Exclusive: More than 500 children a day in England are being referred to NHS mental health services for anxiety. In 2023-24, there were 204,526 new referrals. In 2019-20, the year before Covid-19 struck, the total was 98,953. In 2016-17, it was 3,879.
Regulator to review safety concerns over medicines courier used by NHS
Private company Sciensus has struggled to provide reliable service, Guardian investigation finds
Private firms harming NHS patients by failing to deliver medicines, Lords report warns
‘Real and serious problems’ in UK medical homecare sector going unaddressed due to failures in regulation, damning review says
Watchdog repeatedly told about private NHS medicines courier
Ombudsman has received 18 official requests to examine grievances against Sciensus since August last year
Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after the UN chief, António Guterres, called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.
Lords to investigate private health firms used to deliver NHS drugs
Move follows Guardian investigation of botched, delayed or missed deliveries by homecare medicine provider Sciensus
Seriously ill children put at risk by firm’s failure to deliver NHS medication
Parents say Sciensus let children down with botched or missed deliveries, and NHS medics warn some are suffering avoidable harm
The first 10,000 mpox vaccines are finally due to arrive in Africa this week, where a dangerous new strain of the virus has caused global alarm, weeks after they were made available to more than 70 countries outside the continent.
Exclusive: Scientists have developed a “holy grail” insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real-time and could revolutionise treatment for millions of people with type 1 diabetes worldwide.
Sciensus’s licence partly suspended after death of cancer patient
Regulator acts after firm paid millions by NHS for healthcare gave patients wrong chemotherapy dose
Patient dies and three hospitalised in Sciensus chemotherapy incident
Regulators investigate after patients harmed by unlicensed treatment from firm paid millions by NHS
UK patients: share your experiences with the healthcare company Sciensus
The company is paid by the NHS to provide healthcare at home and transport vital drugs and medical items to about 200,000 patients
Medicines courier Sciensus was warned it was failing patients three years ago
Haemophilia Society wrote to boss Darryn Gibson about dangers of missed deliveries and patients remain at ‘very serious’ risk
‘Her pain has come back’: sick child left without medicine by courier used by NHS
The mother of Autumn Powell, 8, says her daughter got more unwell after Sciensus failed to deliver
Private health firm Sciensus fails to fix defects that led to UK patient’s death
Regulator extends part-suspension of licence to July 2024 after IT blunder caused incorrect dosage of cancer treatment
NHS ombudsman warns Sciensus that patients ‘should not be ignored’
Boss of courier given 28 days to improve complaints system after reports of vital drugs being delayed or missed