Month: February 2016

HIV charities from Liverpool (Sahir Trust) to Leicestershire (LASS) to London have come together with health professional bodies, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), and British HIV Association to launch a new national […]

NHS trusts in England are on course to be

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoin to a hacker who seized control of the hospital’s computer systems and would give back access only when the money was paid, the hospital’s chief […]

Three wards at Leicester’s Royal Infirmary have closed after 14 cancer patients were diagnosed with swine flu. The patients, who are suffering with the H1N1 strain of influenza, have been isolated to avoid an outbreak, […]

A new genetic test for heart conditions which are passed down through families has been developed by researchers funded by your donations. The international team of researchers, led by Professor Stuart Cook, in Singapore, Imperial […]

An ex-medical technician has been indicted on charges of tampering with narcotics at a Colorado hospital, leading authorities to urge nearly 3,000 people who had surgery there to be tested for blood-borne diseases, federal prosecutors […]

More than 1,000 NHS patients in England in the past four years have suffered from medical mistakes so serious they should never happen, according to analysis by the Press Association. The so-called never events included […]

The Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, is currently ‘unable to accommodate any routine elective surgery’ A hospital has been forced to cancel all routine surgical operations due to severe pressures on its A&E department, the […]

The 16 February 2016 sees the publication of the first year’s work of the UK stakeholders’ platform established by the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to maximise healthcare professional and patient involvement in […]

We joke about Mr Hunt having shares in Australian emigration, but really this is no laughing matter. Record amounts are leaving the country – or the medical profession altogether [The news] of the government