You Can’t Kick Me Out – I’ve Got Piles – Foreign Crook
A foreign crook up for deportation is still here after claiming he could not leave due to piles. Fraudster Jean Claude Happi Siewe was due to be kicked out last July but insisted he was...
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Charge Drunks for Using A&E Say Brits
Patients who use A&E after getting drunk should pay for treatment, the majority of Brits believe. An exclusive poll for The Sun also found huge support for charging drug users and foreign tourists. Around 80%...
2,ooo Too Fat to Work – Are They Spongers?
More than 2,000 people are living off benefits because they are too fat to work. The number of obese claimants has almost doubled in Britain since 1997. Some experts have blasted the fatties as “lazy”,...
111 Helpline – Reason for Crisis at A&E
So now we know – it’s the NHS 111 service that’s caused 95 per cent of the rise in patients attending A&E. Of the 450,000 extra people who went to A&E last year, 220,000 were...
Home Care Cuts – “Inhumane”
One of the main reasons there is such a crisis in hospitals is that a large number of elderly people are occupying beds because they can’t be sent home. And the reason they can’t is...
Care Home Patients at Risk Through Lack of Water
Staff ‘don’t want them going to the toilet at night’ The Daily Mail reports today regarding elderly care home residents’ lives being put at risk because many staff do not give them enough to drink,...
Fit for Work advice service ‘Goes Live’
The Fit for Work website has closed Advice on returning to work, health conditions and fit notes You can get help and advice with: returning to work after absence information on health conditions information about...
1 in 5 Cancers diagnosed at A&E – Postcode Lottery?
One in five cancers are being diagnosed at A&E – dramatically slashing the patient’s chances of survival. GPs have been partly blamed for not spotting the warning signs early enough. But the National Audit Office...
A&E Crisis – Officials say 5 Years to Repair
The winter crisis in hospital A&E departments could take up to 5 years to sort out, senior health officials warned yesterday. Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England said it would be “foolish” to...
NHS 111 Service – They Ask “Bizzare” Questions
An MP has asked for an urgent review of an NHS helpline after revelations yesterday that patients are being asked nonsensical questions. Liberal Democrat Andrew George claimed the non-emergency 111 service went into “meltdown” in...