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Breast Cancer Scandal: Exposing the Harm

BBC Health correspondent Sharon Barbour investigates a deepening breast cancer scandal.

44C heat and fainting patients: Plea to avoid another 'inhumane' heatwave on NHS wards

Patients died and others deteriorated in "suffocating atmospheres" because of the summer heat on NHS hospital wards, a survey has found.

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Plan to limit NHS diagnoses of ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare

Review expected to say patients in England should be ‘triaged’ and offered support without formal diagnosisProposals to limit the number of patients being formally diagnosed with attention deficit hyp...

'I can get more time': Breast cancer patient finds out she can get life extending drug

Patients in England with an incurable breast cancer can now access a life-extending drug on the NHS.

‘A really scary place for children’: English hospitals have chronic lack of health play staff

Analysis finds only 955 play professionals supporting 21 million child hospital admissions, leaving many traumatised for lifeChildren in English hospitals with serious illnesses are being exposed to a...

Women in England with incurable breast cancer to get life-extending drug on NHS

Thousands with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will have access to Enhertu after ministers strike deal on priceThousands of women in England with incurable breast cancer will get access to a life-exte...

More than 1,000 children dead in Bangladesh measles outbreak

Until March this year, Bangladesh had made "substantial progress" towards eliminating measles.

Life-extending drug for breast cancer patients now on NHS

A life-extending drug will be made available on the NHS to patients in England with a specific type of incurable breast cancer, after an initial decision to reject the treatment was reversed.

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'I can get more time - that's everything': Breast cancer patients get life-extending drug

Enhertu, which can give patients an extra seven months to live on average, has been prescribed in Scotland for more than two years and is available.

No fire alarms or sprinklers at Pakistan hospital ward where 14 babies died, report finds

A firefighter tells the BBC that rescuers had said many doors near the unit were locked, obstructing their route to the babies.

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UK politics: Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ – as it happened

PM responds to criticism from former Bank of England chief economistWes Streeting, the defence secretary, has posted this on social media ahead of Andy Burnham’s meeting with the Nato secretary genera...

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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins

Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots with an increase of antibiotic-resistant genes, study findsMicroplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through the...

Lucy Letby: Families' solicitor blames hospital bosses for police delay

The Thirlwall Inquiry found repeated failures by hospital leaders to act on concerns.

Letby doctor says inquiry 'grim reading' and he wishes 'we had been brave enough to follow suspicions'

Consultant Dr John Gibbs worked at the hospital during the period in 2015 to 2016 when Letby murdered seven babies.

Air pollution linked to higher suicide risk, international research suggests

Analysis of 29 studies highlights potentially heightened danger from small particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide Air pollution is associated with an increased risk of suicide and suicidal thoughts,...

Thirlwall inquiry has left biggest questions around the Letby case unanswered

Decision not to pause proceedings means £18m report does not engage with concerns over former nurse’s convictionJust two months before Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall opened her inquiry into events at...

Ministers vow sweeping NHS changes after ‘devastating’ report on Lucy Letby hospital

Lady Justice Thirlwall’s report concludes three babies might have survived if hospital had acted on concerns about nurseMinisters have promised sweeping changes to the NHS after a “devastating” offici...

Letby failings go beyond one hospital - the whole system has been found lacking

Inquiry chair Lady Justice Thirlwall set out how the culture of the health system created the conditions that enabled poor care and criminality.

‘It makes you feel helpless’: patients and doctors cast doubt on standard treatment for endometriosis

Natalie Greenwood says surgery is no ‘magic fix’ for chronic pelvic pain – a view backed up by a new study“It’s really frustrating to be in this cycle of continuous surgery. It makes you feel helpless...

Thirlwall report: what did it say about Lucy Letby case and what does it recommend?

Lady Justice Thirlwall’s wide-ranging inquiry calls on NHS England to implement 14 changes by March next yearLady Justice Thirlwall has published the report on the findings of her inquiry into events...