NHS Providers last week called for physical and mental health to be treated equally by the NHS. The action plan is to provide ‘values driven, patient centred, and staff enabled’ mental health care. The disproportionate levels of funding, mental health problems account for 20% of the disease burden but only receives 10% of NHS spending. …
The UK is trapped in a “mental health crisis,” according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, with demand for services soaring. This could be said about many other services in the NHS. People are complex beings not uniform machines this is why medicine is interesting. Assessing ill people takes skill and time. Skill is learnt …
Who was Brian Thompson, the US healthcare insurance chief executive who was shot and killed in Manhattan? He had been receiving threats relating to medical “coverage”. Mr Thompson was shot in the back by a masked assailant on 4 December 2024, as he was walking into a hotel where the company, he led was holding …
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