Monthly Archive: March 2015
James Moore, a wheelchair user and journalist, writing in The Independent, gives his views on how badly disabled people are served. Businesses are losing £1.8bn a month by failing to consider the needs of their...
Articles in several of the press today saying that a health watchdog is asking for plumbers and boiler engineers to report cold homes to the council to slash winter deaths. Around 25,000 extra brits –...
The NHS has sacked 79 bureaucrats after a government probe into tax-dodging. The Treasury have revealed today that the suspects who were employed in 2013 – 2014 could not prove they were “meeting their tax...
Fiona MacRae for the Daily Mail writes how suffering from bereavement, many older people seek help from a GP to cope with the crushing feeling of loneliness. But they are often misdiagnosed with depression –...
A DRUG dealer who peddled cocaine using his disabled mother’s taxpayer-funded Motability car has been jailed. Wayne Elphick, 43, cruised the streets looking for clients in the specially adapted Seat Leon – which was bought...
Public Health England’s (PHE) latest campaign ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ aims to raise an awareness of the signs and symptoms of stomach or oesophageal cancer and promote early diagnosis. According to Public Health England, people...
Hundreds of GP surgeries across Britain could close or merge as demand stretches them to breaking point, figures show. Between April and December last year, 169 practices approached NHS England for advice on the “nuclear...
A DEMENTIA patient has died just weeks after she appeared in video footage begging for food at a scandal-hit care home. Edna Slann’s family say her health rapidly faded when she was placed at Grantley...
Age UK, one of Britain’s biggest charities could be losing millions – because of thefts by its own shop workers. Some volunteers are failing to register the full amount of cash paid at tills or...
Stephen Hayward for the Sunday Mirror reports that PARKING charges at NHS hospitals are rising despite Government promises to tackle the rip-off fees. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt issued new guidelines last August so patients and...