A catalogue of poor care led to criticism of the health watchdogs set up to protect NHS patients when things don’t go according to plan. A report on the scandal of mother and baby deaths which occurred at the hospital was released last week and found that at least 11 […]

A new government proposal would mean many victims of medical negligence won’t be able to afford to issue court proceedings, including a young girl who was left with severe brain damage when doctors failed to diagnose her case of meningitis. This is just one of the numerous case studies that have […]

A devastated son wants to know why he found his mother dead in her living room, when she had called a medical helpline to request help over 9 hours beforehand. Ann Walters, 61, had a hole in her heart and lived at her home in St Piran’s Avenue, Baffins, Portsmouth, where […]

To ensure that smaller minorities were not offended, NHS staff were forced to fill out a 7 page form that also included a suicide risk and human rights assessment. In an illustration of the politically correct bureaucracy strangling the health service, staff had to consider the possible human rights implications […]

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt recently announced that a study will be taking place into avoidable deaths. Investigators will scour through the case files of around 2,000 patients who died last year to confirm if there was more that could and should have been done to save their lives. After announcing the […]

A recent Freedom of Information request has revealed that the NHS Fife is facing a total of £17 million in negligence claims, including some from its own staff. On the 17th December 2014, the health board were faced with 116 active cases, 31 of which are being lodged by its own […]

Independent investigators have been brought in to look at allegations of overspending and fraud at the hospital Broadmoor high-security hospital looks after some of the most violent criminals in the country and provides services for over 20,000 patients per year in total. However, the hospital is now in the middle […]

Rob Galloway, an A&E Consultant at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, has given a very worrying account of life ‘inside’ the NHS, in an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Mr. Galloway published the letter online on Wednesday 7th January, and the media quickly […]

Around 55,000 Patients have benefited from the Cancer Drugs Fund, which was introduced by the Conservatives in 2011. Four years ago the Cancer Drugs Fund was set up to give cancer patients access to expensive cancer drugs, many of which helped to prolong the life of these patients by a […]