During Lucy Letby's trial, her defence team failed to call a single expert witness, a decision which the authors of a new book call "inexplicable". Was there covert collusion in a guilty verdict, asks Guy de la Bédoyère. The post Did Lucy Letby’s Defence Team Collude in a Guilty Verdict? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.| The Daily Sceptic
Il Servizio Sanitario Nazionale britannico (NHS) è finito al centro delle polemiche per aver diffuso linee guida che presentano presunti […] L'articolo Servizio sanitario britannico sotto accusa: ok ai matrimoni tra cugini per non discriminare le etnie che lo praticano<br /><span class='post-summary' style='font-size: 17px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 22px; display: block; font-family: source sans pro; padding-top: 10px;'>L'NHS elenca i “benefici” dei matrimoni tra cugini di primo g...| FeministPost
var pd_tags = new Array;pd_tags["16087543-src"]="poll-oembed-simple"; Access to NHS continuing healthcare is “unfair and inconsistent”, a study has reported. There are significant local and regional variations in eligibility for and spending on CHC that cannot be fully explained by differences in…| Community Care
My pal Hayley has written a book - a graphic memoir about dealing with breast cancer. Graphic as in graphic-novel - although there are a large variety of sketched boobs dotted throughout the pages and some frank discussions of sex. I'm not very good with "medical stuff" - so I was quite proud of myself for only twice needing to take a break from reading it because I felt faint. It is the most…| Terence Eden’s Blog
CyclopsA globe of bone.Polished white,no seam, no hair,a moon grown mean.A crag of nose,jutting—wind-cut, cliff-hard.Below itthe single eye,burning on some pointI cannot name.Not me.Not the space.A…| Musings from a Stonehead
Three healthcare workers are taking a legal challenge against Barts Health NHS Trust's new uniform policy which bans expressions of support for Palestine.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
Nick Dearden, of the Global Justice Now organisation, has written a book on one major section of international capitalism—the pharmaceutical industry. He demonstrates that the development of medicine is held back by the straitjacket of profit, not by a lack of new ideas. Since its inception, Big Pharma has been embroiled in scandal. The book...| Socialist Worker
Healthcare finance leaders are cutting compliance costs with smarter L&D solutions amid rising audit pressure and regulatory demands like CQC| Think Learning
It helps to understand how A&E works as a system before proposing how to change the public measurements used to manage it. There is little e...| policyskeptic.blogspot.com
In November 2023, Palantir won a massive contract to run the Federated Data Platform (FDP) to integrate and manage vast amounts of sensitive NHS data, sparking the formation of No Palantir in the NHS, a growing national campaign of NHS workers, patients and community groups. By now the roll-out of the platform should be well […] The post No Palantir in the NHS and Corporate Watch Reveal the Real Story Behind the Federated Data Platform Rollout appeared first on Corporate Watch.| Corporate Watch
With deep links to Israeli military and intelligence services, the UK Israel Tech Hub is a UK government initiative that claims to open doors between the Israeli and UK markets. Public funds are enabling Israeli technology firms to be fast-tracked into the NHS, and we think Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaigners ought to know about […] The post The UK Israel Tech Hub: Fast-Tracking Israeli Tech Companies into the NHS appeared first on Corporate Watch.| Corporate Watch
Say ItDo they come at dawn?Do they come at dusk?Do they come at dinner,plates still warm?With shields?With masks?With smiles?With apologies?Tea?Biscuit?Thank you.No thank you.Bags by the door.Numbe…| Musings from a Stonehead
It is an old cliché that people in the UK want European levels of public services for US levels of taxation – even if the last government achieved closer to US levels of public services for European levels of taxation. And maybe there is nothing wrong with this: any economist will tell you that a […]| The Policy Sketchbook
The cost of Mounjaro is set to be discounted in UK pharmacies when the price hike hits – with up to £83 savings.| Birmingham Live
Some people are already able to get the free jab while others will need to wait for October| Wales Online
Campaign group Mums for Lungs are calling for a phase out of polluting diesel cars, SUVs and domestic wood burning to clean up Lewisham's air.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
For NHS advisers, a new school year brings fresh opportunities to develop the next generation of student leaders. Here, Kathryn Kula, a chemistry teacher and NHS and student council adviser at Jefferson Township High School in Jefferson, NJ, shares how she helps students better understand and uphold the four pillars of NHS. 1. Scholarship The […] The post Another Chance to Teach the 4 NHS Pillars appeared first on NASSP.| NASSP
The NHS has issued a warning to people taking specific medications over the possible risks of mixing them with certain painkillers| Wales Online
Clive Phillips, 50, realised something was wrong when he could not give a thumbs up at work| Birmingham Live
The NHS says you will not usually need treatment| Liverpool Echo
Dr Chris Day For those with long memories some 32 months ago I wrote a disparaging blog about justice in employment tribunals after sitting through yet another hearing involving Dr Chris Day’…| Westminster Confidential
Last week I put out a piece about a GP management company, eHarley Street Central Management Ltd, that had been given a contract by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to run a number of GP practices in the Gwent valleys. The piece was written following many reports that eHarley Street’s behaviour towards patients, staff, and … Continue reading eHarley Street: An Update| Jac o' the North
Problems with primary health care provision in parts of south east Wales have been reported for a while. You're about to read a fuller account. And the fuller it gets, the more disturbing it becomes. ◊ TO EXPLAIN . . . It seems the contract to run a number of GP surgeries was awarded to…| Jac o' the North
The star, aged 37, said 'I need a hug' as she revealed she had been diagnosed with early breast cancer| Chronicle Live
Ann Lally, 70, was diagnosed with the same cancer as her late husband| Birmingham Live
Newcastle experts are working on a prototype that could save lives and improve breast screening.| Chronicle Live
The breast screening vans were launched in 2022 following a charity's investment of more than £800,000.| Chronicle Live
Five minutes with: Alyson McGregor MBE In the latest Social Prescribing Network's Connecting Conversations series, Chair Sian Brand sits down with Alyson McGregor MBE, founder and National Director of Altogether Better, an NHS national network organisation that pioneers Collaborative Practice to transform the relationship between citizens and services.With over 30 years of experience across the public, private,| College of Medicine and Integrated Health
The British Medical Association (BMA) announced resident doctors strikes from July 25 to July 30. Here, we tell you everything you need to know about resident doctor strikes, including what patients need to know about their care in the event …| healthmedia.blog.gov.uk
It's estimated 1.5 million people across Britain are taking medication to help them lose weight| Liverpool Echo
Why we need to be able to call it out now There is no simple, agreed definition of far-right, but we urgently need one: We know what ‘right-wing’ means – […] The post What is ‘Far-Right’? appeared first on 99%.| 99%
The former cricketer has visited the NHS staff who treated him after his Top Gear horror crash| Wales Online
Nearly a million NHS HC2 certificates have gone to asylum seekers in the last five years, granting them free prescriptions, dental care, eye tests, wigs and even help with travel costs.| The Daily Sceptic
More than 418,000 children have left school with no HPV protection| Birmingham Live
Resident doctors began the first of five days of strike action on Friday July 25| Chronicle Live
Patients Summary Our health system is in crisis. If we don’t act now, we risk the NHS ceasing to exist as a publicly funded service, free at the point of use. But if we seize the opportunities provided by new …| Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre
Disabled people say the cuts will cause severe hardship for those who cannot work, make life harder for disabled people who are in work .. and do nothing to address the real barriers to work that disabled people face.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
A child has tragically died at Alder Hey Children's Hospital after contracting measles| Liverpool Echo
I have borrowed this idea from Danny Dorling (in his Shattered Nation, 2023) and used the easily accessible data on the Our World in Data website to show how the UK has fallen in the global health …| Mike Haynes - The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
City leaders were told around one in eight adults in Newcastle smokes, but that there are “massive inequality issues” affecting different parts of Tyneside| Chronicle Live
An application for a judicial review of the Secretary of State’s decision to ban puberty blockers but not cross-sex hormones was heard in the High Court on 21st May. The case was brought by Keira Bell together with two parents. NHS England was an interested party. Although the Court refused permission for a judicial review, […] The post Ban on cross-sex hormones to be considered after court rejects application for JR appeared first on Transgender Trend.| Transgender Trend
Child Q case: Appeal Court agrees it has the power to override the consent to medical treatment of a child aged 16 or over.| Transgender Trend
The newly published NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England sets out a bold and necessary vision for the future of healthcare.… The post The NHS 10 Year Plan: What It Means for Workforce and People Leaders appeared first on Think Learning.| Think Learning
A personal view by David Czarnetzki 10th July 2025 Since its release on 3rd July 2025, I have read through the 10-year plan in its entirety. The document consists of 143 pages, supplemented by 272 endnotes which annotate the references. Aspirations run high throughout the document, but I have concentrated on the area of most […]| phsothetruestory
From L to R: Alex Whitfield, Hampshire Ben Travis, Lewisham Daniel Elkeles London Ambulance Three of the top 50 NHS chief executives chosen by a panel set up by the Health Services Journal in 2024 …| Westminster Confidential
Research shows that heatwaves are the most dangerous type of extreme weather and London is the UK city most at risk. People living in deprived areas face the greatest risks to their health. We asked Lewisham council how it is responding to the threat.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
St John's Medical Centre has started a weekly clinic offering HIV prevention medicine to anyone who lives in Lewisham. This is the first time that a full PrEP service has been offered from a GP in the UK, and Lewisham council hope that it will widen access.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
A severely disabled man from New Cross was left housebound and completely dependent on friends and family, while he appealed to police to release his wheelchair from Charlton Vehicle Pound.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
Rachel Reeves splashed about the billions as she announced her spending review. But there were big absences.| Big Issue
A quick, critical look at the key ideas in the new UEC plan [NB: updated with extra comments on June 8] The new NHS plan for improving em...| policyskeptic.blogspot.com
The Health and Social Care Secretary has accepted the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies to confirm pay awards for 2025-26 for doctors, nurses, dentists, and other NHS staff. This confirms what these groups will be paid for …| Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre
The National Honor Society (NHS) is committed to helping students achieve their postsecondary education goals. Since 1946, more than $19 million in scholarships has been awarded to outstanding NHS senior members. The scholarship program is supported by the parent organization of NHS, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). This year, we’re honored to […]| NASC
Since 1946, the National Association of Secondary School Principals and NHS have awarded more than $19 million in scholarship funds to students across the United States. In 2020, the awards totaled $2 million. These scholarships aid students in a number of ways. Advise recently caught up with 2020’s semifinalist recipient, Eliana Hornbuckle, to find out […]| NASC
The structure of the data as released and the interactive tool to visualise it are a mess of bad choices that get in the way of helping other analysts derive useful understanding from the data. They could do much better. | policyskeptic
The NHS is a microcosm of the British economy| policyskeptic
[Update: I need to issue an important caveat about the analysis in this post. When published, I had just been made aware of new and very detailed data sources about hospital prescribing, monthly sources with detailed analysis of volume and indicative price. The analysis was based on those sources and was consistent with a longstanding NHS Digital annual report on the total cost of hospital prescribing. But when the analysis attracted some attention, it was pointed out that the indicative pric...| policyskeptic
In debates about what the NHS should do to improve its performance it is common to see benchmarks of staffing or bed numbers versus comparable health systems. The argument is that the system needs more doctors/nurses/beds. This is not the biggest problem. The NHS has suffered far more from a failure to invest in capital, innovation or management. | policyskeptic
Last week the government released a report on overprescribing that suggested perhaps 10% of prescriptions issued by GPs were unneeded or harmful. The media headlines tended to frame this as another reason to attack GPs. The Telegraph, for example, had this headline: "GP's needless prescriptions push drugs bill to £9bn…"| policyskeptic
In a gobsmacking interview with the Institute for Government, Andrew Lansley revealed his reflections on his notorious health bill. He doesn't seem to have learned much. Had he been in charge in 1940 Britain would have lost the Battle of Britain. This is important as his mistakes are still prevalent in government thinking about how to run the NHS. And we need to learn from his mistakes or we will lose the battle for the NHS.| policyskeptic
[NB this was submitted to the BMJ as a possible blog in March 2021. They rejected it as not topical enough. But the relevance of the topic has increased a great deal in April and May as GPs have seen record workloads. So I thought i'd post it here to to remind me what I was thinking then before I write about the latest developments in the debate.]| policyskeptic
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth| policyskeptic
While the NHS and many other public services need more resources this might not be the best path to big improvements in quality and performance. Not least because deploying extra resources in the wrong place might yield only small improvements. Maybe we should start by spending more on getting the data and analysis required to understand where the biggest problems are and what interventions might solve them. And then focus on installing effective performance management throughout the system s...| policyskeptic
AIs won't take over the world because they won't be able to work out how to do it. But they won't solve our big problems either. The hype machine behind current AI investment is founded on an unwarranted extrapolation from recent AI successes that doesn't apply to most real world problems. We need to learn where AI can work and where it can't or we will waste money on systems that can't possibly work. | policyskeptic
Our GPs are probably grossly overworked. There is plenty of evidence that this is true, but recent data collected by NHS Digital paints an ambiguous picture. Many GPs have reacted to my analysis of that data with incredulity, claiming NHS Digital don't know what they are doing. Or that the data is meaningless and too much of a burden to collect. The real situation is more complex and won't be fixed by NHS Digital alone but requires GPs to pay more attention to how they collect data and why it...| policyskeptic
Several popular news stories in the last couple of weeks have shown that attention-grabbing headlines do more to distract than they do to improve the NHS. You have to know what the problem is before you fix it and too many popular discussions on the system's problems identify the wrong problem and get in the way of actual improvement.| policyskeptic
