August 21st, 2019The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said social media firms must share the responsibility for the rising spread of measles in the UK as he attacked antivax...
Medical cannabis cannot be approved for use in children with severe epilepsy on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) because there is not enough evidence to prove it...Weekly Roundup
People with cystic fibrosis in Scotland will continue to be denied potentially life-extending drugs after they were rejected for use by the National Health Service...Weekly Roundup
Thousands of people in England at risk of contracting type 2 diabetes will receive wearable tech to help monitor their exercise level, The Guardian reports the National...
August 7th, 2019Complaints about UK National Health Service primary care are on the rise, with many patients opting for private GP consultations, reports The Daily Telegraph. These may...
A deceased UK National Health Service (NHS) consultant could have been charged with manslaughter over the deaths of haemophiliac patients given blood infected with HIV...
July 24th, 2019Doctors in the UK want a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly told they are carrying dangerous mutations linked to...
July 17th, 2019Most patients in the UK who want to see their own GP can no longer get an appointment with them. The Daily Telegraph reports that this is according to figures suggesting...
July 10th, 2019
It’s time for healthcare to be a better LGBT+ ally, writes Duncan Jarvies, multimedia editor at The BMJ.
Jarvies writes:
Women who go on to identify as LGBT+...
A UK patient who demanded to be seen by a "white doctor" at a National Health Service (NHS) A&E and was turned away, then submitted a formal complaint to the...
