Its not a nice world out there: Birth rates hit a 50-year low

Papworth invented a technique, called Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD), for retrieving hearts from donors whose life support systems have been switched off, which now makes up about a quarter of all heart transplants in the UK. The work was, however, funded by the hospital’s charity, rather than the NHS.

New measures to make it easier for NHS employers in England to take on newly qualified nurses and midwives have been announced by the government. The move comes after warnings there are up to three times more graduates than vacancies in some areas of the health service. The aim is to free up trusts in…

Love Island’s Dr Alex George believes his ADHD and OCD diagnoses “completely changed” his life. The former A&E medic, who grew up in Carmarthenshire but lives in London, wants improved waiting times for assessments after paying thousands of pounds for private ADHD and autism tests. In his new book, he discussed getting diagnosed and said…

A 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…