Speaking about the recent heatwaves, England’s health secretary, who also gave an interview to the Guardian newspaper on the topic, said: “I spoke to A&E staff who were telling me that they’ve had a big increase in patients coming into A&E linked to the heat in a way that you would normally only see in…
Aysen Slack, 65 and from Eastbourne, chose to pay privately for the pills once she heard about them. She said fampridine was “working well for me” but came at a “significant expense and I could not keep doing that forever” so she had to stop. Slack said it was “great news” the drug was coming…
Regarding Peter Geoghegan’s article (I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all, 15 July), the nine years that Greater Manchester’s health system has spent without Palantir is a result not of caution but bold conviction. Greater Manchester’s integrated care board remains the only one in England to decline the Palantir-built…
O’Donnell told the inquiry that, at the end of 2024, he was asked to review thousands of incident reports raised by staff, some dating back to 2021. He said he was instructed by a senior member of staff, who said: ‘We need to get these gone’.” He said they included incidents involving self-harm, assaults on…
The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayers’ money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said. The chair Baroness Hallett criticised the “vast” waste in procurement, put at £9.9bn…
The MenB vaccine was added to the UK NHS childhood immunisation programme for babies born on or after 1 July 2015. All babies are now offered it. But it means teenagers and young adults over the age of 11 have not received this jab. Young babies are vaccinated because they are more likely to get…
Some doctors are testing new approaches, seeing if tweaking the way NHS works can deliver better health. Dr David Blane is a GP in Glasgow’s Possilpark, and academic lead for GPs at the Deep End, an organisation led by doctors in Scotland’s most deprived communities. He says patients in these neighbourhoods typically develop multiple long‑term conditions 10 to 15…
A second parliamentary committee has urged Labour to scrap Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS, increasing pressure on the next prime minister over government deals with the US tech company. MPs on the health and social care select committee want the NHS to cut ties with Palantir and find a replacement for its system, which…
Artificial intelligence software will be used on the NHS app to determine which service is most appropriate for patients in England, the health service has announced. A new triage tool will ask patients a series of questions, and will use the responses to direct them to a GP appointment, pharmacy, A&E, community service or offer…
The guidelines recommend when to suspect PMOS, how to assess women and how to diagnose the condition. They also say PMOS should not be discounted in women who have been through the menopause. PMOS is thought to be more common in women of Black, Asian and mixed ethnicity, and healthcare professionals “should consider this when…
