GP faked assault to get patient off his books: UK tribunal
A GP took “increasingly desperate” actions to get a patient to change practices, including offering a bribe and faking an assault, a UK tribunal has…
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‘Act of desperation’: GPs take industrial action to protest NHS funding
GPs in England are taking industrial action to protest a 1.9% NHS funding rise, after a near-unanimous vote from the British Medical Association’s GP members.…
Is this surgeon still the ‘face of NHS idiocy’?
Mr Joseph Meirion Thomas is a British surgeon who knows how to wield a knife — particularly when it comes to his GP colleagues. A…
Why are UK doctors taking legal action against their own medical board?
One of the questions bamboozling doctors in the UK is why the country’s medical board is about to start regulating unregistered practitioners pretending to be…
The place where ‘cancer specialists’ and ‘physicians’ don’t need medical degrees — welcome to the NHS
It has been described as a “duplicitous, dishonest and reckless” new low for doctors in the UK — a poster campaign directed at patients with…
UK Govt places emergency ban on private scripts for puberty blockers
The UK has imposed an emergency ban on private puberty blocker prescriptions for gender dysphoria, effectively preventing all doctors from prescribing them outside of clinical…
A GP has been banned for climate activism — what are the implications for other doctors?
Dr Maria Neira, director of the WHO’s Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, has called climate change “potentially the greatest health challenge of the…
Infected blood scandal and cover up a ‘day of shame’ for UK: report released
An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3000 deaths and…
As a GP who provides gender-affirming care, I’m rattled by the UK move against puberty blockers
The UK’s Cass Review should not be a blueprint for gender-affirming care in Australia. Headed by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, the NHS-commissioned review recommends against…
GP practice error in recording a child’s weight may have resulted in his death 17 years later: UK coroner
Alex Reid died in 2021 from COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. It was just six weeks after his second dose of…
