NHS loophole allows children to be prescribed puberty blockers despite ban
An NHS loophole allows puberty blockers to be prescribed to children who want to change gender despite the drugs being banned following a landmark review.
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An NHS loophole allows puberty blockers to be prescribed to children who want to change gender despite the drugs being banned following a landmark review.
Doctors with long Covid have pledged to take legal action against the NHS over PPE requirements during the pandemic.
The one great and inarguable virtue of the NHS is that it is perfectly fair: incompetence and backlogs deny service with majestic equality to both the rich and poor. Regardless of how much you might pay in, there can be no skipping the waiting list, which is currently at a record high. GP appointments are as scarce as hen’s teeth, and the money you pour into the system will seem to have no effect on outcomes.
INSIDE THE JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKE: Doctors tell the Independent why they decided to join the picket lines despite huge backlash
Give me a 35 per cent pay rise or I’ll dump my job in the NHS and go and work in Canada. That, in as many words, is what Dr Rob Laurenson, co-chair of the BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee told us this week. To which the obvious reply is: please do. How soon will you be going, and can we have a whip-round and chip in to pay your one-way air fare? Oh, and can you take your trainee anaesthetist sidekick, Dr Vivek Trivedi, with you? Britain will be better off without a pair of entitled would-be trots r