A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel. University Hospitals Sussex has said […]
A major NHS IT provider faces a penalty of just over £6m for failures which led to a cyber attack and the theft of nearly 83,000 medical records. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been […]
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has urged people not to buy fake weight loss injections – as shortages of Ozempic are expected to continue into next year. The association warned of a possible “explosion in […]
Sensitive data stolen from an NHS provider in a cyber attack has apparently been published online. NHS England says a criminal group claims it has released patient information hacked from Synnovis, which provides pathology services […]
Health Secretary Steve Barclay is to ask judges to rule whether all 48 hours of the next nurse strike is lawful. The government wants the High Court to assess whether Tuesday – the last day […]
Doctors say it could take months to process mounting piles of medical paperwork caused by a continuing cyber-attack on an NHS supplier. One out-of-hours GP says patient care is being badly affected as staff enter […]
A health worker has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison with intent to endanger life after a child died at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The 27-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday and has been suspended […]
An NHS consultant anaesthetist who was caught by police while arranging to sexually abuse a seven-year-old girl has been jailed for 28 months. Mark Carrington, 49, of Radlett, Hertfordshire, admitted arranging the commission of a […]
A 14-year-old transgender boy is starting legal proceedings against NHS England over delays to gender reassignment treatment. The teenager has waited over a year for referral to the only NHS gender clinic for children and […]
A nurse accused of murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of another 10 is in due in court. Lucy Letby had previously been arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into […]
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