Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Prime Minister received a grilling from an eight-year-old today who complained about how long he'd had to wait on a recent trip to hospital.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dental practices in parts of Somerset are having to advertise for patients because of a surplus of NHS places.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Moving a laboratory from Lincoln hospital could put lives at risk, a leading micro-biologist warns.
This is Bath (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nhs personal trainers are being drafted into the Bath area to help people adopt a healthier lifestyle. Five health trainers have been taken on to offer free one-to-one sessions to people on subjects from healthy eating through coping ...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Prime Minister received a grilling from an eight-year-old today who complained about how long he'd had to wait on a recent trip to hospital.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thousands more children and adults with type 1 diabetes could benefit from 'life-changing' insulin pumps, following new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance issued on Wednesday 23rd July 2008.[i] The new guidance recommends insulin pumps for children younger than 12 years with type 1 diabetes when doctors believe conventional insulin injections are impractical or inappropriate....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
'Whistleblower's charter' for revalidating competence of junior doctors finally accepted by medics
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Cross: The trouble with being a supersite is that it tends to make you slow, bureaucratic and a big fat target
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thousands of heart patients could be denied life-saving treatment after the NHS ruled yesterday that it costs too much.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE region’s NHS trusts providing acute mental health services were rated by the Healthcare Commission yesterday.
icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
A MAJOR bungle in privatising the home supply of oxygen to thousands of patients has cost the NHS in Wales £6m a year – three times the price that was originally estimated, it is revealed today.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
An outsourced ambulance service asks the NHS for £300,000 to pay staff wages, the BBC learns.
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Royal College of Psychiatrists welcomes this detailed review of NHS acute inpatient mental health services by the Healthcare Commission. It is encouraging to see that two-fifths of trusts exceeded the minimum level of service provision. However, it is disappointing that no trusts were scored excellent on all four of the key criteria against [...]
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
The Times says the "Asprox computer virus" is infecting British web sites, but actually, it's just another escalating round of SQL injection attacks
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Chief Medical officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson declared last week that ethnic minority doctors in the NHS faced systematic racism, prejudice and harrassment, saying many doctors’ careers have been impeded due to this. In his annual report on the state of the nation’s health he called for a “clear committment” to tackle racism in [...]
