A doctor who worked for the private company which assesses people for disability benefits says its methods are “unfair”. Greg Wood, a former Royal Navy doctor, resigned from Atos earlier this month, after working as an assessor for two-and-a-half years. … Continue reading
Nurses who can’t speak English are being allowed to work on wards without undergoing proper tests, MPs warn today. They accuse the nursing watchdog of endangering patients by failing to enforce adequate language checks and have asked for ‘urgent’ action … Continue reading
Demonstrators call on government to stop planned closure of A&E department and downgrading of maternity ward Thousands of protesters have marched through south-east London to demand that the government stops the planned closure of a hospital’s accident and emergency department … Continue reading
Hospitals are ‘very bad places’ for elderly people, according to the head of the NHS. Sir David Nicholson said they were not the right place to care for ‘old, frail people’, and called for community care to be expanded to … Continue reading
Labour calls on government not to ‘let the tax avoiders into the NHS‘ after revelations in review by Monitor Private companies providing NHS services could be exempt from paying corporation tax on their profits under proposals being considered by a … Continue reading
A 62-year-old hospital patient who was suffering with breathing difficulties was told he would have to walk 23 miles home after being discharged in the middle of the night. Peter Rees was rushed to West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen … Continue reading
How have we got to the situation in this country where a Nurse doesn’t know the bloody difference between Milligrams & Micrograms or that giving someone a glass of lucozade is equivalent to a glucose drip? I know one of the … Continue reading
In a newspaper report today it’s been revealed that up to a 1000 Doctors some with very serious convictions are being allowed to practice without the public knowing of their convictions, this must be great for Atos and their … Continue reading
Pensioners are being sent to care homes in eastern Europe and Asia in an austerity move dismissed as ‘inhumane deportation’ Continue reading