‘Chronic’ low pay hurting civil service staff morale and recruitment, say MPs Public accounts committee finds real-terms median pay has decreased for most Whitehall staff since 2013 The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2024
NHS England chief condemns Frank Hester’s ‘racist, sexist and violent’ remarks In an update to healthcare leaders, Amanda Pritchard expresses shock at entrepreneur’s comments about Diane Abbott The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2024
Puberty blocker treatment for transgender kids checked, amid England move 'NSW Health continues to monitor developments in evidence.' Newcastle Herald · Mar 18, 2024
‘We actually don’t know much’: the scientists trying to close the knowledge gap in trans healthcare Researchers are running trials on how hormone therapies affect trans people that will also benefit healthcare for the wider population The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024
Frank Hester’s TPP employed Conservative peer as trade envoy in 2016 Exclusive: Lady Manzoor was paid £148,000 for the part-time role, showing Hester’s party links date back further than first thought The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024
NHS ombudsman warns hospitals are cynically burying evidence of poor care Exclusive: Rob Behrens says ministers and health leaders are doing too little to end ‘cover-up culture’ in England The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024
Puberty blockers: what are they and what are the concerns about them? As NHS England prepares to end routine provision for children with gender dysphoria, here’s all you need to know about them The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024
Thank you, NHS England, for offering baby-loss leave. This kindness should be every employee’s right Only about one-fifth of employers give paid leave after miscarriage, says Kat Brown, editor of No One Talks About This Stuff: 22 Stories of Almost Parenthood The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024
Child cancer unit to move to central London hospital despite opposition from MPs and parents NHS to move specialist cancer services to the Evelina in Waterloo Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2024
What are puberty blockers? UK government bans sale of medications to under-18s The ban only applies to new patients Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2024
Private equity groups collecting millions to run UK government-funded sexual assault referral centres Exclusive: Charities concerned at profits being made from government contracts to help victims The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024
NHS England trusts advised to offer women two weeks’ miscarriage leave Non-compulsory guidance issued to all trusts also recognises fathers’ right to grieve after loss of a baby The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024
OPINION - Stonewall has a terrible grip on British public life Quite how needful it was for equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to tell public bodies to pull the plug on their connection with Stonewall, the pernicious, ubiquitous campaigning group, can be seen in its latest accounts. Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2024
Why disturbing leaks from US gender group WPATH ring alarm bells in the NHS WPATH is no model in the search for evidence-based care of transgender children The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2024 Private hospitals ‘cannibalising’ NHS in England by doing 10% of elective operations Campaigners say health service cannot provide care quickly because of underinvestment, which is allowing firms to ‘make a killing’
The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024 More than a quarter of ambulance staff ‘sexually harassed by public’ 2023 survey of NHS staff reveals scale of assaults and harassment with about one in 12 of all health workers in England experiencing incidents
The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2024 NHS England leaders welcome £6bn budget boost but say much more is needed NHS Confederation chief says money ‘will scarcely touch the sides’, while there is little help for struggling social care system
The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024 Drug that could slow womb cancer to be rolled out by NHS in England Dostarlimab or Jemperli, an immunotherapy used alongside chemotherapy, could extend life expectancy
The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024 Sponge on a string reduces long waits for diagnostic test for cancer Exclusive: cytosponge detects precursor to oesophageal cancer, slashing NHS waiting times for endoscopies
International Business Times UK · Feb 23, 2024 New MedTech Funding To Predict Diseases And Make Treatments Available To UK Patients The UK government has awarded medtech funding to eight UK medtech companies which are developing pathbreaking tests and AI detection tools for faster treatment of life-threatening diseases, reducing the burden of NHS.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2024 Rage, relief and recognition: the TV version of my book Breathtaking has opened a floodgate During the Covid pandemic, NHS staff were treated as expendable, says Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking
The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2024 ‘Martha’s rule’ granting urgent second opinion to be adopted in 100 English hospitals Initiative before national rollout will allow review of care for patients whose condition is deteriorating
The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024 ‘Gamechanging’ cancer screening offered to people with Lynch syndrome in England NHS bowel screening programme will offer specialist assessment every two years to people with condition
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 More than a third of cancer patients in England face potentially deadly delays Overall NHS figures show 6.37 million patients waiting for health treatment at end of December
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 ‘Huge human and economic toll’: one in seven people in England waiting for NHS treatment Prolapsed organs and paralysis among conditions patients are left to endure as a result of ballooning waiting lists