Monthly Archive: February 2015
Nigel Nelson Political Editor of the Sunday People reports that at least 200.000 people will be worse off under the Universal Credit system according to Labour. They are challenging Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan...
Several newspapers today have noted that doctors in the UK will be ordering unfit patients to have more sex. Rather than prescribe pills, medics are urging people who need to shed weight to get steamy between the...
The benefits of drug addicts, alcoholics and the obese could be slashed if they refuse treatment. David Cameron has personally ordered a sweeping review of the system to find ways to cut handouts to people...
Contact lenses that magnify a field of vision like wearable binoculars could help millions of visually impaired people to see clearly, scientists say. The contact lenses, developed at École Polytechnique Fėdėrale de Lausanne in Switzerland...
Whiplash fraudsters are clogging GP surgeries and wasting more than one million hours of doctors’ time every year, claims new research. Family doctors see a staggering 116,000 people every month whom they suspect are inventing...
Several daily newspapers have, today, highlighted the delays in admitting patients to hospital from A&E because of a shortage of beds. This is leading to “hundreds of deaths per year” in the UK, the royal...
Drink-related deaths in Britain have fallen to there lowest in a decade, figures released have shown. However, low-paid workers such as cleaners and labourers are four times more likely to die than professionals, the Office...
Charlie Cooper of The Independent reports that the only NHS hospital run by a private company has asked for a £10m tax-payer funded bailout. Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is due to be handed back to...
After losing his wife to cancer on Christmas Day, scientist billy Boyle vowed to do all he could to help others who could be saved by an early diagnosis. And now, less than two months...
Private paramedics are being hired at a cost of up to £84 an hour to take the strain off under-resourced NHS ambulance services. Unions say the crew get up to seven times more than health...