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
My legs gave way and I fell down the stairs. As I was lying on my back in a heap, I was struck by how ironic this was: I was a neuro-rehabilitation physiotherapist, and it would normally be me teaching people how to go up and down stairs safely. Yet here I was, helpless on the floor.’
Elisabeth Briggs, 48, a mother of three teenagers, from Newport, Shropshire, fights back tears as she recounts how her life changed after she
It has been two and a half years since Britain scrapped its Covid mask mandates, the controversial law requiring face coverings in public spaces. But as cases rise again, Spain announced last week that compulsory mask-wearing will be reintroduced in hospitals in order to ‘protect healthcare workers’. So could masks stage a comeback here too?
Certainly, UK hospitals are battling similar pressures. Some have declared ‘critical incidents’ as cases of respiratory viruses rocket sixfold in a month. Several hospital trusts
Junior doctors are today set to stage the longest ever strike in the history of the NHS.
Workers began a six-day walkout at 7am, delaying care for tens of thousands of patients and with experts warning it would be the NHS’s ‘toughest challenge yet’.
As many as 200,000 operations and appointments could be cancelled — bringing the total number since junior doctor industrial action started to more than 1million.
The strike comes at one of the busiest times of the
Bungling NHS staff are carrying out the equivalent of one ‘never-event’ every day, figures show.
This is despite the Government ordering a crackdown on the mistakes, which cost hospitals an estimated £800million in compensation each year.
Experts today demanded further action on ‘unacceptable’ levels of never-events, blaming inadequate staffing levels and a lack of investment in the NHS.
A MailOnline audit of a decade’s worth of NHS data found a colossal 4,328 never-events have occurred in England since 2013.
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Daniel Klosi was a bright, happy four-year-old who loved playing with his friends at nursery, baking cakes and going to the cafe near his home in North London with his mum, Lindita and dad, Kastriot. On their living room wall is a huge portrait of him: a little boy with a smiling face and a rucksack on his back.
He was meant to start school last month. But Daniel, who was reading fluently at the age of two, will never
Multiple British medics are excusing and even celebrating brutal attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel, MailOnline can reveal today.
Charities are demanding NHS medics who get caught spouting the ‘repugnant’ and ‘sickening’ comments be suspended immediately, saying such extreme views ‘fly in the face of the oaths that they have taken’.
Their calls come after this website exposed a string of abhorrent posts by one medic on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Dr Mennah Elwan mocked terrified festivalgoers fleeing Hamas
Before any major operation key members of the surgical team meet to discuss logistics – but it is rare to find as eminent and wide-ranging a group as the one assembled at Oxford’s Churchill hospital one chilly morning last February.
Not just the health but the happiness of two very special patients was at stake. In a ground-breaking British first, a 40-year-old woman (a mother of two) was about to donate her womb to her younger sister, in the hope
One in six GPs have failed to provide patients with face-to-face appointments as many medics claim they are unable to meet demand, a new poll has found.
Doctors implemented a virtual appointment protocol during the first covid lockdown, meaning that less than half of patients were examined in-person. Before the pandemic, about 80 per cent of appointments were face-to-face.
NHS England reversed its ‘total triage’ policy, which encouraged doctors to deal with more cases remotely, in 2021 after all patients
For these six healthcare professionals, it’s not enough to spend their working days trying to help others — they have gone one step further by donating one of their kidneys to a stranger.
There is a desperate shortage of donor organs, but it’s particularly acute for kidneys: every year around 250 people die on the waiting list for a kidney transplant.
In 2007 the law in the UK was changed to allow altruistic kidney donation — the first donor, Kay
