#Patient Rights

Articles (5)

• 🇬🇧 Women feel coerced during maternity care in England, charity says — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Birthrights report says women are being told they are ‘not allowed’ and are being denied genuine choice</p><p>Women feel put under pressure to have medical procedures such as caesareans ...

  Related: #Maternity Care
• 🇺🇸 She was an active 69-year-old, but records said she was dying in hospice — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  A CBS News analysis of records for every hospice operating in Los Angeles County finds indications of fraud are growing. Adam Yamaguchi reports.

  Related: #Medical Error
• 🇺🇸 Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.

  Related: #Medical Ethics, #Bioethics
• 🇬🇧 Assisted dying on Welsh NHS a step closer as Senedd votes in favour — 24/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  In major vote Senedd backs legislation which could allow for terminally ill people to end their lives.

  Related: #Medical Ethics, #Legislative Process
• 🇺🇸 Renowned surgeon allegedly faked records to block patients' liver transplants — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to receive a liver transplant, federal prosecutors say.

  Related: #Medical Ethics, #Healthcare Fraud, #Transplant System Integrity