Image caption, Sam Hodkinson needs a pension payment soon, after retiring because of ill-health Claire Ellison BBC News Society team A former police officer who retired early because of breast cancer and is owed extra pension, says she fears she may not live to see the money paid out. Sam Hodkinson is one of tens […]
Thousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease. Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad. It is designed to match patients with forthcoming trials using mRNA technology, as found in current […]
Image source, Erroll SmithImage caption, Darnell Smith died at the age of 22 in hospital Sharon Barbour Health correspondent Nat Wright Health producer IT system failures have been linked to the deaths of three patients and more than 100 instances of serious harm at NHS hospital trusts in England, BBC News has found. A Freedom […]
A target to start treatment within 18 weeks for most NHS patients in England will be hit within five years, Labour has promised. The party made the pledge as it set out details of how it would start making inroads into the backlog. This includes getting the NHS to do more out-of-hours, and making greater […]
Image source, Merope Mills An initiative allowing rapidly deteriorating patients and their families to seek a second opinion will play a role in “changing the culture of the NHS”, Merope Mills has said. Ms Mills began her campaign for “Martha’s rule” after her daughter Martha, 13, died of sepsis in 2021. Speaking on BBC R4’s […]
A cancer charity is warning people to do more to protect themselves from the sun as the number of melanoma skin-cancer cases in the UK continues to rise. Cancer Research UK predicts there will be a record 20,800 cases diagnosed this year – up from a yearly average of 19,300 between 2020 and 2022. Its […]
1Xtra DJ Kaylee Golding has revealed that her grandad was among the victims of the infected blood scandal. A public inquiry published on Monday found decades of failure and denial meant thousands of patients had been affected after being given contaminated blood. Among them was Graham, who died from illnesses linked to these treatments when […]
Image source, Sarah DaviesImage caption, Alberto Almeida’s life has been saved twice because of blood donations Alberto Almeida treasures every day with his family because he could bleed to death at any moment due to a rare illness. Donated blood has saved his life twice in the past year, after he suffered severe haemorrhages caused […]
Dominic Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News Nat Wright Producer, BBC News Image caption, Only a genetic test will tell Carys if she has inherited the Brca1 gene from her mother, Rachael A 17-year-old has been rejected by the Army, despite passing all the selection tests, because two members of her family have had breast cancer. […]
A man discovered a medical specimen bag had been left inside his stomach after his hernia surgery, the BBC has found. The surgeon who carried out the procedure, at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in 2016, also left behind part of Tom Hadrys’s bowel that had been cut out during the operation. According […]
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