The Royal College of Nursing has ended its commercial partnership with Teva UK after pressure from Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges. Teva will no longer sponsor the forthcoming nursing event on migraine and headache services….
Hospitals in England are struggling to obtain aspirin, co-codamol and ramipril: medicines used to relieve pain, reduce the risk of blood clots and treat high blood pressure. These aren’t obscure treatments. They’re among the drugs a health service needs to…
Three quarters of GPs say they don’t have enough time to offer preventative healthcare, according to a Royal College of GPs survey of 2,316 doctors across the UK. With surgeries facing heavy demand and appointments often limited to ten minutes,…
NHS boards imposing minimum two-year waits for ADHD and autism assessments aren’t responding to falling need. They’re rationing care by making people wait. Nearly 1 million people in England are now on waiting lists for an ADHD assessment. The average…
Nurses are collapsing during shifts as extreme heat turns hospitals and care homes into dangerous workplaces. The Royal College of Nursing has described conditions as “inhumane and impossible”, while the government continues to postpone the “bigger questions” of climate adaptation…
Millions of adults and children in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS trusts prepare another round of service closures and job cuts. Ministers talk about expanding access, but the workers, funding and services needed to provide…
Black and Asian radiographers are facing growing racist abuse from patients, including being called “monkeys” and “dirty foreigners” and being refused on the basis of their skin colour. A survey of 381 members of the Society of Radiographers found a…
A trade deal struck between Britain and the United States could force the NHS to divert almost £45 billion away from frontline healthcare over the next decade to pay higher prices for medicines, according to analysis published in the British…
An NHS trust has paid out £187,000 in damages after an employment tribunal ruled in favour of seven nurses who campaigned to have a transgender colleague excluded from the women’s changing room. The dispute centred on a transgender woman employed…
The John Lewis chain has announced that it is going into partnership with Randox Health. It will start offering a range of Randox services in its stores, with health checks starting from £295. Naomi Simcock, the head of the John…
