The NHS in England is to screen 100,000 newborn babies for more than 200 genetic conditions in a world-first scheme aimed at bolstering early diagnosis and treatment.
All new parents are currently offered a blood spot test for their babies, normally when the child is five days old, to check whether they have any of nine rare but serious conditions. The newborn’s heel is pricked to collect a few drops of blood on a card that is sent away to be tested.
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We need a no-gifts policy for all public servants | Letters
Jane Carmichael and Fiona Harcombe on their experience as public sector employees and avoiding conflicts of interest
Between 2005 and 2018, I worked as a low-to-mid-ranking lawyer in two central government departments and then for an independent regulator. In all three cases, the conflict of interest policy required not only the declaration of all gifts and hospitality but also the refusal of any worth more than £30. In all cases, the policy stated that it was important to avoid not just actual impropriety but also the appearance of a potential for impropriety. Why should such policies apply to officials whose role is to advise decision-makers but not to those with the power...
Targeted support could reduce infant mortality gap across England, study finds
Researchers say interventions could address key factors, such as smoking, but ‘structural changes’ also needed
Four key factors have been identified that together account for more than one-third of the inequalities in infant deaths between the most and least deprived areas of England.
Researchers say targeted interventions to address these factors – teenage pregnancy, maternal depression, preterm birth and smoking during pregnancy – could go a significant way to reduce inequalities, although higher-level structural changes to address socioeconomic inequality will also be necessary.
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Three local NHS CEOs join NHS England as directors
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NHS privatisation and PFI - what Lord Darzi’s review missed
NHS privatisation and PFI - what Lord Darzi’s review missed
The much-anticipated review of NHS performance commissioned by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, and conducted by Professor Lord Darzi, has now been published. The review identified several factors as
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