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LONDON (AP) – A long-awaited inquiry opened Tuesday in Britain into how contaminated blood was used to treat thousands of people in the 1970s and ’80s, killing at least 2,400.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock ordered the National Health Service (NHS) to fulfill its scheduled blood drives in south-east England after it cancelled some events should the UK leave the EU without a deal.

A review into mother and baby deaths and serious injuries at an NHS hospital trust — labelled potentially the UK’s deadliest failure at a maternity unit — has been widened to cover 215 families.

A government-funded study has found that 71 per cent of baby deaths or neonatal brain injuries could have been avoided if the National Health Service (NHS) had given better care.

Infant deaths in England and Wales could be 138 percent higher than similarly developed countries by 2030, the Royal College of Paediatrics has warned.

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As many as 60 mothers and babies may have died or suffered serious injury as a result of failings at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust in what may be the UK’s deadliest failure in a maternity unit.

Britain has been celebrating the 70th birthday of the National Health Service (NHS) with services in Westminster Abbey, a specially commissioned symphony, eulogies from government ministers, and endless hagiographies on the BBC.

Dr. Will provides vivid examples of why the NHS does not deserve its reputation as the “envy of the world” and why socialized medicine is not the answer to our more complicated health requirements.

Straight-A students are being turned away from British medical schools and forced to pay for training in Eastern Europe, while the National Health Service (NHS) plunders the Third World for already-trained doctors instead.

Leading pro-Brexit Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has slammed Theresa May’s government for seemingly breaking an election promise and moving towards tax hikes to fund the UK’s socialised healthcare system.

A study has found that the National Health Service (NHS) is the third worst out of 18 Western nations at treating life-threatening illnesses and has a higher than average rate for newborn infant mortality.

The new Home Secretary will unveil a major relaxation of immigration rules, for the first time in eight years, to encourage thousands of skill migrants to arrive before Brexit.

The UK taxpayer will hand over around £20,000 so a transgender murderer, accused of having sex with women in female prisons, can be flown hundreds of miles for a surgical sex change.

Britain’s Nationa Health Service (NHS) will lower its standards by making it harder to sack doctors who kill their patients. This follows claims that sanctions are having a “chilling effect” on the profession — despite recent, high-profile failures being allowed to slide without punishment.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has told the government it needs to find its “nerve” to raise taxes and increase borrowing to prop up the struggling National Health Service (NHS).

The chief executive of a major hospital trust has slammed “white privilege” in the National Health Service (NHS), demanding the public healthcare service put more ethnic minorities in top jobs.

The UK is set to save more than £100 million after deciding to pull out of European Parliament elections in May next year.

John Zmirak, senior editor at TheStream.org, joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Sam Sorbo for a Friday interview on Breitbart News Tonight. He described recent events surrounding Alfie Evans as illustrative of state usurpation of parental rights and responsibilities over children.

LONDON (AP) – Alfie Evans, the sick British toddler whose parents won support from Pope Francis during a protracted legal battle over his treatment, died early Saturday. He was 23 months old.

An illegal immigrant from Albania who used a fake ID to get a kidney transplant, costing the National Health Service (NHS) more than £72,000, has been imprisoned.

The parents of toddler Alfie Evans have launched a fresh legal appeal to stop their son being taken off life support. 

A refugee family is set for a multi-million-pound NHS payout because a mother spoke no English and hospital staff did not explain to her how to care for her newborn in her native language.

The parents of critically ill baby Alfie Evans have lost their European Union court fight to stop doctors removing their son from life support.

The UK government and NHS workers have jumped to defend the socialized healthcare system after President Trump criticized it, despite it facing its worst crisis in decades and fellow employees protesting that the system is broken.

The British Journal of General Practice has urged the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to display LGBT rainbow flags in waiting rooms.

Biological women who legally define themselves as men will not be routinely scanned for breast and cervical cancer, even if they retain these organs and remain at risk, the National Health Service (NHS) has said.

The number of people forced to wait long periods in ambulances rose dramatically during the Christmas period, whilst Britain’s hospitals were dangerously full.

All hospitals in Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) have been ordered to cancel all non-emergency operations until at least the end of this month, as the worst winter crisis in 30 years takes hold.

LONDON (AP) — British health officials are considering turning to so-called drunk tanks to ease the strain on emergency rooms and ambulance services caused by heavy drinkers.

An NHS health survey given out in schools is asking children aged ten whether they are “comfortable in their gender”, as well as whether they are a boy, a girl or “other”.

Tony Blair has confirmed that he is actively working to overturn the Brexit vote, claiming “the will of the people is not something immutable”.

Convicted sex offender Imran Rauf Qureshi will not be struck off for his attack on a student nurse.

A high court judge has implied it is right for unaccompanied child asylum seekers to be given preferential access to taxpayer-funded medical treatment and desirable school places.

The Care Quality Commission has accused Marie Stopes, Britain’s second-largest abortion provider, of paying staff bonuses to encourage terminations, and harassing mothers who change their minds to accept a new appointment.

Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) is planning to ban obese patients and smokers from having surgery unless they lose weight or kick the habit.