Maggie Boyle to leave post months after operations at LGI children’s heart unit were suspended over high death rates An NHS trust at the centre of a row over death rates for children’s heart surgery is to replace its chief executive. Maggie Boyle will leave Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) next month, ahead of [...]

Oliver James’s assertions are unhelpful and risk demonising people In more than 30 years of clinical practice, mostly in general practice, I have encountered much mental illness and experienced it in family members also. To polarise the debate between organic psychiatry looking for elusive biomarkers and promoting drug-based treatments versus Oliver James’s assertion that „abuse [...]

The report calling for an overhaul of accident and emergency services is right. Misdiagnosis nearly cost me my life I’d always assumed that if you were involved in an accident or became suddenly and seriously ill, A&E would be the best place to go. The doctors and nurses there had seen it all before, would [...]

Royal College of General Practitioners recommends creating a register of UK carers to help 40% who experience depression Carers should be routinely screened for depression and mental health problems as they often „neglect” their own well-being, the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned. The college has recommended creating a register of the UK’s 7 [...]

Warning comes as poll shows more than three-quarters of nurses say Mid Staffordshire scandal could happen again A group of senior nurses is warning that staffing levels on many hospital wards in England are unsafe. The Safe Staffing Alliance (SSA) says wards often have just one registered nurse looking after eight patients. According to the [...]