Nat WrightHealth Producer Getty Images The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) stands accused of failing victims and compounding their trauma. Sanctions for doctors guilty of sexual misconduct in the UK are too lenient in around a quarter of cases, a review suggests. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) stands accused of failing victims and compounding…
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San Francisco – KFF announced today that Dr. Dave Ashok Chokshi, a practicing physician and health leader, has joined KFF’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Chokshi is a physician at Bellevue Hospital as well as Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at the City College of New York. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the 43rd…
Getty Images The roll out of the “world-first” vaccination programme against gonorrhoea began last month Gonorrhoea vaccines and a new antibiotic treatment are being offered at a Soho bar as part of an effort to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The pop-up events, which are being hosted in G-A-Y Bar, aim to make…
Maisie OlahShropshire and Clare AshfordBBC Radio Shropshire Leanne Abeyance says her septum – the cartilage and bone that separates the nostrils – has now collapsed A woman has said she is living in constant pain and is unable to breathe through her nose after having dental work in Turkey. Leanne Abeyance, 41, from Telford, said…
Kate McGoughEducation reporter BBC/Kate McGough Parents protest outside Parliament this week ahead of reforms to special educational needs Individual care plans for children with special educational needs should not be scrapped, say MPs. A new Education Select Committee report also calls for new minimum standards of support for special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in…
A hospital boss has apologised after a Kent emergency department resorted to using its cafe as a makeshift ward. A&E staff at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford decided to screen off the building’s cafe on Tuesday to create space for treating patients. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said the move was due to…
WHITE HOUSE/EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT National Security Advisor/Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council (NSC) Marco Rubio Director, Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) Vacant Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer Director, Office of…
Menopause and Cancer Menopause and Cancer is a charity that supports people who are managing menopause following cancer treatment Campaigners are calling for menopause support to be included into cancer treatment care plans. The majority (90%) of the 1,200 people surveyed by Menopause and Cancer said they were not provided plans to help manage menopause-related…
Jessica LawrenceBBC News NI BBC Elaine Agnew has had her operation cancelled which she has been waiting nearly a year for “Significant” IT issues at services across the Southern Health Trust will continue into Thursday with the majority of planned surgery and out-patient hospital appointments being cancelled. A major incident is still ongoing at sites,…
