Doctors mull the Government’s long-term strategy for the NHS at emergency meeting and find a dearth of detail as well as concerns with finance initiatives
People with disabilities have fewer rights in one part of the UK than they do in the others. For doctors, it means that basic things to keep them safe, like hand gel and fire doors, are literally out of their reach. By Jennifer Trueland
Health service catering has tended to offer little in the way of either 'health' or 'service', but it's not all pie, chips and pop, as Ben Ireland discovered at a hospital determined to do better
Recommendations in Leng Review, which BMA calls ‘inadequate response’ to ‘patient safety scandal’
Letter to home secretary outlines critical role played by international medical graduates
Doctors without confirmed job locations also left out of on-call rotas
Consultant paints stark picture of daily working life
Government plan to double medical school numbers questioned
The first scandal was that doctors were exposed to COVID due to failings in government PPE provision. The second was that those with Long Covid have been denied the support they need, causing huge financial and emotional distress. Recognition of the condition as an industrial disease would be a positive and necessary step. Peter Blackburn reports
