The new mother who woke up ‘screaming in agony’ after being sent home from hospital after a caesarean section with nothing more than paracetamol.
The women left exhausted from traumatic labours – and in so much pain they couldn’t walk or look after their newborn babies – told by NHS staff they could not have stronger painkillers because ‘you’ve just had a baby, what did you expect?’.
The mum who sobbed and begged for morphine days after an emergency C-section
VICTIMS of the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS said they felt ‘no sense of victory’ when the Infected Blood Inquiry concluded today — as the agony they have suffered has ‘completely overshadowed’ their lives.
Tens of thousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis after they were given contaminated blood and blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.
They include people who needed blood transfusions for accidents, in surgery or during
A mother-of-three has told how she though she was ‘going to die’ giving birth on the NHS.
Divina Johnson, of Birmingham, had a normal first pregnancy and assumed when her waters broke at 41 weeks her second labour would be the same.
Instead, it was the ‘most terrifying experience’ of her life.
During her traumatic childbirth, a nurse wrongly administered an epidural that left her shaking in pain. Ms Johnson was also berated by medics and subject to racism with
A woman desperate to have a baby fears she’s missed her final chance to become a mother after being told that her embryos might have been destroyed by a fault with the freezing process at a prestigious NHS fertility clinic.
The woman in her 40s, who wanted to remain anonymous, is one of the 136 caught up in the scare at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust in London.
All the affected women were heartbreakingly told their embryos and eggs
Christine Dawood still can’t quite believe that her husband of 20 years, Shahzada, and their precious son, Suleman, are no longer with her. It is now seven months since she last saw them climbing into the Titan submersible for, what she calls, ‘the big one’ in terms of this remarkable family’s many adventures.
Last June, one hour and 45 minutes into the dive in the North Atlantic to view the wreck of the Titanic, off the coast of Newfoundland, the
Thousands of children are being denied surgery that would prevent them from needlessly suffering from tonsillitis every year.
Strict NHS guidance has prevented many patients from undergoing the procedure, known medically as a tonsillectomy, since 2018 in a bid to save money.
As a result, seven-times fewer patients are undergoing the surgery now compared to the fifties, despite a landmark study last year finding that the op, which is most commonly offered to children, is both clinically and cost effective.
Jenny Carruthers knows starkly the agonising death that may await her. Ten years ago, the mother of three’s partner died at home in terrible pain from terminal bone cancer. Now, Jenny has been told she, too, faces the same.
Her partner, Gypie Mayo, had enjoyed fame playing guitar with rock bands such as Dr Feelgood and The Yardbirds.
He was diagnosed first with liver cancer in 2010 when he was 60. He had surgery and chemotherapy, but in December 2012
Fans say they will miss the Hairy Bikers as they rally behind Dave Myers and Si King after their hit podcast Agony Uncles announced the pair are taking a ‘well-earned break’.
The break was announced in an Instagram post on Friday promoting the latest episode of the show, titled the Best Of Confidential Corner Pt 1, which is a montage of some of the podcast’s ‘best bits’.
Producer Mark Jeeves, also known as the Thin White Duke, dubbed the episode
When Julie Gray’s cat Sky fell ill earlier this year, she immediately knew he would have just days to live.
Just months earlier, the retired Brit, who lives in Paphos, Cyprus, had already lost Smokey — Sky’s younger brother — to what she insists was the same illness.
No test confirmed what was to blame for four-year-old Smokey’s sudden refusal to eat or swollen belly.
But vets were able to pinpoint what killed Sky, a nine-year-old who suffered exactly the
