Astonishing early reluctance to call Covid civil emergency – inquiry/in /by
An expert says Welsh government felt Covid "wasn't a civil emergency" in early March 2020.
Hospital patient given ‘corridor care’ for 14 hours/in /by
A patient at a hospital experiencing "record admissions" says he had no access to water.
Health staff start court fight over long Covid/in /by
They say they are disabled after catching Covid at work, with no protection from employers.
German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times/in /by
Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal.
Unions back improved NHS senior doctor pay offer/in /by
Consultants in England to vote on new deal after rejecting previous offer by narrow margin.
NHS trust admits failures over death of baby boy/in /by
A coroner hears hospital staff failed to give Zachary Taylor-Smith's mum antibiotics during labour.
Cautious backing for rise in physician associates/in /by
The doctors’ union is concerned about patient safety because of a new law regulating those roles.
Consultants and specialist doctors vote to strike/in /by
Doctors will walk out in April over "extreme pressures" and "unsafe staffing levels".
Man hails ‘quality of life’ drug available on NHS/in /by
Ross Cunliffe says "the right thing has been done" in making daratumumab available on the NHS.
‘I was left lying in my own urine’/in /by
A 73-year-old man says he was denied pain relief and was left lying in a bed soaked with urine.