Care workers felt neglected compared to NHS staff - inquiry
People working in care homes and social care felt neglected during Covid, the injury hears. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Astonishing early reluctance to call Covid civil emergency - inquiry
An expert says Welsh government felt Covid "wasn't a civil emergency" in early March 2020. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Hospital patient given 'corridor care' for 14 hours
A patient at a hospital experiencing "record admissions" says he had no access to water. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health staff to start court fight over long Covid
They say they are disabled after catching Covid at work, with no protection from employers. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Unions back improved NHS senior doctor pay offer
Consultants in England to vote on new deal after rejecting previous offer by narrow margin. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cautious backing for rise in physician associates
The doctors’ union is concerned about patient safety because of a new law regulating those roles. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NHS trust admits failures over death of baby boy
A coroner hears hospital staff failed to give Zachary Taylor-Smith's mum antibiotics during labour. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Medical leaders back rise in physician associates
But the doctors’ union is concerned about patient safety because of a new law regulating those roles. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Consultants vote to strike in Wales
Doctors will walk out in April over "extreme pressures" and "unsafe staffing levels". (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Man hails 'quality of life' drug available on NHS
Ross Cunliffe says "the right thing has been done" in making daratumumab available on the NHS. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'I was left lying in my own urine'
A 73-year-old man says he was denied pain relief and was left lying in a bed soaked with urine. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'I embrace my alopecia, but I’d love my old hair back’
People living with alopecia could have access to treatment on the NHS in Scotland for the first time. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Can green 'super powders' really make you healthy?
Products containing probiotics, vitamins and antioxidants are being sold as healthy essentials. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Kidney donor mum and son take on world on skis
Just living a normal life was the biggest hope, now Alex will take on the world on the slopes. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news