Resident doctors across the NHS are spending four times more on paperwork than with patients, a new national study has revealed.The research – called the TACT Study and carried out by scientists at Imperial College, London – is the first of its kind in the UK. It shows doctors in training spend just 18% of…
A father in China who has been criticised for locking his naked toddler son in an iron cage claims the pen was purely used to prevent the boy from wandering. On June 16, several naked toddlers were spotted on a red tricycle parked by the roadside in Hainan province, southern China, and one of them…
A Hong Kong charity group has logged more than double the number of hotline calls from professionals working with minors, after the passage of a mandatory reporting bill on suspected child abuse. NGO Against Child Abuse on Thursday released data showing it received a total of 1,059 calls to its hotline handling suspected abuse reports…
The girlfriend of a Hong Kong dancer severely injured after an accident at a Mirror concert has accused CUHK Medical Centre of neglecting him after he fell from a support sling due to a loose safety buckle. The centre on Friday evening confirmed a patient had fallen while being moved using the sling, while pledging…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 22-year-old mother on suspicion of neglecting her baby daughter by leaving the girl alone in a flat during the early hours of Monday morning. The force said a report was filed at around 4am that alleged the nine-month-old baby had been left in the flat, located on Mong Kok’s…