Weight-loss surgeon told patient to ‘eat, eat, eat’/in /by
Turkish surgeon Ogün Erşen told an undercover BBC reporter she could qualify for gastric sleeve surgery if she ate "some snacks".
NHS ‘thought St Albans cancer patient was from Traveller community’/in /by
Angela Devlin, 26, says she was not offered a check as it was assumed she would not have an address.
Bariatric tourism care costs NHS more than actual surgery – study/in /by
Data from five hospitals shows the NHS spent £560,000 on 35 patients in 2022 after surgery abroad.
BBC’s Glenn Campbell on shock of brain cancer diagnosis/in /by
BBC Scotland's political editor says the discovery of a tumour was devastating - but that he's been lucky.
I noticed a bulging lump sensation in my vagina/in /by
When Natashja Wilson noticed symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse she had no idea what was happening.
Dog attacks: Victims double since pandemic, surgeon says/in /by
An NHS consultant surgeon in West Sussex says he is treating dog attack victims every day.
Oxfordshire diabetic ‘in limbo’ after benefits rejection/in /by
Ashley Hall has also been diagnosed with bile acid malabsorption, which leaves him in constant pain.
Why parents are reliving their baby loss nightmares/in /by
An inquiry is under way to ensure the deaths of three babies are not brushed off as isolated tragedies.
Long Covid GP consultations ‘cost £23m’/in /by
A study examined nearly a million health records
Life with a stoma: ‘It’s not a bag for life, it’s a bag for living’/in /by
Stephen Blakely hopes his TikTok content will help others with any stigma of using a stoma.