Private health companies such as BUPA are being granted access to NHS records of 'sensitive or identifiable' patient data in return for a £140 fee, according to the Guardian. Andy Burnham, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said patients would be "appalled to learn that the Government appears to be auctioning off their perso...
A number of Britain's most senior doctors have voiced their support for assisted dyin...
A Lib Dem health minister has urged the Government to push ahead with plans to enforc...
Jeremy Hunt will today signal the end of written prescriptions in the health service,...
Medical assessments for disability benefits claimants are “cruel” and distort medical...
Nigel Mills said he had seen ATOS assesments that were "clearly wrong" from his own assesments. "Clearly in my constituency casework I have people coming to me re...
Health Care Professions Council press release Paramedic struck off for engaging in sexual activity on a call Paramedic John Gale has been struck off the HCPC R...
Jeremy Hunt said he did not believe one of David Cameron’s inner circle had called Tory activists “swivel-eyed loons”, and said the views of the grassroots were “inc...
BMJ press release Francis inquiry “has let the government off the hook” says former NHS chief executive Report “has enabled politicians to indulge in characteri...
BMJ press release Doctors are missing coeliac disease, warns senior GP, whose daughter has the condition “As doctors, we are missing many diagnoses of coeliac ...
Tom Greatrex said disability benefit assessments were “crude” and caused distress, responding to comments by a doctor who worked for assessment contractor Atos....
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