A new guide available to the public outlines concerns over the value and safety of private testing and over-the-counter home testing kits.
Making Sense of Testing warns that testing can cause harm, especially in well people, and that many are not adequately researched or regulated.
For a copy of the guide, visit www.senseaboutscience.org.uk
A culture of bullying and harassment has been allowed to “persist and fester” at a major hospital maternity department, showing two years’ improvement work had “failed”, a coroner has said.
The government has rejected calls for legislation requiring industry to disclose its payments to the healthcare sector, five years after a major review said statutory rules should be introduced.
The lack of a single patient record across a system led to failures in information sharing, which contributed to a mother’s death, a coroner has concluded.
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