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

British doctors have banned a father from visiting his desperately ill baby in hospital, claiming he was verbally abusive during a dispute over whether the boy’s life support should be withdrawn.

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.

A psychologist at the NHS clinic which specialises in children seeking to ‘transition’ has warned that schools’ enthusiastic embrace of LGBT ideology risks harming pupils later in life.

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.

A foreign citizen from outside of the European Union has left a British hospital with a staggering half-million-pound bill for treatment received last year, reports the Daily Mail. Coming among the £2 billion a year treatment given to non-EU resident foreigners,

Controversial former prime minister Tony Blair has embarrassed the so-called ‘Remain Resistance’ by repeating debunked claims that the Brexit vote has created “significant staff shortages in the NHS”.

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.

A woman who requested a female nurse for an intimate procedure was summoned by an “obviously male” member of staff with stubble and tattoos, who claimed to be a transsexual.

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.

Syrian refugees who were resettled in Britain last year are dissatisfied with the NHS, and unhappy about being placed outside of cities, according to a UN report.

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.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton praised the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) for the “excellent care” she received after breaking her toe – just two days before it was revealed that only ONE of the socialised medicine’s hospitals across the country had hit key treatment targets.

Visitors to the canteen of a major London hospital have been left with no choice but to eat halal food, a decision apparently taken despite the Muslim population of the local area being a small minority.

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson has insisted Brexit will not be derailed and will be a huge success — and pledged that yes, the country’s EU membership fee will be redeployed to provide extra funding for the National Health Service.

The NHS will create thousands of posts for British nurses in a bid to slash the £3 billion bill for agency staff, under new plans being drafter by Department of Health officials.

The critically ill infant at the centre of a legal battle over whether he would be allowed to seek experimental legal care in the United State or forced to die in a British hospital has passed away, his parents revealed Friday evening.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard are spending their “last precious moments” with their son after ending a long and hard-fought battle to bring him to the U.S. or the Vatican for treatment.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard have withdrawn their legal bid to bring their son to the United States for treatment, slamming doctors and the courts for “time wasted”.

Protesters who want critically ill British baby Charlie Gard to receive an experimental treatment are planning a rally and prayer vigil and hospital officials say they have received death threats in the heartbreaking case.

Activists have accused the NHS in Scotland of ‘blanket banning’ breast augmentation surgery for transgender people.

The lawyer who speaks for Baby Charlie Gard, the infant fighting for his life against a government order that he should be allowed to die, has been revealed as the chairman of a charity which campaigns to make euthanasia legal in the United Kingdom.

The Gard family’s spokesman Alasdair Seton-Marsden has said ill baby Charlie is “effectively being taken prisoner by the NHS and by the State”.

A ruling on whether the parents of baby Charlie Gard can be taken to the United States for treatment is expected in ten days, after a newly revealed specialist from the United States has examined him.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard have set out to debunk assertions about Charlie’s development, comfort, and quality of life, as they fight to have their son released from hospital to receive experimental treatment in the U.S., standing by their position that as long as Charlie is still fighting “then we’re still fighting”.

More that 5000 new female genital mutilation (FGM) cases were recorded in England last year, with more than 9000 women and girls attending the National Health Service (NHS) due to the gruesome practice.

Leading doctors have said they back NHS-funded womb transplants for biological males who identify as women, a procedure which experts say will be possible within 10 years.

The British Medical Association (BMA), the professional association and trade union for doctors and medical students in the UK, has voted to decriminalise abortion after the current legal limit of 24 weeks. Over 500 delegates debated the motion, presented by

Britain’s leading provider of abortion services has said that requiring a father’s consent before an abortion is carried out is “not desirable”, and that abortion should be “fully tax-payer funded”. In the run-up to the general election next week the

The Conservative Party has been accused of planning to implement the “biggest stealth tax in history” through changes to social care funding, which will see pensioners liable for the cost of their own care.