Neglect a patient and go to prison: Dramatic warning to NHS staff in major review
NHS staff and organisations that wilfully or recklessly harm patients should face new criminal penalties, a major review said yesterday.
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Care home manager dubbed ‘Darth Vader’ because she was so cruel to dementia sufferers is jailed for horrendous abuse of residents
A care home boss branded a female ‘Darth Vader’ for turning the lives of dementia sufferers into a ‘nightmare’ was today jailed for 18 months.
The postcode lottery of NHS dementia care: Patients 18 times more likely to have treatment funded in some parts of England than in others
Sufferers of debilitating conditions like dementia and Parkinsons face a postcode lottery on whether the NHS will pay for their care.
‘Still Alice’ prescribed to patients to help beat dementia
The novel which inspired the award-winning Hollywood film Still Alice is to be prescribed to patients who have dementia, under a new scheme for libraries.
Screening call as liver deaths soar
Deaths from liver disease have risen 400% in the last 40 years, according to a health charity which is calling for early screening.
Training cuts could harm patients, doctors warn
Proposals to shorten in-job training for qualified doctors in the UK could seriously compromise patient care and safety, leading doctors have warned.
The very active sex lives of the over-80s
SENIOR citizens are still enjoying active sex lives, according to the first major study of sexual health in the over-80s.
I was born with no womb – but now I’ve given birth to twins, says mother who feared that ‘no man will want me’
A woman who was genetically born a man and was told she would never become a mother has given birth to twin girls.
Companies report ‘no interest in care insurance’
There are no plans for any insurance products to help people plan ahead for their care needs in old age, leading companies have told the BBC.
NHS now ‘dependent’ on foreign doctors, with 3,000 more in last year
Statistics from the General Medical Council show that an extra 7,500 medics have joined the medical register in the last year, around 40 per cent of whom were trained abroad.