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By EMMA NELSON FOR MAILONLINE Published: 10:20 GMT, 15 November 2024 | Updated: 17:21 GMT, 15 November 2024 A 31 year-old mother of-two has warned slimmers against buying weight loss medication from non-medics, after a miniscule dose of a counterfit jab landed her in hospital with stomach pains ‘worse than childbirth’. Nicole Wright, from North Ayrshire […]
Kim Leadbeater criticises Streeting over assisted dying bill comments, implying he’s ignoring ministerial neutrality policy Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who has tabled the private member’s bill on assisted dying that will be debated two weeks tomorrow, has said she is “disappointed” by Wes Streeting, the health secretary, saying the new law could cut funding […]
BBC/Brijesh Patel Roy Pollitt thought his late wife was being treated by a doctor rather than a physician associate A man whose wife died after a drain was mistakenly left in her abdomen for 21 hours has condemned the increased use of physician associates (PAs) within the National Health Service. Susan Pollitt’s inquest concluded her […]
Your support helps us to tell the story Read more From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American […]
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have announced budget reforms for NHS Credit: Shutterstock: Martin Suker A new budget will be approved to hopefully quash some of the negative renown attached to the NHS in what Labour ministers term as a system that might be “broken not beaten.” Prime Minister, Keir Starmer says that the budget […]
Keir Starmer refuses to rule out raising national insurance contributions Your support helps us to tell the story Read more This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support […]
The value of the UK’s private healthcare market rose to a record £12.4bn last year as long NHS waiting lists fuelled demand from individuals and the health service paid for nearly £3.5bn of procedures to help ease the care backlog. As private medical insurance boomed, total revenues generated in the independent healthcare sector hit an […]
Streeting revives claims that some patients facing avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current NHS failings Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has revived claims that some patients are receiving a “death sentence” because of the problems with the NHS. Speaking at a health centre in east London, where he was launching the consultation on the future […]
Jeannie Ambrose Jeannie Ambrose, one of about 1,000 affected patients, says Enhertu should be made available on the NHS More than a thousand patients with advanced breast cancer are being denied a drug that can keep them alive for longer. It is already available in 19 countries in Europe – including in Scotland – but […]