Healthcare

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Oct 5, 2025 • via The Times

The Invisible Doctors: How Britain's Medical Regulator Lost Track of Who It's Licensing

Overseas doctors with serious misconduct records are practicing in the NHS with clean UK licenses

The Sunday Times revealed this week that at least 22 doctors banned or disciplined overseas are practicing in the NHS with clean UK medical licenses. One had sex with patients. Another missed life-threatening conditions on scans. A third sexually harassed colleagues. The General Medical Council either failed to discover these facts or chose not to disclose them.

Sep 29, 2025 • via Telegraph

When Medical Evidence Takes a Back Seat to Cultural Politics

NHS guidance on cousin marriage prioritizes cultural sensitivity over genetic risk

Instead of providing clear medical advice, the NHS has issued guidance that downplays the genetic risks of first-cousin marriage by emphasizing its cultural and economic "benefits." This reflects a troubling trend where political correctness overrides scientific evidence in public health policy.

Jun 30, 2025 • via The Independent

When Prevention Becomes Performance: The NHS AI Alarm System

Monitoring Failures Instead of Fixing Them

The NHS announced an AI system to detect patient safety scandals early, following murders by nurse Lucy Letby and 1,200 deaths at Mid Staffordshire Hospital. While positioned as preventive innovation, the technology monitors failures rather than addressing their root cause: chronic understaffing that leaves single nurses caring for 15+ patients. This represents classic institutional decline - sophisticated failure detection replacing basic competence in prevention.

Jun 23, 2025 • via Telegraph

The NHS Exodus: When Poland Outperforms Britain

British patients now flee to Eastern Europe for procedures their own system can't provide

While politicians continue proclaiming the NHS as the "envy of the world," British patients are now fleeing to Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic for basic medical care their own healthcare system cannot provide. This isn't medical tourism—it's medical refuge, funded by a health service so broken that paying foreign hospitals has become cheaper than fixing domestic capacity.