Up to 270 women in England may have died because they did not receive invitations to a final routine breast cancer screening, the Health Secretary Jeremy H...
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200 GPs working for GP at Hand online app as 40,000 NHS patients apply
Pulse - April 26th, 2018
Babylon, the company behind the GP at Hand online app, now has 200 GPs on its roster, it has been revealed. This includes GPs working across its private...
NHS England faces first legal challenge to plans for Accountable Care Organisations
The Guardian - April 25th, 2018
NHS England faces a legal challenge to its plans to overhaul how the health service operates, which critics say are unlawful and could lead to patients bei...
Thousands of patients with mental health conditions to get personalised NHS budgets
The Guardian - April 16th, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of people with mental health conditions and physical disabilities could be given the option of a personalised NHS budget for their ow...
Hundreds of people take part in Alfie Evans Alder Hey Hospital protest
BBC Health - April 13th, 2018
Hundreds of people have staged a protest outside a hospital in Merseyside where a terminally ill toddler is being cared for. A date to switch off the li...
Advanced paramedics set to prescribe medicines from Sunday onwards
BBC Health - March 31st, 2018
Advanced paramedics in England will be able to prescribe medicines to people who do not need hospital treatment, under new laws starting on Sunday. Up t...
Southern Health NHS Trust fined £2m over deaths of two patients
BBC Health - March 26th, 2018
An NHS trust that admitted failing two patients who died in its care, one in a bath, has been fined £2m. Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, drowned in Oxford in 2...
Theresa May refuses to intervene over man’s £54,000 NHS cancer bill
The Guardian - March 22nd, 2018
Theresa May has refused to intervene in the case of Albert Thompson, the London cancer patient asked to pay £54,000 for treatment despite having lived in ...
Unions agree NHS pay deal for 1.3 million Agenda for Change staff
BBC Health - March 22nd, 2018
More than one million NHS staff, including nurses, porters and paramedics, are being offered increases of at least 6.5% over three years - with some gettin...
Theresa May promises to look into man’s £54,000 NHS cancer bill
The Guardian - March 14th, 2018
Theresa May has promised to look into the case of a London man asked to pay £54,000 for cancer treatment despite having lived in the UK for 44 years, afte...
NHS staff offered 6.5% pay rise over three years if they forfeit day’s holiday
The Guardian - March 9th, 2018
The government is set to offer around 1 million NHS staff a 6.5% pay rise over the next three years but is insisting that health workers give up a day’s ...
