Almost half of patients who were given a controversial type of bowel surgery should not have been operated on, a hospital trust has admitted. North Bristol NHS Trust has told 57 patients at Southmead Hospital in Bristol they should have been offered alternative treatment first. Surgeon Tony Dixon was suspended in 2017 after concerns were […]
The last place in England to offer publicly-funded homeopathy could stop providing the practice on the NHS. Bristol’s clinical commissioning group (CCG) is meeting to discuss ending NHS-funded homeopathic treatment except in exceptional circumstances. Homeopathy is based on the idea “like cures like”, but many scientists say patients are only getting sugar. The British Homeopathic […]
Almost 200 bowel surgery patients are being recalled over concerns about the clinical treatment they received. It follows an investigation by the BBC which revealed the surgeon who pioneered the use of mesh to treat rectal prolapse has been suspended. The consultant carried out surgery at Southmead Hospital and at the private Spire Hospital in […]