Some cancer patients are still being kept in the dark about when their treatment will resume and are frightened that their illness will get worse, according to a new poll.
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The Government is aiming to double its winter flu vaccination programme in England to 30 million people, with free jabs for those aged 50 and over and 11-year-olds. Last year,
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Unsafe mental health buildings are a “disaster waiting to happen”, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. Dilapidated buildings and years of under-investment have been exposed by Covid-19, with old
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A total of seven inquests have now been opened into the deaths of women treated by rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson, who was jailed in 2017 for wounding patients. Area
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Staff caring for dying Covid-19 patients at a major UK teaching hospital were subject to a campaign of bullying and abuse if they dared complain about working conditions, a union
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Frontline workers excluded from the public sector pay rise said they feel undervalued and like “our lives don’t matter”. Almost 900,000 workers are set to benefit from the pay rise,
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People with non-life-threatening conditions are to be asked to make an appointment ahead of attending Wales’s biggest accident and emergency unit. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is introducing a
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The Government is to issue new guidance for patients and their families on do not attempt resuscitation orders (DNARs) after a woman threatened legal action. Kate Masters instructed law firm
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A second wave of coronavirus infections this winter could be more serious than the first, with 120,000 hospital deaths in a “reasonable worst-case scenario”, scientists advising the Government have warned.
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The UK is among the countries to have recorded the highest number of health and social care worker deaths during the coronavirus crisis, according to a report by Amnesty International.
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