Tag: NHS

NHS bosses are offering a £100,000 contract for "anti-racism" consultancy services, despite cash-strapped hospitals mulling scaling back operations this winter to balance the books.

The danger of the Sudiksha Thirumalesh ruling is that, following its logic, the state could declare all dissenters from official 'facts' to be mad, says Dr David Seedhouse.

An NHS medic, Dr Mennah Elwan, mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen, claiming on X that "there are no civilians in Israel" and calling for the UK to forcibly remove the whole Israeli population.

Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes?

Scotland's crisis-hit NHS is to begin a "programme of reparations" to Jamaica and Africa – paid for out of existing healthcare budgets – in a bid to "make amends" for slavery links dating from the 18th century.

Women's rights campaigners and health experts today welcomed the Government's commitment to restore "common sense" in the NHS by blocking gender neutral language and men on female wards.

19 year-old Sudiksha Thirumalesh died last month after a court ruled she was not mentally competent to override her doctors' view that her treatment should cease. But was this right, asks Dr David Seedhouse.

The "carnage" in care homes as Covid hit and the vulnerable elderly were hastily discharged from hospital and isolated from proper care is laid bare in a new study.

A major source of our current economic malaise – now approaching the highest tax burden since records began – is the cost and impact of the Covid lockdowns, a price which must never be forgotten, says Kate Andrews.

NHS contractor Bromley Healthcare is hosting a three-day diversity conference for healthcare workers, covering topics like pronouns and LGBTQ+ issues, despite more than seven million people waiting for treatment.