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Transgender woman who has never had sex claims she's been left 'disfigured and a freak' after TWO botched gender reassignment surgeries on the NHS left her 'castrated'

20/12/17 13:23

Kia, 26, from Wales, speaking under a pseudonym, says she was forced to seek private treatment after two NHS procedures left her in near constant pain and unable to have sex. Kia, who is a virgin and has never had a boyfriend, says doctors failed to tell her the surgeries had effectively 'castrated her', because she's been left with limited sensation....read

Blood stocks of TWO major types are running dangerously low and there may not be enough supply this Christmas, NHS officials warn

20/12/17 09:47

The NHS Blood and Transplant are now urging people to donate their blood - despite thousands having already been put off due to the cold temperatures.

Patients forced to wait for up to five-and-a-half hours while 23 ambulances queued outside a hospital's A&E department as winter flu and vomiting bug cause chaos

20/12/17 09:12

Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, whose A&E department has previously been described as 'chaotic', experienced an 'exceptionally difficult weekend' after a backlog of patients turned up.

Almost HALF of NHS doctors in some areas of the UK are now trained overseas, reveals report which shows the profession has hit 'crunch point'

20/12/17 02:57

The UK is becoming increasingly reliant on foreign-trained doctors particularly from Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, according a report issued by the General Medical Council.

Shadowy North Korean hacking gang Lazarus were the cyber criminals behind the WannaCry ransomware attack which disabled NHS networks, Foreign Office minister says

19/12/17 20:14

More than a third of hospital trusts had their systems crippled while nearly 7,000 NHS appointments were cancelled in the attack in May.

Primary school is forced to close after winter vomiting bug outbreak as cases rise by 70% in a week, leaving overstretched hospitals 'on a knife-edge'

19/12/17 15:31

Tongwynlais Primary in Cardiff has seen 30 of its 230 students struck down with norovirus, which can be life-threatening if it causes severe dehydration, with its headmistress saying she had 'no choice'.

North Korea was behind Wannacry: Trump administration points finger at Kim's regime for ransomware attack which infected hundreds of thousands of computers and crippled Britain's NHS

19/12/17 06:28

Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday that North Korea was 'directly responsible' for the Wannacry ransomware attack.

More than 100,000 full-time NHS posts are unfilled, says Labour: Biggest recruitment crisis is in nursing with 43,000 jobs vacant

19/12/17 02:27

Labour says more than 100,000 full-time NHS posts are unfilled with the biggest recruitment crisis being in nursing where 43,000 posts are vacant. 11,200 doctor posts are also empty.

Right-on views of woman who could be first to lead the Church: Former NHS chief nurse is named as the first female Bishop of London as she calls for more diversity among Church of England leaders

18/12/17 21:40

Former chief nursing officer Right Reverend Sarah Mullally has become the most senior woman in the Church of England after being nominated as Bishop of London.

Fears grow that machines will replace nurses' human touch as NHS introduces a 'talking cup' to stop patients dying of dehydration

17/12/17 16:48

The NHS has introduced a ‘talking cup’ to stop hospital patients becoming dehydrated. But the beaker has renewed fears that technology is robbing patients of human contact with nurses.

Government is accused of showing 'total disrespect' to British troops who died in the Falklands War as tax and NHS websites call them Malvinas

17/12/17 16:39

The Home Office, the NHS and tax officials at HMRC were all caught using the Argentinian name for the Falklands on their websites prompting an angry backlash from veterans and islanders.

Taxpayer-funded transgender lobby group demands free over-the-counter sex change hormones for children

17/12/17 13:31

Action for Trans Health (ATH) has trained hundreds of NHS staff and its leader Jess Bradley (pictured), 29, was at the heart of last year's Transgender Equality Government Inquiry.

NHS bosses are slammed for charging nurses £1,300 a year to park at work as unions, MPs and workers demand 'outrageous' high fees be scrapped

16/12/17 17:05

Unions branded the tariffs an 'outrage' after filing freedom of information requests to 247 NHS trusts to find out if staff had to pay to park.

NHS doctors are cashing in on overtime as soaring numbers earn £100,000 or more for working extra hours

16/12/17 15:43

An investigation has found that growing numbers of doctors earn six-figure sums for working overtime on top of their annual salaries. At least 126 received £100,000 last year for extra work.

Patients hit by norovirus up 70% in a week: More than 1,300 cases recorded putting further pressure on number of hospital beds

16/12/17 05:46

The number of patients suffering from norovrius was up by 70% last week as it rose to 1,336 from 790 the previous week. Experts have said the spike was adding to pressure on beds.

