Rawlstock/Getty Images Dr Mark Watson’s actions consisted of sexual harassment, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said A doctor accused of pouring beer down a younger colleague’s cleavage before licking it off and touching her breasts has been suspended for a year. Dr Mark Johnson, who was working at West Suffolk Hospital at the time of … Read more
BBC Becky and Tom Williams want safer maternity care for women after their six-day-old daughter died A couple whose six-day-old daughter’s death sparked national reform in maternity care for mothers say it will “change lives”. Mabel Williams suffered fatal brain injuries after her mum, Becky Williams, had an undiagnosed uterine rupture during labour at Great … Read more
Lisa Summers,Scotland health correspondent and Andrew Picken Lori Quate Jacqui Hunter died giving birth to her stillborn daughter, Olivia Just a week before she was due to give birth, Jacqui Hunter was given the devastating news that her daughter had died in the womb. Less than 24 hours later, Jacqui was also dead. The 39-year-old … Read more
Contributed Iris Scott, 73, was a patient at the Crystal Centre in Chelmsford A woman who took her own life while on a mental health ward had been threatened and bullied by staff, her family told a public inquiry. Iris Scott, 73, was a patient at the Crystal Centre in Chelmsford, run by the Essex … Read more
Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara heads the Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education (SSAHE) in Tumakuru. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K The High Court of Karnataka has directed Home Minister G. Parameshwara-headed Sri Siddartha Academy of Education (SSAHE), Tumakaru (a deemed to be university), to pay a compensation of ₹15 lakh to a student … Read more
Catrin Nye and Adam Eley BBC News Getty Images Baby food manufacturers must cut levels of salt and sugar in their products and stop promoting snacks for babies under the age of one, the government has said. The new guidance would also restrict the use of marketing claims that suggest health benefits without scientific evidence. … Read more
Emilia Belli Westminster correspondent, BBC Wales News Mel Wallace Mel Wallace was a keen motorbike rider but now, as she waits for a hip replacement, she struggles to put her own socks on NHS patients from Wales who need knee and hip operations in England face lengthy delays after a health board asked English hospitals … Read more
Police Commissioner N. Shashikumar speaking at Gurudev Sambhrama in Dharwad recently. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Setting a clear goal combined with self-confidence will simplify the path to success in competitive examinations, Police Commissioner of Hubballi-Dharwad N. Shashikumar has said. He was inaugurating Gurudev Sambhrama, a felicitation programme organised by Gurudev IAS, KAS and Banking … Read more
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental … Read more
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental … Read more