A groundbreaking blood test set to be trialled by the NHS this autumn can accurately detect two-thirds of life-threatening cancers. The Galleri test, described as the holy grail for cancer, detects the disease early in healthy people and NHS officials believe it has the potential to save thousands of lives every year. Even before someoneContinue reading “NHS Trials Holy Grail Blood Test That Can Detect 50 Kinds Of Cancer”
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Five-Year-Olds Are Having Panic Attacks
It was claimed that children as young as five are having panic attacks about meeting their friends for playdates following repeated lockdowns. An additional 1.5 million children will need mental health treatment in the wake of COVID, with NHS bosses warning of an eruption of locked in trauma. Some young children have been left increasinglyContinue reading “Five-Year-Olds Are Having Panic Attacks”
NHS Worker Refuses To Apologise
An NHS worker who was spared prison after using a dead COVID patient’s bank card to purchase crisps, sweets and fizzy beverages from a hospital vending machine has refused to apologise. Healthcare assistant Ayesha Basharat, 23, used the 83-year-old woman’s card only 17 minutes after she died at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital on January 24. SheContinue reading “NHS Worker Refuses To Apologise”
The Dentist Will See You… In Three Years
A damning report reveals that dental patients are being made to wait until up to 2024 for NHS appointments. Laying bare the extent of the crisis, watchdogs said many people were turning to private care or even pulling out their own teeth, and doing DIY fillings. A number of surgeries have thousands on their waitingContinue reading “The Dentist Will See You… In Three Years”
England’s NHS Plans To Share Patient Records With Third Parties
England’s NHS is making ready to scrap the medical records of 55 million patients, together with sensitive data related to psychological and sexual well being, prison information and the abuse of adults and youngsters, right into a database it’s going to share with third parties. The information assortment venture, which is the primary of itsContinue reading “England’s NHS Plans To Share Patient Records With Third Parties”
NHS Doctor Who Admitted Injecting Drugs She Stole From Work To Give Her Energy
An NHS doctor remains suspended from work after stealing drugs and needles to give her an energy boost but initially blagged that they were to clean her fish tank. Dr Suzy Ling was last year suspended for 12 months for foraging equipment stocks and injecting herself while on duty at Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire.Continue reading “NHS Doctor Who Admitted Injecting Drugs She Stole From Work To Give Her Energy”
One Per Cent NHS Pay Rise Is An Insult
The son of a nurse who’d inspired almost her whole family to go into the same profession before her death from coronavirus has described the one per cent pay rise for NHS staff as an insult. Linda Obiageli Udeagbala, 60, who lived in Croydon, south London, died last month after getting the virus. She’d workedContinue reading “One Per Cent NHS Pay Rise Is An Insult”
UK Government May Start Offering Financial Rewards For Becoming Healthier
The government is expanding access to weight loss services and may start giving people financial rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as part of the fight against obesity. The Department of Health and Social Care is giving the NHS and local councils in England £70 million to pay for up to 700,000 overweight or obeseContinue reading “UK Government May Start Offering Financial Rewards For Becoming Healthier”
NHS Breast Surgeon, 57, Who Was Fired After Setting Patient On Fire
An NHS surgeon was sacked after a patient was accidentally set on fire during an operation has won almost £65,000 in a race and unfair dismissal claim. Breast specialist Obi Iwuchukwu, 57, was suspended after a woman sustained significant burns whilst he operated on her in August 2013. Mr Obi Iwuchukwu had used an alcoholContinue reading “NHS Breast Surgeon, 57, Who Was Fired After Setting Patient On Fire”
NHS Worker Mother, 39, And Daughter, 24, Are Stabbed To Death
A mother and daughter have been stabbed to death before a man smashed a vehicle into a viaduct in a presumed double murder-suicide. Nurse Emma Robertson Coupland, 39, was stabbed outside Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, Scotland, at 7.45 pm. Her daughter Nicole Anderson, 24, was attacked 20 minutes later near a takeaway shop she workedContinue reading “NHS Worker Mother, 39, And Daughter, 24, Are Stabbed To Death”
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