Patients should be allowed to self-diagnose ‘long Covid’, Government researchers have said, amid concerns sufferers are not being believed. The call accompanies the publication of new
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Doctors’ fury at closure of children’s A&E services to prepare for second Covid wave
Health authorities said the closures were intended to help “prepare for the busy winter period and a potential second surge of Covid-19 cases”. But the petition
Doctors unable to order blood tests as crisis over shortage of components grows
GPs are increasingly unable to order blood tests, including those for cancer and serious heart conditions, as the shortage of Roche components becomes a national
Doctors will be able to buy non-Covid-19 testing from private hospitals in new ‘pay-as-you-go’ deal
Individual NHS trusts and local GPs across the UK will be able to buy non-coronavirus check-ups, tests and operations at nearby private hospitals for the
Doctors told to ration remdesivir as NHS hit by shortages
Hospitals have been ordered to ration prescriptions of the coronavirus “wonderdrug” Remdesivir after a shortage has left trusts without enough to go around. Doctors have
‘Lazy doctors are using Covid-19 as an excuse to not see us’
Health chiefs have warned GPs that failing to offer appointments in person is a “breach of contract” as concerns grow that Covid-19 is leaving patients
Even post-Covid, doctors are still dismissing women as attention seeking hypochondriacs
But I also hear stories about all kinds of physical and mental health conditions being dismissed or misdiagnosed. In some cases it’s quite literally a
Give cannabis to elderly people with chronic pain, doctors say
Elderly people with chronic pain including back and joint injuries should be prescribed cannabis instead of conventional painkillers, doctors have said, as polling shows that three quarters
Doctors’ ‘gut instincts’ better at catching cancer than just a symptoms checklist
Doctors with the experience to “go with their gut instinct” are better at diagnosing cancer than those who simply go through a list of symptoms,
‘Doctors knew the Primodos risks. We were lab rats’
Kevin was born on Boxing Day morning in 1963 and passed as a small bundle wrapped in swaddling to his overjoyed mother, Pat. It was
