Paramedics and NHS staff hold a picket line in Coventry Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said that December’s A&E and ambulance waiting times would likely be “the worst ever”. He added: “We think that somewhere between
Scotland’s health service is in crisis as patients are being treated outside hospitals and in offices. Up and down the country NHS hospitals are feeling the strain of increasing demand, and now A&E departments in Scotland have run out of space for
A bungling GP surgery accidentally texted hundreds of patients telling them they had aggressive lung cancer instead of wishing them Merry Christmas. The message was sent on December 23 to patients registered with Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. In the
A fifth see less of family and friends due to money pressures, Macmillan Cancer Support found. Of those, half felt the struggle to pay bills was affecting their physical or mental health and almost a quarter said it was putting a strain on
Patients who had LASIK eye vision corrective surgery — or Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis — have been weighing in on the recent draft guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) connected to the surgery. The FDA’s draft has been causing controversy among