Health

The senior midwife Donna Ockenden has told this programme that accountability of NHS managers needs to be examined, following the Lucy Letby scandal. There have been calls for more regulation following Letby’s sentencing last week, after a number of consultants raised concerns to senior management which they say were ignored. Ms Ockenden is currently leading…

More than 100 schools across England need to find temporary classrooms after potentially dangerous concrete was discovered. But the problem of RAAC concrete goes wider than school buildings – it features across the NHS estate as well. Krishnan spoke to Sir Julian Hartley, who’s the Chief Executive of NHS Providers and asked him about the…

For the first time in NHS history, junior doctors and consultants in England are to go on strike at the same time. The move, confirmed this afternoon by the BMA, is a major escalation in their long-running dispute with the government over pay.

When Matthew Fowler set up the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign, it started as a Facebook support group of 6 people. But by March 2021, it had evolved into a registered organisation with a small team. 

Australia is notorious as a haven for all sorts of exotic and dangerous creatures and critters, but imagine the shock and horror when neurosurgeons in Canberra pulled out a live, three-inch worm from a 64-year-old woman’s brain.

We spoke to London mayor Sadiq Khan.

Another controversial anti pollution strategy – London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone – has just been expanded to the whole of Greater London – meaning drivers whose vehicles don’t meet minimum emission standards will have to pay a daily £12.50 fee. The city’s mayor Sadiq Khan said it would help five million people breathe cleaner air.…

As the official Covid-19 Inquiry gets underway, Leshie Chandrapala is demanding to know why key workers were not better protected.

Lucy Letby’s appalling crimes were a terrible betrayal of trust which have shocked and sickened staff throughout the NHS, England’s chief nursing officer has said – promising that the health service will learn “every possible lesson”.

We spoke to Paul Whiteing, Chief Executive of the patient group ‘Action against Medical Accidents’ and Lottie King who runs the charity Leo’s, which supports families with children in neonatal care.

We spoke to two cancer specialists, Professor Karol Sikora and Professor David Sebag-Montefiore.

Higher rates of maternal mortality among Black women isn’t just an issue in the United States – here in the UK, Black women are up to four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women. We spoke to the Labour MP and black maternal health advocate Bell Ribeiro-Addy and asked her…

Dr Vishal Sharma is a Consultant Cardiologist in Liverpool, who chairs the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee.

A new law has been passed which aims to curb the impact strikes can have, allowing ministers to impose minimum levels of service.

Manufacturers insist vaping helps people quit smoking and is preferable to cigarettes.