NHS dementia tests 'futile and failing patients': Warning symptoms in up to 40% of patients are being missed in routine checks

15/12/17 05:24

Up to 40 per cent of patients who have symptoms of dementia are being missed by doctors and nurses during routine assessments.

A nation of pill poppers: HALF of all adults in England are on prescription drugs for depression and heart disease, damning report reveals

15/12/17 03:56

The NHS's Health Survey for England, which involved 8,011 adults, also uncovered alarming rates of inactivity, heavy drinking, dieting and poor mental health.

Coroner blames gross NHS failures for death of bullied schoolgirl, 15, who hanged herself at home after repeated self-harm and suicide attempts

15/12/17 01:57

Bullied teenager Becky Romero, 15, died as a result of 'neglect' by the NHS, an inquest heard. Becky was discharged from a psychiatric unit despite cutting herself on the day of her release.

Transplant surgeon awaiting sentence for branding patients' livers with his initials is STILL working and carrying out operations

14/12/17 17:44

Simon Bramhall, 53, who admitted branding two patients livers while working as a transplant surgeon in Birmingham is still employed as a doctor with the NHS at a hospital near Hereford.

Free app helps cut patient waiting times by showing how busy NHS services in the area REALLY are

14/12/17 15:42

NHSquicker has been launched by the Health and Care IMPACT Network, a collaboration between the NHS across Devon and Cornwall and academics from the University of Exeter.

Is a CURE for haemophilia in sight? 'Mind-blowing' results from a human gene therapy trial offer hope of a life-saving treatment for sufferers of the incurable condition

14/12/17 14:06

Jake Omer, 29 from Billericay, Essex, who took part in the Bars Health NHS Trust trial, revealed the gene therapy changed his life and that he now has 'hope for the future'.

Women are more miserable than men until their mid-80s when they are widowed and begin enjoying retirement

14/12/17 11:49

An expert from the London-based Royal College of psychiatrists claims that women may be happier than men above the age of 85 because more people are widowed by then (stock).

Scrubs nurse 'spent EIGHT YEARS telling his wife and friends he was a top surgeon and even faked letter to keep up the lie'

14/12/17 11:29

Kevin O'Flanagan allegedly listed his job title as orthopaedic practitioner on his marriage certificate while he worked at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford (pictured).

Millennials who want to work flexible hours and demand career breaks are blamed for NHS staffing crisis

14/12/17 02:58

The NHS will need 190,000 more staff by 2027 in order to meet the demands of a growing and ageing population, according to new research.

This Morning medic shares post of her day as an over-stretched NHS GP – including helping immigrant victims of violence, rape and torture, who needed an interpreter – as she slams 10-minute consultations

13/12/17 17:55

London GP Dr Zoe Williams explained some of the complex cases she had to deal with in the brief slot. it comes after research showed Britain's GP consultations are among shortest in Europe.

Mac on... NHS vouchers for breastfeeding mothers

13/12/17 01:25

'Okay, nurse. You can distribute the vouchers, then chuck out the mother with the whiskers and the teddy bear.'

Why IS the NHS agreeing sky-high prices for life-saving drugs - then refusing to pay for them?

12/12/17 17:08

Sherri Coleman recently spent a week paralysed, imprisoned in her upstairs bedroom, because her doctors say they can’t give her the drug she needs.

Hospital apologises after pregnant teenager was turned away from hospital by midwife who blasted her for using an ambulance as ‘a taxi’ – just hours before her baby died

12/12/17 12:58

Elise Flitcroft (pictured with partner McCauley) had travelled to Royal Bolton Hospital in an ambulance, where a midwife slammed her for wasting NHS cash.

'Deeply worrying' question that asked 10-year-olds if they 'feel the same inside' as the gender they were born is axed from NHS survey after complaints from parents

12/12/17 10:42

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has now removed the controversial question asking children as young as 10 if they feel ‘comfortable with their gender’ from a survey.

Kind-hearted volunteer 4x4 drivers queue up to take nurses to and from their shifts in Birmingham hospitals hit by snowy weather

12/12/17 01:47

As snow swept across Britain last night, Heart of England NHS Trust, in the West Midlands, called on 4x4 drivers to help transport their staff to work through the wintry conditions.

QUENTIN LETTS: What the BBC DIDN'T tell you about Bungling Bob, the NHS boss who flounced out over funding

12/12/17 01:40

Yesterday morning’s BBC headlines brought the apparently shattering news that a certain Lord Kerslake had resigned as chairman of King’s College hospital in South London.

Giving new mothers £200 Tesco, Asda or Morrison’s vouchers encourages them to BREASTFEED for six months, reveals study

11/12/17 18:27

The new study of 10,000 new mothers, undertaken by researchers at Sheffield and Dundee universities, may help encourage more mothers in the UK to breastfeed.

