Up to 20,000 patients in the UK are to be given medical cannabis over a two-year period in an initiative that aims to create the largest body of evidence on the drug in...
October 30th, 2019
National Health Service (NHS) leaders in the UK have gone to war on homeopathy by attempting to have the practice blacklisted amid fears it is fuelling anti-vax...
Hospitals in rural and coastal Britain are struggling to recruit senior medical staff, leaving many worryingly “under-doctored”, The Guardian reports a major new...Weekly Roundup
Maidstone Hospital is taking the step to ensure patients can still be treated in the event of Brexit causing severe traffic congestion in Kent. The hospital is close to...Weekly Roundup
Thousands of women in the UK were taken to hospital with chronic urinary tract infections in the past year, according to National Health Service (NHS) figures that...Weekly Roundup
Mental patients in the UK are at risk of suicide because so many of the units they are treated in are dangerously decrepit. The Guardian reports that this is according...International
Transgender patients can choose whether they want to be treated on male or female wards, new UK National Health Service (NHS) guidance stipulates. NHS England says...
October 2nd, 2019
Julia Patterson recalls clearly the moment she decided she had to quit two things she treasured – practising medicine and working in the UK's National Health Service...
An Ethiopian woman who was denied potentially life-saving cancer treatment for six weeks amid confusion about whether she should be charged by the UK’s National...
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...
