Serious patient safety issues are being buried in confidential hospital reports, BBC Panorama has found. Freedom of Information requests revealed 111 reports, written by medical royal colleges, which NHS trusts have a duty to share. Eighty reports were given to the BBC but only 26 had been shared in full with regulators, and 16 published. […]

Thursday 20 May marks one year since Max and Keira’s Law (Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2020) came into effect in England, which saw the country shift to an ‘opt out’ system for organ donation. The law means that people in England are considered as willing to donate, unless they have opted out, are in

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the coronavirus variant first found in India last year as a “variant of global concern”. It said preliminary studies show the B.1.617 mutation spreads more easily than other variants and requires further study. The variant has already spread to more than 30 countries, the WHO says. Three other

  Doctors in Canada have been coming across patients showing symptoms similar to that of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare fatal condition that attacks the brain. But when they took a closer look, what they found left them stumped. Almost two years ago, Roger Ellis collapsed at home with a seizure on his 40th wedding anniversary.

  The difficulty in diagnosing and managing chronic childhood asthma is the focus of the latest Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch report. Published on World Asthma Day, it sets out the case of a five-year-old child who had a near fatal asthma attack. The child, who had a number of previous planned as well as emergency visits to