The mark of a civilised society is how it treats its sick and vulnerable and so whenever technology is broached in healthcare, people are sceptical – particularly if it means removing that all-important human touch.
Judges will no longer be required to give legal permission to end care for patients in a long-term permanent vegetative state if doctors and families agree, the Supreme Court has ruled.
A day after both Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May offered hollow apologies to patients for the ongoing NHS crisis, the health secretary has come under fire for attempting to deflect blame for the problems onto the previous Labour government.
Shortages negatively affecting ability to care for patients
The number of EU nurses registering to work in the UK as fallen by more than 95% since the EU referendum, putting further strain on an NHS.