Health

The Royal College of Nursing has announced that nursing staff across London will support protests on Thursday, 5th June over the Government’s decision to refuse a pay rise this year to most NHS staff. Nurses have been angered by the ...

General practice cannot reached its full potential in the face of continuing under-investment in the profession, the cutting of MPIG funding, the problems recruiting and retaining GPs and the lack of investment in premises, GP leaders have warned. Backing a ...

As part of International Clinical Trials Day, on 20th May 2014, The Royal London Hospital (RLH), part of Barts Health NHS Trust, is inviting local residents to come and discover how medical research is transforming lives and how they can ...

Emdad Rahman reviews Where shall we walk today? Walking the Pennine Way, by Dave Marriott. As an avid walker I particularly enjoyed reading Dave Marriott’s excellent book recently. Fifty-two year old Dave grew up in the 1960s in a Derbyshire ...

In the first full financial year since this Coalition Government took office (2011/12), the NHS cut £5.8 billion from its spending. Some of these “efficiency savings” were made by finding cheaper prices for things the NHS had to buy, but ...

This time last year, a six month pilot programme at the Royal London hospital came to an end. The pilot involved offering all patients in the adult critical care unit the opportunity to have their blood tested for HIV. Out of ...

Two local hospitals – the Royal London and Mile End – are looking for patient panels. No, they aren’t cladding their walls in calm wood: they’re looking for patients (old, new or potential) to join human panels to “raise and ...

Of the 50,000 women and 400 men diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK, an unknown number will go on to develop secondary breast cancer – cancer that has spread beyond the breast or armpit to other parts ...

Few people who find themselves having an MRI scan like to complain: after all, if you’re having an MRI scan, it’s probably saving your life – or at least helping you to improve the quality of your life. However, some ...

Dr Mark Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association (BMA), has warned that the NHS is struggling to cope with heavy financial pressure, mostly imposed by government policy, and with the aftermath of the Mid-Staffs scandal. Although much of the ...