Doctors
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Mental health and the NHS: a story of staff shortages and specialismsMental health suffers more staff vacancies than other areas in the NHS
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How much should patients know about pharma payments to doctors?Pharmaceutical companies opting in to a code of practice are having details of their payments to healthcare professionals made public – but does the database go far enough?
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Deal on junior doctors' contracts 'nearly there' after progress in talksOutline of revised contract expected to be published, which will be put to ballot of BMA members
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Doctors should prescribe gardening for patients more often, says reportThose suffering from cancer, dementia and mental health problems can benefit from gardening, according to health thinktank
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Plan to train NHS nurses to cover for doctors sparks alarmNuffield Trust report recommends support staff become ‘physician associates’ to address shortage of junior doctors
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Doctors are told to curb overuse of oxygen in hospitalsStudy highlights dangers of unprescribed therapy and calls for better NHS training in what constitutes a safe ‘target range’ of oxygen in the body
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Junior A&E doctor selected as Labour candidate for TootingRosena Allin-Khan selected to stand for Labour in House of Commons seat vacated last week by London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan
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Junior doctors keen to 'rediscover common ground' with ministersBMA’s Dr Johann Malawana says a conciliatory tone has been struck in this week’s talks to solve dispute over contracts
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Junior doctors have been radicalised by Jeremy Hunt’s smearsThe health secretary needs to provide greater investment and infrastructure if he truly wants a seven-day NHS
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A moment that changed me: the day my colleague was murderedWe were a band of 12 junior doctors, as close as any family. When we heard the dreadful news about Jeff, I sought solace the only way I knew – through writing
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Emigration tempts almost half junior doctors – archive11 May 1967: Poor pay and prospects mean 48% of junior doctors are actively considering emigrating
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Few of my patients want to see me at the weekendSeven-day GP surgeries aren’t popular with patients Paying us to run largely empty weekend surgeries is a bad use of NHS funds
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Even for refugee advocates, the report of a hospital executive telling a doctor not to treat, but deport, a patient was a new and worrying developmentDoctors as an arm of border protection? That's a step too far
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The Guardian view on statistics and NHS reforms: Jeremy Hunt’s number gamesEditorial: The health secretary says his plans for a ‘seven-day NHS’ could save 11,000 lives annually. But the more the experts examine that number, the shakier it looks
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Doctors wary as pharmacies cash in on minor check-ups and treatmentsWill the growing role of pharmacists in the NHS benefit patients or just the balance sheets of companies such as Boots?
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A good death should be doctors and patients' last life goalMy aim as a doctor is to heal the sick but when I am unable, to prevent suffering
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Junior doctors prepare for fresh talks over contractsChief executive of Manchester Royal Infirmary urged not to impose contract even if ordered to do so by Jeremy Hunt
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British Medical Association to reopen contract talks with Jeremy HuntJunior doctors’ leader hopes for ‘real progress’ in dispute with health secretary after series of strikes
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Junior doctors to decide on return to contract talksHealth secretary Jeremy Hunt says he wants assurances by end of Saturday that union will negotiate constructively
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Fewer people die in hospital at weekends, study findsWeekend death rate problem, used by Jeremy Hunt to justify imposing new doctors’ contract, ‘does not exist’
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Junior doctors' row: Jeremy Hunt and BMA to restart contract talksHealth secretary says he will hold off from forcing terms on striking doctors if their union agrees to negotiate Saturday pay
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How a tiny city in New York became a beacon for transgender healthcareDr Carolyn Wolf-Gould has built a center that treats more than 300 transgender people from across the north-east – and many travel 50 or 100 miles to see her
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The Sunshine rule: a quick guideUnder government plans, clinical commissioning groups and hospital trusts will be required to keep a list of gifts and payments from pharmaceutical companies to NHS staff
Junior doctors split over deal with Jeremy Hunt to end contract dispute