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Proposals to overhaul the UK’s disability benefits and make them more targeted to people with the greatest need have been described as “cruel” and “ineffective” by doctors’ leaders. The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a consultation on reforming the disability benefits system, which proposes removing the need for personal independence payment (PIP) assessments for people with certain long term health conditions or disabilities, including terminal illnesses. Under the plans, however, people with mild anxiety and depression would no longer receive the PIP, while others ...

Consultant neuroradiologist Ian Turnbull tells Adrian O’Dowd why he was determined to remain involved in training doctors despite retiring Retirement does not mean a doctor has to stop loving medicine or wanting to be involved in training the next generation of clinicians, says Ian Turnbull. Edinburgh born Turnbull was a consultant neuroradiologist at North Manchester General Hospital for 19 years and then at Salford Royal Hospital until his retirement in 2008. Since then, until very recently, he was an honorary consultant neuroradiologist to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in a tea...

Badly needed support for children’s mental health in England should be focused on schools with the creation of “one stop shop” information hubs, according to experts. A new report1 calls for a radical overhaul of the system that provides mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people and warns that currently around a fifth of this population may have a mental health condition. The report published on 26 April by the Centre for Young Lives think tank and the Child of the North initiative—a partnership between Health Equity North and N8 Research Partnership—calls on ...

Waiting times for NHS hospital treatment in England have improved slightly according to the latest performance figures, but experts are warning the NHS is stuck in a cycle of poor performance and the way figures are counted has affected the overall picture. The latest NHS performance figures1 show that the total waiting list for procedures and appointments reduced from 7.58 million in January to 7.54 million in February, falling for the fifth consecutive month. The 7.54 million total was made up of an estimated 6.29 million patients because some are waiting for more than one treatment. NHS Eng...

A step towards potentially legalising assisted dying in Scotland has taken place with the formal introduction of a bill to the Scottish parliament on 27 March. If the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill1 is passed it will represent the first time that dying people in the UK can legally choose assisted dying if they meet eligibility criteria. The bill has prompted criticism from some parts of the medical profession, disability and human rights groups, and some religious groups, with concerns that a change in the law would put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives...