London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – UK Health Secretary stirs claims that some patients confronting avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current NHS declines. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has revived assertions that some patients are receiving a “death sentence” because of the issues
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – Gender-critical advocates have cautioned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour schemes to bar trans conversion therapy risk criminalising parents who objected to their child’s transition. Around 140 people including peers, MPs, doctors and psychotherapists have signed an open
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Bystanders are less likely to provide chest compressions to women who suffer a cardiac arrest in public. The study by St John Ambulance disclosed that nearly a quarter of the 1,000 Britons surveyed confessed they were less
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The health watchdog has halted its inspections of local NHS authorities after an examination found significant failings. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will cease its assessments of England’s integrated care systems (ICS), which manage NHS services across
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Leading doctors have placed Britain’s immigration system as a “public mental health concern” that imposes harm on asylum seekers, and threats “re-traumatising” those already impacted by psychological distress. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsch) has urged UK
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Hundreds of people in the UK have been hospitalised after contracting a rare skin condition. According to new figures from the NHS, there has been a climb in those diagnosed with scabies. It is a rash induced
‘The fundamental promise of the NHS, that it will be there for us when we need it, has been broken’. These were recent words from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting. Regardless of your stance on this,
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – NHS maternity attendants will take part in a mandatory training programme to enhance patient safety after a damning report by the health regulator stated that poor care and damage in childbirth was in danger of becoming “normalised”.
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A West London doctor who touched a woman’s breasts in a hospital store closet and then advised her “Please don’t tell anyone” has been expelled. Senthil Panneerselvam, an ex-specialist registrar at the leading Harefield NHS Hospital in
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Structural racism is resulting in stark health inequalities among people from some ethnic backgrounds in London, according to a study by one of the UK’s top public health experts. More than half (52%) of black children and
