background recent british national health service (nhs) reforms, in response to austerity and alleged ‘health tourism,’ could impose additional barriers to healthcare access for non-european economic area (eea) migrants. this study explores policy reform challenges and implications, using excerpts from the perspectives of non-eea migrants and health advocates in london.   methods a qualitative ...

When the National Health Service (NHS) was founded in 1948, the consultants–medical and surgical specialists–could only be persuaded to come on board by giving them contracts which allowed them to pursue private practice outside the time they devoted to their NHS work. Nye Bevan, the health minister at the time, was accused of " stuffing their mouths with gold, " and many felt the NHS practice ...

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Programme, The Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Department of Neuropsychiatry, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscien...

Thyrotoxicosis in an Elderly Patient Simulating Infectious Gastroenteritis Moe TO1*, Htwe TH2, Yin TA3 and Ani T2 1Department of Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS, Birmingham, UK 2Department of General Internal Medicine, Heart of England NHS, Birmingham, UK 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster and Ba...