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Lucinda Hiam

Lucinda Hiam is a GP, UK lead at Doctors of the World, and a research fellow at the London School od Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

NHS at 70: A timeline of the National Health Service and its crisis

I've seen people have their chemo stopped and surgery refused

Founded on the principles of being based on clinical need, not ability to pay, the idea of being refused healthcare because of being unable to afford the bill is alien to most of us

How the UK is denying life saving treatments due to immigration status

A huge number of measures of the nation’s health have deteriorated, including a very rapid and largely unreported recent increase in the numbers of deaths among mental health patients in care

Health & Families

There has been a rapid rise in mortality in England and Wales

On 1 March 2018, ONS announced that there had been “noticeable falls in female life expectancy at birth in the 20 per cent most deprived populations in England”.

10,000 more people than expected died at the beginning of the year

Research found that two thirds of pregnant women had not had their first antenatal appointment by 10 weeks, as per national guidance

Home Office snatching of NHS data is putting migrant women at risk