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Monthly Archive: March 2015
Pharmacists – A ‘hidden Army’ that could reduce GP waiting times
Charlie Cooper writing in the Independent Daily Briefing – Patients visiting their GP surgery with long-term health problems such as asthma and high blood pressure could be given an appointment with an in-house pharmacist instead...
NHS Tourists Leave £62m in Unpaid Bills
Health tourists have saddled the NHS with a staggering £62million in unpaid bills. Sick foreigners swoop into Britain for care and then jet home – leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab. One patient...
Welfare Benefits – Banardo’s say it’s no ‘Safety Net’
The benefits system is “no longer providing an adequate safety net” for the poorest families, with “devastating effects” for vulnerable youngsters, a children’s charity is warning. In a report on recent changes to the welfare...
Care ‘should be available and free’ at the end of life
People with terminal diseases should be offered more free social care and a greater say in the type of support they receive at the end of their life, MPs said last night. While most people...
A&E – Record Number of Winter Patients
The NHS confirmed that 190,000 more people attended A&E this winter compared with last winter, with 51,000 more admitted into hospital as an emergency case. Attendances spiked in December, but the pressure on hospitals was...
World First Penis Transplant – Makes a Change From…..!
Doctors have carried out the world’s first succesful willy transplant. They performed the surgery on a 21-year-old who lost his manhood in a botched circumcision. A penis from a dead man was grafted on to...
Dodgy Doctors – ‘Clampdown’
Patients are to be given unprecedented powers to lodge complaints against dodgy doctors and NHS chiefs. Sources say top Tories plan to launch a people’s ombudsman after a spate of health scandals. It comes days...
Golfer Cheats £26K from DWP but gets 6 Months Jail
Victoria Austin reports in the Daily Star, today, that a man who pocketed £26,000 in disability benefits while winning golf tournaments has been jailed for six months. Alan Bannister exaggerated his arthritis for eight years...
Damning Report on GP Access for Disabled People
Deaf Brits are being told they can book a GP appointments only by phone, a damning report claims. And a blind patient was sent medical letters by his family doctor that he could not see...