Tackling health anxiety could save NHS over £400m a year, study finds

Tackling health anxiety could save NHS over £400m a year, study finds

Researchers find people who have had a serious illness fear it will happen again and symptoms persist when nothing is wrong The NHS could save more than £420m a year by offering treatment for health anxiety and “cyberchondria”, a psychological ailment caused by people obsessively looking up their symptoms online, a study has estimated. The study, funded…

Ministers drop ‘misguided’ plans to privatise NHS Professionals

Ministers drop ‘misguided’ plans to privatise NHS Professionals

Labour welcomes U-turn on sell-off of employment agency that supplies doctors and nurses to hospitals The government has abandoned plans to privatise an NHS employment agency it owns that supplies doctors and nurses to hospitals to ease their understaffing. Labour welcomed what it called “a major U-turn on a misguided policy from a government with no solution…

Worst nurse shortage ever as NHS exodus leads to fears for patient safety with record 40,000 vacancies unfilled

Worst nurse shortage ever as NHS exodus leads to fears for patient safety with record 40,000 vacancies unfilled

Britain’s top nurse Janet Davies speaks out as it emerges the health service faces an “unprecedented” crisis Large numbers of NHS nurses are ­quitting because of staff shortages and poor pay, it is claimed today. Britain’s top nurse Janet Davies spoke out as it emerged the health service faced an “unprecedented” crisis with the number of unfilled…

‘Listen to women’: UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis

‘Listen to women’: UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis

Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose Years of pain, but no diagnosis: one woman’s experience of endometriosis Doctors are being advised to listen to what women tell them about crippling pelvic and period pain and look out…

Refugee doctors to fill Lincolnshire NHS staff shortages

Refugee doctors to fill Lincolnshire NHS staff shortages

Refugee doctors are to be retrained to work in the NHS in Lincolnshire to help tackle staff shortages. The Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project said it hoped to train up to 10 medics in the first recruitment phase. They would be given the language help and professional mentoring required for them to work in the NHS,…