NHS

Stories

• Spends a £10bn a year on temporary staff.

Competence

• More than 4million avoidable deaths since 2001.
• Jessica's cancer was missed 20 times by GPs. A single private consultation gave the correct diagnosis.
• Autism diagnosis wait times hit 300 days.
• GP surgeries could be earning £1b per year from patients who don't exist.
• Rugby player waited more than 5hours in agony for ambulance and then developed sepsis in Bristol hospital.
• Hospital staff in William Harvey Hospital deliberately slowed down operations to limit the number of patients they had to see.
• More than 30 members of staff from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have been suspended amid an ongoing investigation after maltreatment of patients and falsification of mental health observations.
• Whistleblowers accuse Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust of poor culture that led to deaths of babies that could have been avoided.

Tavistock Transgender Clinic

• More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to Tavistock transgender clinic.
• Tavistock patient says she feels like an "experiment gone wrong" after mastectomy made her feel a lot worse.
• An independent review found it was "not safe".
• 382 children aged six and under were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service run by Tavistock.
• The clinic had no lower age limit on referrals.
• Tavistock are unable to provide figures on those who have undergone physical interventions.
• Many former staff from Tavistock facility set up private gender clinic Gender Plus.
• An independent review warned there was not enough research on the impact of hormones prescribed by Tavistock.
• Tavistock had a policy of an unquestioning affirmative approach to gender identity.