NHS regulator puts King's College Hospital into special measures over its 'unacceptable' finances after it asked Lord Bob Kerslake to quit just two days before he resigned

11/12/17 13:47

The decision to put King's College Hospital into special measures comes after Lord Bob Kerslake - a former head of the civil service and a Labour adviser - was asked to resign on Friday.

NHS asks 10-year-olds if they're 'comfortable in their gender' in official transgender survey for schoolchildren

11/12/17 01:51

The Year Six pupils were given the official form by the NHS which asked them to tick a box to confirm if they are a 'boy', 'girl' or 'other' and whether they felt 'comfortable' in their gender .

Child killer who knifed 13-year-old girl to death 'is now living as a man in women-only jail'

10/12/17 18:09

Hannah Bonser, who stabbed 13-year-old Casey Kearney to death, is reportedly living as a man called Adam while serving a minimum of 22 years at HMP Low Newton in County Durham.

Cases of winter vomiting bug soar by 13% in a week as NHS braces itself for the dreaded 'Aussie flu' outbreak, prompting fears the health service will be left crippled

09/12/17 00:55

Public Health England statistics show 1,475 infected people have been infected with norovirus since July, compared to the 1,294 cases that were recorded last week.

Meet the Joneses: This average family has cost the NHS £170,000 in the past three years... so can YOU guess who has rallied up the highest bill?

09/12/17 00:00

EXCLUSIVE: Marie Jones, a mother-of-three, from Belfast, took an online test to determine how expensive her family was to the NHS. The six-figure sum is only an estimate.

Anorexic student, 19, starved to death after she was failed by 'Third World' NHS care: Series of doctors failed former grammar school girl and then deleted emails to cover up their errors, report finds

08/12/17 06:33

Averil Hart, 19, from Sudbury in Suffolk, was let down by every part of the organisation that should have cared for her, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman says.

NHS hospitals will be 'sorely tested' this winter: Some are operating at 99% occupancy as experts stress the health service needs a 156,000-strong army of volunteers to cope

07/12/17 10:05

Two anonymous hospital chief executives told NHS Providers, which represents trusts across the country, that their beds were already 98 per cent and 99 per cent occupied.

How much have YOU cost the NHS? Interactive quiz reveals how expensive your knee replacements, GP appointments and A&E visits have been to the health service this year

07/12/17 01:06

EXCLUSIVE: The tool comes as the NHS is facing its worst financial crisis in a generation as it struggles to meet the needs of the aging population on a very tightly-constrained budget.

'She was so proud… she lost all her dignity': Family of stroke victim who was kept alive by doctors despite living will telling them to let her die tell of heartbreak as they win £45,000 payout from the NHS

06/12/17 22:17

The grieving family of a Brenda Grant, 81, left unable to walk or talk after a stroke have won a £45,000 payout after doctors in Warwickshire kept her alive against her wishes.

Patients will have to 'sleep, take paracetamol and PRAY': Concerned doctors warn the NHS will not be able to cope during the winter months because of unprecedented pressure

06/12/17 13:50

The NHS is expected to face unprecedented pressure in the coming months, as campaigners fear it will be disastrous amid soaring waiting lists in A&E.

'How could our doctor call my baby retarded?' Grieving parents claim NHS staff asked if they wanted to abort their daughter at 37 WEEKS because she had Down's syndrome

05/12/17 14:56

Hannah and Ben Day have spoken about the horror of being asked to consider ending the life of their unborn daughter Iris, who had Down's Syndrome, three weeks before she was born.

Doctors are recommending NHS patients pay up to £9,000 for non-emergency operations, from earwax removal to hip replacements, to beat waiting times as rationing fears rise

05/12/17 01:53

Such 'shopping list' procedures are being offered by Care UK for close to £9,000 at a treatment centre in Emersons Green, Bristol, where NHS therapies are also carried out.

NHS cancer specialists 'too busy manning the phones to see patients': Report finds radiographers are being put in charge of reception desks

05/12/17 00:56

Cancer Research UK, which carried out the report, predicted that the NHS’s cancer services would ‘slip down the ranks’ if staffing levels did not improve.

Mother is suing two hospital trusts that 'failed to treat an ulcer that became so infected part of her leg had to be amputated'

04/12/17 11:31

Amputee Karen Webb from East Sussex is taking two hospital trusts to court after claiming doctors 'ignored' an ulcer on her foot for almost a year, resulting in part of her leg being removed.

