Browsing: patients

When Leigh White remembers her brother Ryan, she thinks of a boy of extraordinary ability who “won five scholarships at 11” including a coveted place at…

GPs are not to blame for A&E attendances (Huge rise in number of people in England’s A&Es for coughs or hiccups, 31 December).‪England’s general practice meets…

Patients are collapsing in hospitals unseen by staff because overcrowding means they are stranded out of sight on corridors, the NHS’s safety watchdog has revealed.Using corridors,…

People with motor neurone disease (MND) are dying waiting for grants to make their homes fit to live in due to a huge backlogs in applications,…

Wrapped in a flashy fur coat she’d found at a thrift store for the occasion, Hannah Goetz blew out the candles on her favorite red velvet…

The finding that one in seven GP referrals are getting lost, with harm to most of the patients involved (Thousands of patients in England at risk…

Reporting Highlights Suing the Poor: At one community health center in Kansas, many patients sued were uninsured and made so little money they qualified for discounted…

One in seven people in England who need hospital care are not receiving it because their GP referral is lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient…

In the early hours of 28 May 2005, Isabelle Dinoire woke up in a pool of blood. After fighting with her family the night before, she…

One of my children is irate at my deletion of an important school email. I claim that so many useless emails rain into my inbox that…