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%...
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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...
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...
£100m Translation Bill – NHS Tops List
Taxpayers are forking out £100million a year on translation for immigrants, it was revealed last night. Police, town halls, hospitals and courts have to pay for translating documents and hiring interpreters. The biggest spender is...
Career Suicide – Speaking Out In The NHS
Almost two years ago, a cancer surgeon named Joseph Meirion Thomas decided that he could no longer keep quiet about what he regarded as a major abuse of the NHS. The francis Inquiry into the...
Hospitals Just Can’t Cope
Most major daily newspapers today are running headlines regarding Britain’s Accident and Emergency units going into meltdown yesterday as medics struggled to cope with a huge surge in patients. Waiting times grew to 12 hours...
NHS – 6,000 Private Cases Return
More than 6,000 private patients were sent back to the NHS last year, shock figures revealed on Sunday. And more than one in three needed emergency treatment. The 6,067 total – the highest since 2008...