DAILY BRIEFING: GlaxoSmithKline among firms expected to announce billions of pounds of investment in UK

04/12/17 09:00

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is expected to be among firms announcing billions of pounds of investment with the Government this week.

Patients 'badly failed' as 900,000 NHS letters are lost: MPs attack NHS's handling of data loss with officials still not knowing if anybody was harmed

03/12/17 17:54

The private firm, called NHS Shared Business Services, had a contract to deliver documents between GPs and hospitals and resulted in almost 900,000 documents disappearing.

One in ten girls aged 14 to 17 were referred to specialist mental health services last year

03/12/17 17:11

Figures show 127,425 girls in the age group sought help from the NHS-funded secondary mental health and learning disability services in 2016.

Brexit may mean British patients have to wait longer for life-saving drugs with the NHS forced to shell out more for them, pharmaceutical bosses warn

03/12/17 14:25

Pharmaceutical boss Mark Hicken warned peers Brexit could have a dramatic impact on the supply of life-saving medicines with even British drug companies concentrating on Europe.

World-class heart hospital that was 'saved' by NHS bosses is now being lined up for a £1billion sale to make way for luxury flats

03/12/17 14:25

The world-leading Royal Brompton Hospital in London, recently ‘saved’ by NHS bosses, is being lined up for a billion pound sale to make way for luxury flats.

Top doctor slams A&E patients who act like consumers and says they should just 'deal with' four hour waits at NHS emergency units

02/12/17 14:39

Professor David Oliver, clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians, says patients have ‘consumerist’ expectations of the health service.

Widow pensioner, 85, died in hospital after drinking cleaning fluid 'that staff mistook for orange juice' as police launch investigation

01/12/17 17:56

Joan Blaber was admitted to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, in August for leg ulcer treatment. It is believed the cleaning liquid triggered a heart attack.

Patients may no longer be able to get painkillers, cough mixture and eye drops on the NHS as bosses call to axe 'wasteful' prescriptions to save money

01/12/17 10:21

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: 'The NHS should not be paying for low-value treatments and it's right that we look at reducing prescriptions for [such] medicines'.

Mother's fury after health officials sent 'disgusting' letter advising her to put her four-year-old daughter on a diet to stop her becoming overweight

30/11/17 11:42

Nicola Eggleton, 31, from Hull, East Yorkshire, has been warned by Hull City Council her daughter is likely to be an overweight adult unless she takes action now and makes changes to her diet.

NHS trust is fined more than £300,000 after five elderly patients died following falls in hospital

30/11/17 02:43

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust admitted failing to ensure the safety of the five elderly people following a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

New head of NHS finance watchdog will earn almost £300,000 despite unprecedented cash crisis (and £468,000 Bath university chief is on the board with him)

30/11/17 02:32

The new boss of the NHS’s financial watchdog Ian Dalton will earn almost £300,000 a year for his role in London despite an unprecedented cash crisis, it has been revealed.

The caring party: Theresa May plans to rebrand the Tories after disastrous election campaign... but she won't rule out defence cuts

30/11/17 02:06

Backbenchers have been told the party will concentrate on issues such as the environment and animal welfare after internal polling showed they were seen as uncaring.

Hope at last for migraine sufferers: 'Holy grail' monthly jab which halves attacks could be approved by NHS in new year

29/11/17 22:58

The monthly injection, called erenumab, prevents nearly half of migraine attacks for people who have few other treatment options, scientists found.

NHS hires 5,500 'rolling' nurses from abroad: Staff will work in the UK for up to three years before returning home

29/11/17 22:43

The NHS is hiring up to 5,500 'rolling' nurses from India and the Philippines who will work here for two to three years gaining specialist experience and skills before returning back home.

Controversial vaginal mesh implants should be BANNED, reveals health watchdog NICE, after thousands of women have suffered crippling pain that has left them on the brink of suicide

28/11/17 07:39

The UK health watchdog recommends the 'gold standard' implants should be used for research and not routinely offered. One expert says the NHS will likely follow NICE's guidance.

Fears grow for missing transgender schoolgirl, 15, who vanished from mental health unit nearly a week ago and may now be living as a boy on the streets of London

27/11/17 23:11

Isla Franco (pictured), 15, was last seen at a NHS mental health centre in Berkshire last Tuesday where she was receiving treatment for a 'number of conditions'.

Give children flu spray so they don't infect grandma: NHS warns parents that youngsters are 'super-spreaders of the disease after just one in five take up offer of free vaccination

27/11/17 19:13

Children should receive flu vaccines to stop them infecting their grandparents at Christmas parties, the NHS advised. Infants are 'super-spreaders' of the illness, bosses said.

