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Despite popularity of weight loss jabs, more Britons are going abroad for surgery, analysis suggestsA booming trade in medical tourism for weight loss surgery is placing patients at risk and needs urgent regulation, experts have warned.Despite the grow…
Exclusive: ‘Deeply concerning’ oversight as government fails to act on recommendations made after victim’s deathThe voices of women who have died at the hands of a partner or former partner are being ignored and the government is failing to heed warnin…
UK Biobank project to share 1bn images of organs, blood vessels and bones to help study ageing and ill healthScientists expect to gain unprecedented insights into human ageing and the earliest signs of disease after scanning 100,000 people from head to…
Exclusive: Labour fighting for survival of NHS, health secretary tells MPs as he prepares to meet BMAWes Streeting has said resident doctors’ strikes would be “a gift to Nigel Farage” before a meeting with the British Medical Association this week wher…
Energy secretary says it is not clear if opposition have any net zero policy As Rowena Mason revealed recently, No 10 has issued guidance that in effect bans civil servants from any level of speaking at events where journalists are present.Today the Ti…
As members vote to strike for a 29% pay rise, newly elected chair of UK’s main doctors union says he is no party lackeyIf things had turned out differently, Tom Dolphin would now be a Labour MP, sitting on the government’s backbenches and supporting We…
Exclusive: Latest poll comes as Wes Streeting to meet BMA to avert ‘unnecessary and unfair strikes’Wes Streeting will meet representatives from the British Medical Association this week as he looks to avert five days of strikes by resident doctors.The …
Exclusive: Tom Dolphin says rise needed to redress real-terms earnings loss since 2008 and strikes could last yearsResident doctors’ 29% pay claim is non-negotiable, reasonable and easily affordable for the NHS, the new leader of the medical profession…
Study shows such young people have higher risk of arriving at paediatric ICU severely ill and have worse outcomesMinority ethnic children and children from deprived backgrounds across the UK are more likely to die following admission to intensive care …
George Findlay resigns from ‘hugely demanding job’ amid police investigation into deaths of more than 90 patientsThe chief executive of an NHS hospital trust where police are investigating the possible manslaughter of more than 90 patients, is to step …