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After a decade working in Britain's besieged National Health Service (NHS), Harshal Deshmukh had had enough.The father-of-two uprooted his life and moved his family to Mackay, Queensland in March.There were "many reasons" the endocrinologist wanted to leave the United Kingdom, but regularly seeing...
Exclusive: NHS bosses forced to spend millions on pest control in decrepit, rundown buildings
As it turns 75, the N.H.S., a proud symbol of Britain’s welfare state, is in the deepest crisis of its history.
But it’s not too late to save it.
Most winters, headlines warn that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is at "breaking point." The alarms sound over and over and over again. But the current crisis has set warning bells ringing louder than before.
A survey by the BMA found that nearly half of senior consultants want to leave within a year.
Research by Royal College of Nursing suggests racism is ‘endemic’ in health and care
But the new report by MPs fails to reflect the views of bereaved relatives, campaigners say.
Governments and scientists are scrambling to understand the wider impacts of the upheaval caused by the virus. Using fresh responses from 17,452 people, British researchers were able to score a person's mental health out of 36.
The long read: After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal
Thousands of Australians working in hospitals across Britain are enduring physically gruelling and emotionally draining shifts.
Facing a global scramble for materials, British officials bought millions of unproven kits from China in a gamble that became an embarrassment.
When he emerged from St. Thomas’ Hospital on Sunday, the first thing Prime Minister Boris Johnson did was thank the National Health Service for saving his life. He paid special tribute to his nurses, “Jenny from New Zealand” and “Luis from Portugal,” two of the thousands of immigrants who serve in the NHS.
“It’s hard to find the words to express my debt,” said the usually loquacious Johnson, pale and wan in a video clip, after days in the virus ward, where “it could have gone either way,” he said.
In Johnson’s short speech on life and death, the 55-year-old Tory praised the NHS as “powered by love.” His tribute underlines how Britain’s great socialist endeavor, a national health-care system, free for all, has emerged as the most trusted and vital of institutions.
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Stark new projections suggest annual admissions will rise to 151,000, costing the NHS and economy £75bn
Exclusive: Treatments near approval but lack of diagnostic capacity means NHS is unprepared for rollout, says report
A new book brings together over 100 photos from the early decades of Britain’s publicly funded National Health Service, a national institution that turns 75 this week.
Life expectancy in Britain, as in almost all other rich countries, had been rising for nearly two centuries. But something went wrong in the early 2010s.
British doctors are risking their jobs to speak out against what they say is an unfolding catastrophe in the national health system, with patients left lying on hospital floors and in corridors while they wait for help.
Medics working in some British hospitals face “slave-type” conditions, says a doctors’ group.
Most of the resources we are devoting to Covid in hospital are being spent on people who have not had jab, says an NHS consultant
Jenny McGee stood at the side of the British Prime Minister when he was hospitalised with COVID-19 last year. Now she has resigned, citing lack of government support for health care workers.
England’s chief nurse has confirmed she was dropped from the Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing after refusing to back Dominic Cummings.
Ruth May said that in a trial run for the 1 June briefing, she was asked about Boris Johnson’s chief adviser’s decision to drive his family from London to Durham during lockdown while his wife had suspected Covid-19.
After she failed to back Cummings, she said, she was told she was no longer needed for the televised press conference taking place later that day, and she was never given an explanation why.
As we muddle through relaxing the UK lockdown, the overwhelming public mood seems to be one of fury
Nurse Jenny McGee speaks of her "shock" at being singled out for praise by the UK prime minster.
A powerful new video emphasizing the vital role played by key workers from immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds in keeping Britain running during the coronavirus crisis has gone viral.
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