‘Hello, how can I save your life?’
When his wife went into labour last year, Leo Hickman delivered the baby himself guided by ambulance dispatcher. Impressed by her calm assurance, he joins her for a day on the 999 frontline
The Sainsbury’s GPs: checkout, then check-up
Hugh Wilson: The future of primary healthcare in Britain, it seems, is down past the deli counter, and opposite the lipstick stand
Anger over peer’s ‘sex and booze’ nurses slur
A Tory peer who branded nurses 'grubby, drunken and promiscuous' during a Lords debate faces a backlash
GPs in standoff with government over longer surgery hours
Health secretary writes to every GP in England urging them to accept plans to extend their surgery opening hours, despite BMA objections
Medical confessions
Ever wondered if doctors are frightened of catching what you've got? What their notes really mean? Or how to get round their receptionist? We asked five doctors to spill the beans
Drug prescriptions for obesity soar to 1.06m
More than 1m prescriptions for obesity drugs were written last year, an eightfold rise in seven years
Hospital refuses plea for hysterectomy on cerebral palsy girl
The decision by a hospital in Essex not to carry out a hysterectomy on a 15-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was welcomed yesterday by charities supporting people with disabilities
England is ‘poor relation’ of NHS devolution
The NHS in England has become the poor relation of the service in other parts of the UK, a patients' group said today
U-turn on eye drug will save the sight of thousands
Thousands of people will be saved from going blind following a U-turn by the government's drug advisory body, which will allow them to get an expensive new treatment on the NHS
More life before death
Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot: Something wonderful is happening: people are living longer, healthier lives. So why don't we hear more about it?