If a woman is having a miscarriage or a difficult pregnancy and she visits a Catholic hospital, chances are a priest will diagnose and recommend treatment based on Vatican dogma.
The European Commission has demanded answers after tourists were denied treatment or told to pay big medical bills, despite carrying a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
Ambulances were turned away and sent to other hospitals no fewer than 357 times in 2012/13 – up almost a quarter on the previous year.
Solutions include robots that emit ultraviolet light or hydrogen peroxide.
2013/04/22 – Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the city's hospitals faced a harrowing scene — severed limbs, burned bodies, shrapnel buried in skin.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt reveals plan to blacklist failing hospital bosses in response to the Mid Staffs scandal in which up to 1,200 patients needlessly died.
The NHS will be subject to a new ‘duty of candour’ – a key recommendation in the independent report on Mid-Staffordshire, where hundreds died due to appalling care.
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