News Round-Up
24 April 2024
The latest NHS leadership review fails to focus on improving patient care and reinforces the impression that the NHS is captive to a management elite which resists all change in an institution sick from top to bottom.
Many NHS trusts have forgotten to pass on the news to their employees that patients are no longer required to wear face masks. A GP tells the Daily Sceptic it's time the NHS abandoned these mini comfort blankets.
The number of adults being treated for gender dysphoria on the NHS has risen 75% in five years, and many patients are being given oestrogen, a drug in very short supply amidst a nationwide shortage of drugs for HRT.
The NHS has now issued new central guidance on face masks, telling hospitals and other clinical settings to cease the requirement for staff, patients and visitors to wear a face mask in most settings.
While there is little sign as yet of NHS hospitals dropping their mask rules, at least one private hospital has returned to mask-free normality. Will the NHS follow?
During the pandemic, GPs adopted a new system designed to cut the number of patients they would see. It's been devastating for the health of patients. Yet there is no sign that this 'emergency' measure is going anywhere.
More than 3,000 diabetics in England may have died due to a lack of health checks during the first year of Covid, a major NHS study warns.
Monkeypox is a well-known virus, studied by scientists for decades, spread by close contact and has established treatments. So why has the NHS website recently been altered to add an isolation requirement?
When you enter a healthcare facility you could think you had entered a time warp and were back in the bad old days of lockdown 2020: gallons of hand sanitiser, Perspex screens, masked staff and even security guards.
The requirement for healthcare workers to wear masks in clinical settings is to be dropped from Monday, the Daily Sceptic has learned, paving the way for the end of masking for patients.
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