Top surgeons declare war on NHS chiefs amid plans to axe a world-renowned children's heart unit that has saved thousands of lives

26/11/17 15:41

Two of Britain’s most eminent surgeons today make an impassioned plea to halt the closure of a world-leading NHS heart service that has saved the lives of thousands of children.

Baby case doctors win privacy fight: Staff treating brain-damaged boy win right to remain anonymous over fear they may be harassed by the public

25/11/17 12:04

Bosses at an NHS trust who wanted to stop providing life-support treatment to a brain-damaged baby boy have won the right to protect their privacy over fears of public harassment.

Now NHS prepares to ration painkillers and routine operations: Bosses drawn guidelines after getting only a third of the money they asked for in the Budget

25/11/17 12:04

NHS bosses are drawing up national rationing guidelines for routine operations and prescription medicines after getting only a third of the money they asked for in the Budget.

The £40 smart plaster that spots sepsis SIX hours early: Gadget to be fast-tracked into hospitals after trials show it could boost survival rates

23/11/17 14:39

A smart plaster that detects the early signs of sepsis is to be fast-tracked into NHS hospitals as the gadget is earmarked for rapid adoption across England.

NHS trusts are STILL promoting natural births to mothers despite series of baby deaths being linked to the delivery method

23/11/17 14:37

The NHS is paying a controversial author to persuade midwives to promote ‘natural birth’ despite a series of baby deaths associated with it, campaigners have claimed.

Hammond invests £12.8BILLION extra in the NHS to make it 'fit for the future' including £350million more for this winter - but health chiefs warn it is still not enough

23/11/17 11:15

Chancellor Philip Hammond used his Budget today to pledged investment in the National Health Service in response to demands for a dramatic increase in spending.

Cancer victory over drugs giants: Up to 8,000 women to benefit as NHS forces price cut for two life-changing treatments

22/11/17 13:03

The drugs are hailed as the ‘closest thing to a cure’ for women with incurable breast cancer. Vikki Orvice (pictured), from St Albans, has been able to work full-time thanks to the wonder drugs.

At least 675 patients fall over every day on health service wards: Audit finds many are caused by patients not having walking frames or being unsteady from medication

22/11/17 00:56

Some 675 patients have falls on NHS wards every day across England and Wales, a major Royal College of Physicians audit has found.

NHS was forced to pay an extra £34 million for a common thyroid pill after a pharmaceutical giant abused its position as the drug's only supplier and hiked prices by 6,000%

21/11/17 17:04

Ontario-based pharmaceutical company Concordia, which manufacturers liothyronine tablets, increased the drug's price per pack by nearly 6,000 per cent from £4.46 to £258.19.

More than half of fat men don't think they are overweight: Warning chaps may now see obesity as acceptable

21/11/17 15:54

Millions of men are deluding themselves about their weight, experts have warned. More than half of overweight men think their weight is ‘about right’, research suggests.

Romanian nurse who put patients' lives at risk because her English was so poor she couldn't answer 999 operator's questions is allowed to carry on working

21/11/17 12:20

A misconduct hearing was told Rpdoca Olteanu, 34, was allowed to work at an NHS hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, despite not having the 'necessary knowledge of English to practise safely'.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt finally hits back at Ralf Little in 26 tweets after DOUBLE-DARING the actor to challenge his claims on NHS mental healthcare

21/11/17 08:11

Jeremy Hunt has finally hit back following his Twitter confrontation with Ralf Little after the actor accused the health secretary of lying about his efforts to challenge mental health

Cancer scan at the supermarket: NHS rolls out screening trucks in Tesco and Asda car parks in bid to improve detection rates of the disease

21/11/17 01:06

Mobile CT scanners will be rolled out to supermarket car parks across the UK after a trial in Manchester led to a four-fold increase in detection rates among at-risk patients.

The children who are so fat they need hip replacements: Five under-19s had the operation last year with obesity the main cause

20/11/17 13:47

One child aged ten to 14 and four aged 15 to 19 had an NHS hip replacement last year with obesity as the main or secondary cause, official figures have revealed.

Blundering NHS bosses host a conference for grieving families in a room called the ASHES Suite

19/11/17 14:04

Grieving families were invited to the Oval cricket ground in London for an event aimed at learning how the NHS could apologise for blunders. But they chose a room called the 'Ashes Suite'.

A to Z of politically correct madness: The Left's 'Thought Police' continues to censor language as 'manfully' is labelled sexist

18/11/17 17:55

The latest example this week was a ‘sin’ committed against the creed behind ‘gender politics’, which dictates that anyone who uses language deemed ‘sexist’ must be punished.