Tories tell migrants: Pay your NHS bill or we’ll deport you
In theory, unpaid NHS bills can affect immigration status. The Home Office can take into account NHS debts…
A compassionate society does not kill people
As a nurse I sat in cancer wards with patients as they came to terms with a terminal…
Assisted dying to go ahead even if NHS not ready, Tories warn
Assisted dying would come into force within four years of MPs passing it into law “regardless of whether…
Hospitals are overburdened with referrals – this is why they should push back
Most of those referrals will be “appropriate”, such as for those requiring a joint replacement for an arthritic…
Critically ill patient threatened over hospital parking ticket in Hull
Mr Matthews, a retired architect from Elloughton, East Yorkshire, said the family were paying £7.20 a week for…
Fat jabs drive NHS to spend twice as much treating diabetes
Ozempic and Mounjaro have helped drive a doubling in NHS spending on diabetes treatments. The cost of medicines…
Alzheimer’s drug could save thousands in care costs
Corinne Mills, the deputy chief executive at Alzheimer’s Society, said: “Disease-modifying treatments mark the beginning of a new…
Father died after doctors ‘dismissed headaches as ear infection’
After three days, his son Toby was forced to switch his father’s life support machine off. Toby, a…
Prostate cancer patients urged to share medical records
Prof Peter Johnson, the NHS national clinical director for cancer, said: “We’ll be contacting over half a million…
Why coming off psychiatric drugs is costing me hundreds of pounds
Dr Horowitz also experienced panic and insomnia when withdrawing from antidepressants. It took him years to come off…
NHS eye patients risk going blind as waiting lists grow
Nigel Kirkpatrick, medical director at Newmedica, said these people “may be effectively invisible to the system and therefore…
NHS maternity claims reach record high after string of scandals
Maternity made up close to £35bn of the total £60bn set aside for future negligence payments, the NHS…