Shaun Lintern
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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Gas and air ban in hospitals leaves mums-to-be in agony
When Amy Fantis gave birth to her first child two years ago, the labour was rapid, lasting only about four hours, and she was reliant on gas and air. Her second baby is due in just a few days — but the hospital has, like others around Britain, imposed a ban on the popular form of pain relief.Fantis, → Read More
Prepare for a spring of strikes as nurses get paid more on the picket line
The Royal College of Nursing is passing donations on to members as it increases strike pay to £120 a day → Read More
General strike 2023: Fresh threat to co-ordinate action
Trade unions have vowed to “co-ordinate” strike action for maximum damage this year after the worst month for industrial unrest in a generation. Leaders of the RMT, Unite and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represent almost 1.5 million workers in dozens of industries, have said → Read More
‘I feel like I killed my son’: epilepsy drug sodium valproate link to death
The first death linked to an epilepsy drug that can be extremely dangerous if taken during pregnancy has been recorded by a coroner, sparking fears for thousands of other families.Manchester West’s coroner, Peter Sigee, said exposure in the womb to sodium valproate had left Jake Aldcroft with disabi → Read More
Water jabs and burning herbs offered during natural births at NHS hospitals
Trusts accused of pseudoscience and putting mothers-to-be in danger by offering alternative treatments → Read More
Nurses’ strikes to be led by steely union head forged in the Troubles
Pat Cullen has spent months galvanising support. There are now fears that other NHS workers will vote to take action → Read More
Why is Britain still lagging behind on cancer care?
Cancer patients in this country should have the best survival chances in the world. With its universal healthcare system and world-leading researchers, the UK should be able to offer every patient the knowledge and reassurance that their disease will be picked up quickly and treated rapidly, with th → Read More
Surgeon branded bully faces review after patient, 17, dies
Catherine O’Connor, who was born with spina bifida and used a wheelchair all her life, was looking forward to the surgery to fix her twisted spine. She would b → Read More
Dying patients go without care as community nurses ‘on their knees’
Exclusive: ‘We are seeing people who have been doing this for years and are now on their knees and saying they can’t do the jobs they trained to’ → Read More
Analysis: Treasury’s dead hand over NHS policy is the biggest patient safety threat
As MPs reject a plan to improve NHS workforce planning, Health Correspondent Shaun Lintern warns of the consequences → Read More
Rogue surgeon Ian Paterson loses bid for appeal against conviction
Court judges hear rogue surgeon Ian Paterson continues to deny misconduct → Read More
Midwives receiving less training in key areas of safety and equality, new report warns
‘These problems existed before the pandemic and have only become worse’ → Read More
NHS hospital at centre of cover up claims after woman died following repeated paracetamol overdose
‘For two days solid, they were pumping her with too much IV paracetamol. It’s all there in the notes’ → Read More
NHS trust fined £2.5m over deaths of two A&E patients
‘It is clear that had the trust reacted to the concerns of the CQC in a timely fashion then this double tragedy may not have unfolded’ → Read More
Campaigners say ‘decolonise the curriculum’ to help solve UK maternity inequalities
The Independent’s health correspondent Shaun Lintern hosted an exclusive virtual panel event discussing maternity inequalities in the UK → Read More
Analysis: Once again the vulnerable will suffer most from the Tories’ social care plans
Analysis: Health correspondent Shaun Lintern examines the details of how the government’s social care plan will work → Read More
Covid weekly deaths return to levels last seen in March
NHS chief warns NHS under pressure with 6,864 Covid patients in hospital → Read More
Ministers could be forced to make NHS workforce plans public
‘No one on the frontline has the remotest idea if we are training enough people for the future’ → Read More
Ambulance delays outside hospitals are harming 160,000 patients, leaked report warns
Exclusive: As many as 12,000 patients a year could be suffering severe harm as a result of long waits outside A&E → Read More
Javid urged to call in military to help NHS cope
‘You cannot stand by while people are dying because they cannot get a hospital bed or ambulance crews are unable to reach them’ → Read More