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Bristol: Highest number of mental health patient preventable deaths

Highly vulnerable patients have died after NHS failings. Why?

Sandi Dheensa

Ideas and Action

Member spotlight: the Bristol activist battling Big Pharma

The Just Treatment campaign challenges the pharmaceutical companies charging the NHS rip-off prices for vital drugs.

Lorna Stephenson

City

North Bristol NHS bosses scrap plans to privatise staff management

North Bristol NHS Trust has backed down on plans to transfer management of staff to a private company, after pressure from trade unions and campaigners.

Matty Edwards

Bristol and Beyond

Pregabalin: Bristol’s ‘emerging’ prescription drug problem

As pregabalin and gabapentin are liberally prescribed by GPs — and putting drug users at risk on the black market — the government is taking action.

Matty Edwards

Features

Becky Romero’s family: “Our children deserve better than this”

Family of teenager failed by Bristol’s mental health service demand more funding for the sector.

Hannah Vickers

City

NHS land sold off for housing that nurses can’t afford

Public land is being sold to developers – but the vast majority will be unaffordable for key workers.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

City

NHS cuts hit fertility treatments

The local NHS has angered patients by restricting its criteria for IVF eligibility, at the same time as privatising Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine.

Sid Ryan

Reports

Infertility treatments to be halved under new plans

As central government steps in to drastically cut healthcare in the Bristol region, infertility treatments are set to be halved to save a paltry £1m...

Sid Ryan

Reports

Surprise announcement of A&E overnight closure in Weston

The shock announcement of the temporary overnight closure of Weston General Hospital’s emergency department comes in the wake of a graphic Care Quality Commission report,...

Sid Ryan

Reports