Mental health patients harmed by being sent to units far from home, report finds
Distant placements found to have led to anxiety, PTSD and suicide in some cases, as use of them increases in England
Mental health patients in England are being harmed by the increase in placements in psychiatric...
UK’s longest-serving MPs issue joint plea for Commons to reject assisted dying bill
Diane Abbott and the Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, mother and father of the House, say law has been rushed
Diane Abbott and Edward Leigh: Our politics could not be more different – but we’re united against...
Tower Hamlets mayor taken to court over removal of low-traffic neighbourhoods
Save Our Safer Streets crowdfunds to challenge Lutfur Rahman over scrapping three LTNs in London borough
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is facing a judicial review this week over his decision to remove three low-traffic...
Wes Streeting orders review of physician associates’ role in NHS
About 3,500 PAs work in England but there is growing alarm in medical profession about patient safety
Wes Streeting has ordered a review of what physician associates (PAs) do in the NHS, amid growing alarm in the medical...
Midlife MOTs on the NHS? Who knew? | Brief letters
Health checks | Bothering the NHS | Cornwall tourists | Christmas markets | Horse racing
Dr Jahangir Alom (Letters, 17 November) raises an important issue regarding midlife health checks. He rightly points out that people (especially men)...
760,000 women in the UK waiting for a gynaecological appointment? That’s just the tip of the iceberg | Zoe Williams
A broken NHS makes life worse for everyone. What happened to the dream of promoting ‘good health in all citizens’?
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has...
Meta bid to use AI in UK public sector takes step forward with NHS scheme
Silicon Valley tech companies competing to work with local and national government
Meta’s push to deploy its artificial intelligence system inside Britain’s public sector took a step forward on Monday night when the...
Unlicensed medicines may lead to more baby deaths in England, coroner warns
Contaminated feed inquest conclusions highlight concerns over lack of requirement for providers to report problems
More babies in England could die from issues caused by unlicensed medicines if providers are not...
A price worth paying for a dignified death | Letters
Anne Heaton, Elsbeth Christie and Emma Tait react to the health secretary’s warning that legalising assisted dying would divert funds from the NHS
I thought the vote on assisted dying was to be according to MPs’ consciences and that the...
As a doctor, I’m trained to preserve life, not end it | Letters
Chula Goonasekera highlights several critical issues that need to be taken into account with assisted dying legislation. Plus letters from Jonathan Haydn-Williams and Eric Foxley
As a doctor, I find it challenging to reconcile...
Declining standards of care for stroke patients must be reversed, says charity
Figures from audit of England, Wales and Northern Ireland show some basic care now worse than decade ago
Ministers are being urged to improve declining care for stroke patients to lower the risk of death and...
Study to look at why some people with aggressive cancer are ‘super-survivors’
NHS centres join search for patients who have lived much longer than expected, in hope of developing new therapies
Doctors have launched a major study to understand why a small percentage of cancer patients beat the...
Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments
Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS
Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients...
A vital health check is bypassing the people most in need | Letter
Take the ‘midlife MOT’ to the people, especially those in deprived and ethnic-minority communities, who are more likely to develop heart disease, writes Dr Jahangir Alom
The lack of engagement with the NHS health check should...
Hospital league tables risk sapping NHS morale | Letters
Pury Sharifi says tick boxes cannot measure continuity and compassion, while Alison Vaspe says naming and shaming is not the answer. Plus a letter from Sue Stephenson
Re Rachel Clarke’s article on Labour’s plans to introduce hospital...
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