Northern lights

Nurses help hospitals to top England's league of excellence.

Murder claim doctor guilty of misconduct

Consultant paediatrician David Southall was today barred from any child protection work for three years after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct for accusing a father of murdering his two baby sons on the basis of a television documentary.

Labour ‘fixing’ medical student intake

The Tories have accused the government of trying to "fix" the social class intake at some of Britain's top universities after it emerged that funding was being provided for medical students with lower than the standard minimum A-level grades.