Ben Whishaw’s haggard junior doctor was working 16 years ago – the NHS is even worse today
Post-Covid and Conservative cuts, hospitals are closer to collapse than depicted in Adam Kay’s dramatised diaries, This is Going to…
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BBC One’s This Is Going To Hurt is cold, mean and – crucially – not funny
Ben Whishaw is miscast in this adaptation of Adam Kay’s bestselling medical memoir, and there is something badly amiss with…
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“It is embarrassing for the Prime Minister”: why the government really U-turned on NHS mandatory vaccines
“I’ve been bombarded with messages of people so worried that they were going to lose their livelihoods. It’s been horrific.”
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“Elderly patients with broken hips wait for hours”: an NHS paramedic on the grim reality of ambulance delays
Ambulance waiting times are now so long that some heart attack and stroke patients are being advised to get lifts…
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How the UK trails its European neighbours for hospital capacity
Britain has fewer hospital beds per head than Germany, France and Italy.
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Is a huge NHS tax rise the only way to make lockdowns history?
Without a debate about paying for extra capacity in hospitals, pandemic chaos will continue to threaten the economy.
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Why “moonlighting” GPs should not be demonised for taking on extra work
Doctors say that primary care would “collapse” without GPs working privately to prop up the NHS.
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Is the Conservative government privatising the NHS by stealth?
As the waiting list grows ever longer, more and more patients are paying for their treatment themselves.
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Doctors were calling for winter “Plan C” to control Covid-19 in September, before Omicron
Medics warned three months ago that social distancing, requirements to meet outdoors and preparation for “further firebreak lockdowns” should be…
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Public appetite is growing for another lockdown
Twenty-eight per cent of people in England saying they would support only allowing people to leave their homes for essential…
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It’s not your doctor’s fault you can’t get an appointment
The shortage of GPs predates the pandemic and stems from the government’s longstanding failure to solve the NHS recruitment crisis.
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Boosters are making a big difference
Data shows a dramatic fall in cases among those who have received their third jab.
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“It’s every 999 caller’s worst nightmare”: Why aren’t ambulances reaching people in time?
A baby fits for two hours. A cancer patient suffers suspected sepsis for seven hours. A man is left to…
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Should I get a Covid-19 booster jab?
As the Omicron variant spreads, the government has opened up its vaccine booster program to try and avoid lockdown restrictions…
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From the NS archive: The young doctors’ dilemma
5 January 1946: Every class of society should be drawn upon for recruits to the medical profession.
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How the number of NHS beds in England has halved
The total number of hospital beds has fallen from 300,000 to 141,000 over the last 30 years.
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Boris Johnson’s “optimism” is a dangerous denial of reality
On Brexit and Covid-19, the Prime Minister’s positive thinking is an excuse for inaction in the face of grave problems.
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Will selective austerity continue to work for the Conservatives?
The political approach that has proved lucrative for the Tories over the past decade may not be suited to the…
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Boris Johnson’s recklessness over Covid-19 has led to a new NHS crisis
We are desperate to treat everyone and are failing to do so – because we have been set up to…
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Personal Story: On the Covid front line
As a junior doctor walking into the intensive care unit for the first time, I saw a ward lined with unconscious patients attached to…
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