Hillary Clinton’s campaign has said the Democratic presidential candidate is going to stop using a story about an uninsured pregnant woman in Ohio who died because a hospital turned her away.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
The Northern Scot - Bitter twist in cancer drug fight
By Chris Saunderson
Published: 07 March, 2008
A MORAY cancer patient who had to fight to have drug treatment to prolong his life paid for by the NHS has been told the drug is no lon-ger working.
BBC News - 300,000 prescriptions lost by NHS
Thousands of prescription forms, carrying the names and addresses of patients, go missing every year as they are transported around the NHS.
The Press Association - NHS 'allowed nurse to lose sight'
A retired nurse refused treatment for her failing eyesight said she was told she would have to go blind in one eye before she could have NHS treatment on the other.
Cora Slade, 74, from Sidmouth, Devon, cares for her 76-year-old husband Don, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, said: "Who is going to look after him if I go blind?"
The Telegraph - 97pc of GPs do not trust Labour with NHS
By Kate Devlin
Last Updated: 1:36am GMT 07/03/2008
Doctors have launched a stinging attack upon Government tactics that they say have forced them to extend surgery opening hours.
Many said they felt they had been "railroaded" into accepting the proposals to work extra hours, a British Medical Association poll found.
The BMA found that 97 per cent of GPs said they no longer trust ministers to run the health service.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Reason Magazine - The Egalitarian Cruelty of the NHS
Even if you're accustomed to hearing horror stories about Britain's National Health Service, this one is really appalling. Debbie Hirst, a woman with metastasized breast cancer, wanted to take Avastin, a drug that, per The New York Times, is "widely used in the United States and Europe to keep such cancers at bay." The NHS refused to pay for it, saying it was too expensive.
Guardian Unlimited - Second world war pilot to take NHS protest to No 10
* Haroon Siddique
* guardian.co.uk,
* Friday February 22 2008
A second world war pilot who has been denied NHS treatment to save his failing sight will take his protest to Downing Street today.
Jack Tagg, 88, is suffering from age-related wet macular degeneration in his right eye, which attacks central vision, leaving only peripheral vision.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk - Elderly care blunders cost NHS
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 3:31am GMT 13/02/2008
The NHS has been forced to pay out more than £180 million in compensation to thousands of elderly people who were wrongly charged for care.
About two thirds of the pensioners had to sell the family home to meet costs which should have been paid for by the state. Some have already died.
Llanelli Star - PATIENTS SUE NHS AFTER DOC'S ERRORS
Patients are suing the NHS for compensation in the wake of mistakes made by a consultant pathologist at a Llanelli hospital.
Telegraph.co.uk - NHS reform leaves hospitals short of medics
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Last Updated: 1:49am GMT 14/02/2008
The junior doctors recruitment shake-up has left a shortage of medics on the wards raising concerns over cancelled operations and poor patient care, a survey has found.
Times & Star - Widow fights on to keep cancer drug on the NHS
THE WIFE of a Workington cancer victim who spent the last months of his life fighting for a new drug to be made available on the NHS is dismayed that it may now be withdrawn.
Monday, February 11, 2008
New Blog Site
If you get a chance, check out my new blog site: www.saynotopork.com
I am not talking about the other white meat either. We are all sick and tired of the pork barrel (earmarks) spending in Washington.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk - Patients leave hospital malnourished
The number of patients leaving hospital malnourished has almost doubled in a decade, with one in five now affected, experts said yesterday.
Selby Times - Dying woman in NHS battle
Terminally-ill Rose Harrison, of Barlby, spent six months begging North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust to fund the new life-prolonging drug Sunitib, but was eventually forced to pay the £10,000 cost herself.
The Scotsman - Depressed Scots forced to wait for help
By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent
PATIENTS across Scotland are struggling to access psychological help for depression, with many forced to wait months to see a specialist, figures seen by The Scotsman reveal.
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