Tag: Hospitals

Labour is paying hospitals £3 million a month to delete patients from waiting lists – making it look like the NHS is treating more people than it is.

Midwives at NHS hospitals are recording the "gender identity", "pronouns" and "sexual orientation" of newborn babies in what critics have slammed as a "farcical" and "ludicrous" state of affairs.

From woke NHS wards to pro-Hamas medics, politics is poisoning healthcare – and not just in the UK. Steven Tucker warns that bias and anti-Jewish hatred could soon prove deadly.

Some of the UK's leading NHS trusts are shutting out private-school pupils – even those on full bursaries – from crucial medical work experience.

The Countess of Chester neonatal unit was a disaster zone of sewage leaks, infection risks and substandard care – and as David Livermore argues, that's a far more convincing culprit than Lucy Letby.

Pregnant women were evacuated from a hospital in Bristol after a solar panel fire broke out. There was "virtually nothing left of the rooftop solar panel array after this fire", a witness said.

Transgender patients could be treated in private rooms in NHS hospitals to protect their "rights and dignities", Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said, in a plan critics have branded "outrageous".

A new audit of baby deaths at Lucy Letby's hospital shows many occurred when she was off duty, bolstering her defense's claim that systemic failures, not her actions, may be to blame.

The Lucy Letby inquiry has admonished those who question her guilt, but the fact is that the evidence she may be a scapegoat for a poorly run hospital unit is only growing, says Prof David Livermore.

A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel.