Hanish Abdulla explores the imminent use of AI in healthcare systems. The National Health Service... The post AI in the NHS: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities appeared first on The Gryphon.| The Gryphon
Mask mandates are creeping back into NHS hospitals while the WHO has now decreed that face masks must be a core response in future 'public health events'. Dr Gary Sidley says we must resist this harmful intervention. The post The Mask Pushers Are At It Again: They Just Never Give Up, Do They? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.| The Daily Sceptic
Oct 05, 2025 There was only one thing I could write about this week, after my 5-hour visit to A&E on Thursday. The awful treatment of women in our health system, and the mess of the NHS. My health is my wealth; this should be the same for everyone. If we are ill, we cannot […] The post <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-175320446" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The State of the NHS – A Shocking Case Study – me</a> appeared first on Mrs MummyPenny.| Mrs MummyPenny
MORE than 100,000 nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers walked off the job across Aotearoa, New Zealand, on Thursday in one of the largest coordinated strikes in the country’s history. The unprecedented mobilisation, dubbed a ‘mega strike’ by organisers, brought together more than 60,000 school teachers, 40,000 nurses and medical specialists, and around […] The post Workers rise up across New Zealand in historic ‘mega strike’ appeared first on Workers Revo...| Workers Revolutionary Party
The post Major NHS AI trial delivers unprecedented time and cost savings in productivity drive appeared first on Microsoft UK Stories.| Microsoft UK Stories
HAMAS is intensifying its security campaign against armed gangs and militias in Gaza that collaborate with the Israeli military, officials say, aiming to restore full control and stability across the strip. A senior security spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said yesterday that Hamas will soon launch its largest operation yet to dismantle remaining armed […] The post Hamas intensifies its security campaign against collaborators appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
Authorities in Gaza have confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces stole body parts from killed Palestinians during the two-year genocidal war on the besieged territory. After Israel recently returned 120 mutilated bodies of Palestinian abductees as part of the ceasefire that took effect on October 10, medical examinations revealed that the occupying forces had removed […] The post HARVEST OF HORROR! – systematic organ harvesting by Israeli occupation appeared first on Workers Revoluti...| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to them had been held at the notorious Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert. This military camp hit the headlines last year when photos and testimonies were published […] The post 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said yesterday that he is confident the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold. ‘We are determined to see the agreement through to its end,’ Hayya said in an interview with Al-Qahera News in the Egyptian capital Cairo, adding that the agreement ‘will survive because we want it […] The post ‘Ceasefire agreement will hold!’ – insists Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
As the NHS releases the latest results from its Microsoft 365 Copilot trial, Jacob West, Microsoft UK’s Managing Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences and a former NHS and Cabinet Office adviser, reflects on AI’s potential to deliver the biggest digital transformation in healthcare yet.| Microsoft UK Stories
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite the continued deadly strikes being carried out by Israeli Occupation Force troops in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The Gaza Government Media Office yesterday reported that Israel has killed at […] The post Israeli regime deliberately violating ‘peace deal’ since very first day appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans healthcare service in Catalonia (Barcelona region), Spain. Transit is respected across the world for being a service that is leading the field in … Continue reading Trans health waiting lists are a political choice| Growing Up Transgender
Lila Marsland was found dead aged just five, hours after her family were told she had tonsillitis| Manchester Evening News
Lila was misdiagnosed by A&E medics who sent the family home - she died in her sleep| Chronicle Live
Despite the Cass Review and the Supreme Court ruling in April 2025 the problem of gender activism in the NHS is deep rooted and seems impervious to reason or evidence. The two biggest unions representing doctors and nurses cling onto the discredited approach of gender affirmation. The BMA claims a ‘neutral’ position on Cass while […] The post Gender activism in the NHS appeared first on Transgender Trend.| Transgender Trend
HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his actions part of a ‘fascist policy of collective punishment and political manipulation of humanitarian files’. In a statement on Thursday, the Islamic Resistance Movement said Netanyahu’s threats to delay the reopening […] The post ‘A fascist policy of collective punishment’ – Hamas accuses Israel’s PM! appeared...| Workers Revolutionary Party
US President Donald Trump basked in adulation on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was hailed as ‘the president of peace’, even as regime lawmakers laughed at his jokes, applauded his idle boasts, and rose for more standing ovations than one could count. Behind the theatrics, Trump’s address was marked by wilful distortion and […] The post Idle boasts and blatant lies: Trump’s Knesset speech appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
N a moment where the pain of siege merged with tears of joy and victory, Gaza emerged on Monday from beneath the rubble to welcome its freed prisoners, sons of the city returning from Israeli jails. It was a deeply symbolic scene that rekindled the essence of freedom Palestinians had long dreamed of and reminded […] The post Gaza Rises From The Rubble And Celebrates Its Real Heroes! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
First speaker at the rally at the end of the march in Whitehall was Malik Mohammed from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘For two years, Gaza has lived in genocide and this most horrible thing, parents burying their children. Yes, a ceasefire has been announced. But we will not stop marching until there […] The post ‘We will not stop until there is a permanent ceasefire!’ appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS said ‘the lists of prisoners required to be released’ as part of a ceasefire agreement were exchanged yesterday in Egypt. Taher al-Nunu, who is part of the Hamas delegation in Sharm el-Sheikh, was quoted in a statement published by the group as saying that the mediators are ‘making great efforts to remove any obstacles […] The post Prisoner release lists exchanged appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
A coroner ruled the death of 17-year-old Leia Sampson-Grimbly preventable, exposing fatal delays in NHS gender care and demanding urgent reform.| TransVitae
As party conference season concludes and MPs and peers return to Westminster, attention will turn to the next major date in the political calendar: 26 November – budget day. In the midst of what will no doubt be ever-increasing levels of speculation about what actions could be taken, two realities will be at the forefront... Read more » The post Frontline NHS services have no money to spare – here’s where to find it appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
The British National Health Service (NHS) has come under fire for releasing guidelines that allegedly […] 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 grado parlando di sostegno familiare ...| FeministPost
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
