9th April 2025

Paramedics are “watching patients die”
The gridlock of patients to hospitals has led to queues of up to 20 ambulances outside casualty departments. In a number of cases, crews have been forced to wait more than 12 hours before handing over patients.

Physicain assistant failure “hairing raising”
The British Madicasl Association (BMA) has compiled a report detailing more than 600 examples of physician associates (PAs) putting patient safety at risk or causing serious harm.

ICB staff to be made redundant
ICBs have been given until the end of May to plan how they will cut their costs. This will involve “reducing costs to cross-system arrangements”. This means merging ICBs into larger groupings.

VIP lane: private company executive arrested
Luxe Listyle Ltd. had no employees, was in thousands of pounds of debts, yet two people involved with the troubled company are being investigated by HMRC for a £25 million frand.