Should the NHS step in to help private health patients remove and replace their potentially faulty breast implants?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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A programme-by-programme guide for the documentary series Desperate Midwives, about the midwives who work at Derby City General hospital.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Staff Tutor for Nursing for The Open University, Michael Davidson, explains why he believes nursing can be a rewarding career choice for men and women.
Category: Health
A revolutionary drug could save lives - but it's expensive. NHS England decide against making it available - but one man wasn't going to accept that decision...
Category: Health
As new treatments come on stream, some carry a huge price tag. Closing the gap between what's possible, and what's affordable, is a challenge for the staff, and patients, of the Hospital.
Category: Health
Instead of 'bed blockers' and statistics, it's important to remember that we're talking about people - and their care needs.
Category: Health
Linda Kenward looks at how hip replacement surgery has become a more common procedure over the years and wonders whether a healthier, longer-living population stretches the NHS's resources
Category: Health
To mark 115 years of the X-Ray, we explore them inside and out.
Category: Health
Some of the debates started by the Open2 community
Category: Health
Tom Heller wonders if prevention might not be better than cure
Category: Health
Former chair of Milton Keynes General Hospital Trust Margaret Hales says that you have to remember the people who can get lost behind NHS statistics and buzzwords
Category: Health
Shirley Reveley finds mixed messages about the role of polyclinics and walk-in centres while watching Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS?: One Year On.
Category: Health
How do attitudes and implementation of CAMs vary around the world? Our whistle-stop tour of the globe gives an insight
Category: Health
Rosey Grandage explores the history of acupuncture's relationship with Western medicine
Category: Health
A surgeon explains what aneurysms are - and how he goes about fixing them.
Category: Health
Got health questions? Ask sister!
Category: Health
John and Peggy provide the crucial services which help the medical staff to function.
Category: Health
We asked the NHS workers featured in the programme a series of questions about the areas in which they work. From paediatric nurse to paramedic, we get the answers first hand from those working on the front line. What are their day-to-day experiences? What are the rewards and frustrations in working in the field they have chosen? Discover what the people behind the treatment really think
Category: Health
Follow our advice on how to find and use online and printed resources about health and the NHS
Category: Health
Our guide to internet resources on the NHS
Category: Health