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Covid inquiry told Treasury blocked request for 10,000 NHS beds
Posted onCovid inquiry Boris Johnson’s government blocked a request to fund another 10,000 hospital beds at the height of the Covid pandemic, the chief executive of NHS England has said. Amanda Pritchard told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry the decision, made by the Treasury in July 2020, had been “very disappointing”. Extra beds and staff would have…
Chickenpox vaccines for children on NHS starts across UK
Posted onPhilippa Roxby and Smitha MundasadHealth reporters Getty Images All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The vaccine will be combined with the existing MMR jab, given at 12 and 18 months of age, which already helps protect against measles, mumps and rubella….
Birmingham doctor in court accused of sex assaults on patients
Posted onA doctor has appeared in court accused of more than 40 counts of sexual assault against hospital patients including children. The charges faced by Nathaniel Spencer on Tuesday relate to 38 patients at Royal Stoke University Hospital and Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, between 2017 and 2021. The 38-year-old of Great Hampden Street, Birmingham, appeared at…
Affordable health clinic in Sevier County seeing new patients with expanded access
Posted onGATLINBURG, Tenn. (WVLT) – Affordable healthcare services expanded to Gatlinburg a year ago, and since then, the clinic has seen strong growth in patients needing their services. The Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic expanded to a second location in Gatlinburg last year. They said the need for healthcare and the support from the community had…
Ketamine helped me escape my negative thoughts – then nearly killed me
Posted onRuth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter, BBC News Abbie Abbie first began using ketamine when she was 16 Abbie was 16 years old when she started using ketamine. It was the first time she had felt in control. The negative thoughts that had swamped her mind since a young age began to dissipate. Twelve years…
German doctor jailed for killing 15 of his patients
Posted onA German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients. A court in Berlin on Wednesday found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in line with German privacy rules, guilty of murdering 12 women and three men between September 2021 and July 2024. The authorities believe…