The current proposal by NHSE to replace the 4hr A&E target is muddled and confusing. It isn't strongly supported by evidence. It will, most likely, make the experience of patients in A&E even worse. Worse still, if things do get worse we won't have the available public data to measure the deterioration. If they paid any attention to history or the experts in emergency medicine, they could have done a much better job.| policyskeptic
Great British Energy has shared the news that it is investing £180m for solar to be installed on school rooftops and NHS buildings. As a team regularly installing solar on schools, and working closely with a number of NHS Trusts, Joju Solar enthusiastically welcomes this... The post Solar schools and Great British Energy’s first major project appeared first on Joju Solar.| Joju Solar
Over two thirds (68%) of UK health workers say high energy bills contribute to avoidable NHS hospital admissions according to new research.| End Fuel Poverty Coalition
You may have heard that a small minority of people have not been invited to screening appointments because of an error in how GP offices have registered them. This issue affects screening invitations for bowel cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, and …| Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre
Think Learning hosted an insights & feedback for NHS organisations using Totara at to help shape the future of the platform.| Think Learning
Long waits in A&E kill patients. A new analysis of mortality and A&E waits by the ONS–despite issues in the analysis and presentation of the...| policyskeptic.blogspot.com
“The social care sector is on its last legs. Without urgent action, there will be nothing left to reform.” Dr Jane Townson, CEO, Homecare Association We begin 2025 much as we have the past decade w…| Making rights make sense
I had a small gynae procedure yesterday. It might have been ‘routine’ for the clinical staff but it was a pretty extreme experience for me and way more painful than I was expecting. At one point one of the assisting nurses told me to ‘do yoga breathing’ as she could see I was struggling with... Continue Reading →| babycrowyoga
The government has introduced the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, as set out in the King’s Speech. This will be the biggest public health intervention in a generation – breaking the cycle of addiction and disadvantage and putting us on track …| Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre
By David Tuller, DrPH| Trial By Error
Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for another reason, be it surgery, cancer treatment, or following an accident| The Mirror
The coroner in Maeve's case has made the situation for everyone living with this devastating and potentially deadly illness| Canary
Thursday 8 August was Severe ME Day. After eleven years of annual events marking it, advocacy only reinforced just how little has changed.| Canary
New figures show how companies are profiteering through more creeping NHS privatisation - this time over mental health bed provision.| Canary
An excerpt from Patients First: How to Save the NHS by Lord Turnberg. Click on the cover to learn more The whole edifice of the NHS heavily depends on how we care for people in the community. Social care – provided in care homes and at home – overlaps with community care, including district nursings The post SOCIAL CARE AND CARE IN THE COMMUNITY [How to fix the NHS] appeared first on Hawksmoor Publishing.| Hawksmoor Publishing
Parking chaos at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen regularly sees NHS staff arriving at work an hour early just so they're more likely to find a space while people are fined just for trying to get to a medical appointment on time| Wales Online
Prof Clare Bambra and Prof Michael Marmot gave evidence at the Covid-19 Inquiry in its first week.| Chronicle Live
There were "serious errors" on the part of the state in the run-up to Covid-19 - including failing to take inequality into account.| Chronicle Live
Health bosses are pushing for pregnant women to ensure they get vital vaccinations.| Chronicle Live
By David Tuller, DrPH Last month, Jonathan Edwards, an emeritus professor of medicine at University College London and an advocate for patients with ME/CFS, ...| Virology Blog
NHS England has now confirmed its patient data, managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis, was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3rd June. According to the BBC some of that data has bee…| Your Front Page For Information Governance News
Stephen Hawking, renowned physicist and vocal defender of disability rights has passed at the age of 76. In addition to being a rock star in the scientific community, he served as a living reminder of the potential of the human mind given the physical access necessary for disabled people to thrive in their given careers. […]| Crutches and Spice
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I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be.| Wayne Myers
“To be clear,” wrote Richard Murray and Siva Anandaciva last year in the Health Service Journal (The Wretchedness of NHS Financial Planning, July 2023 [£]), “this is not fraud.” Richard was then Ch…| The Policy Sketchbook
Midwifery in the UK is very different to midwifery in Malawi, and to midwifery in many other countries. For those who have grown up in the UK with the NHS, there is a general acceptance that healthcare is freely available, and an acceptance that the system is under a great deal of pressure and there are often significant delays. For… The post Midwifery in the UK appeared first on Walking With You.| Walking With You
Children's Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin say they are currently treating less than 20 patients at their Gender Endocrinology Service| Irish Mirror