So homeopathy can help cure TB? Tell that to my sick patients
When politicians call for homeopathy and other alternative treatments to get government money, they’re promoting quackery and wasting desperately-needed funds
Furness hospital’s ‘lethal mix’ of failings led to deaths of 12, report says
Report finds ‘failures at almost very level’ including midwives on ‘seriously dysfunctional’ maternity ward known as ‘musketeers’ due to their cavalier attitude
Doctors and nurses to record FGM concerns on children’s NHS records
Moves to improve UK response announced amid fears in medical profession after controversial trial of doctor for female genital mutilation
Decision to prosecute doctor for FGM ‘left me with no faith in British justice’
Dr Katrina Erskine attacks CPS after jury clears Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena of subjecting mother to female genital mutilation
A&E helped us through a miscarriage. Then we got a feedback text
At our darkest hour an NHS text asked my wife to rate her A&E experience. It’s hard to describe how crass and inappropriate this is
Doctors Dissected review – an eloquent case for consistent GP care
Britain’s GPs face the questions under Jane Haynes and Martin Scurr’s wonderfully humane examination, writes Kate Kellaway
Farage says UK will have to consider NHS funded by private insurance
Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s comments to BBC reignite 2012 row caused by him saying healthcare should be market-funded
Too many choices, high costs and bureaucracy: British expats grade American healthcare system ‘a pain in the arse’
Moving to the US for work has advantages for British citizens. The healthcare system is not one of them. It’s so bad that some expats fly home for treatment
How do you avoid being a bed-blocker?
Michele Hanson: The NHS does not need the added pressure of elderly patients trapped in hospitals. I plan to stay in my flat, shuffling about on my bum, until I fall off my perch …
Making NHS seven-day service could threaten patients’ safety, say doctors
Plans are unfunded, undefined, unrealistic and would see routine operations cancelled on weekdays, says BMA