East Sussex GPs and sports centre join forces
Mark Norman BBC South East Health Correspondent Getty Images The combined centre hopes to offer physical activity-focused health and wellbeing services A group of GP practices in Sussex has joined…
Care of 800 Addenbrooke’s patients reviewed amid surgeon concerns
Katy Prickett BBC News, Cambridgeshire Jozef Hall/BBC Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital raised concerns about care provided by their colleague The care received by 800 patients at a world-renowned NHS hospital…
Isle of Man Parliament passes assisted dying bill
BBC Proposed laws to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to choose to end their own lives have been agreed by the Manx parliament. It…
Who can get a Covid booster this spring and what do private jabs cost?
A number of High Street chemists and private clinics sell and administer the Pfizer Covid vaccine directly to the public. The cost per single dose varies but is typically between…
UK draws up new disease-threat watch list
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Oropouche virus, spread by biting midges and some mosquitoes, is on the list The UK has a new watch list of…
Scans in shopping centres and AI
Alison Holt Social affairs editor BBC Phil Brown was able to get an ultrasound scan quickly and easily in a Barnsley shopping centre “That was really quick – straight in,…
What are the problems at the heart of its failures?
Michael Buchanan Social Affairs Correspondent BBC By the entrance to Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness sits a sculpture of a moon with 11 stars. It is a memorial to the…
Princess Beatrice describes daughter’s premature birth as ‘humbling’
Princess Beatrice has described the premature birth of her daughter as “humbling”. Her daughter Athena Elizabeth Rose was born several weeks premature at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 22…
Lancaster baby’s death due to midwives’ gross failures, coroner rules
Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News PA Media Ida Lock died a week after she suffered serious brain injuries around the time of her delivery A newborn baby died…
Lives at risk due to medical scan mistakes, says ombudsman
Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News Getty Images Repeated failures in how CTs, X-rays and other medical scans are being interpreted are leading to avoidable patient deaths and delays in…