Leg Transplant – UK Surgery First
A MOTORCYCLIST who lost part of his leg in a horror road crash is set to have it rebuilt by surgeons in a British first – thanks to a donor’s bones. Stu Jotham, 29, was...
Category: NHS
Patients won’t get vital cancer drug on NHS
The first breakthrough drug for pancreatic cancer in 20 years will not be routinely available on the NHS. Hundreds of patients with advanced disease will be denied Abraxane, which extends life by two months when...
Prescription Fraud Costing NHS £237m
Patients falsely claiming free prescriptions are fleecing the NHS out of more than £200million a year, figures reveal. Officials are concerned people are routinely walking into high street chemists pretending to be unemployed or suffering...
NHS ‘Fails young people’
The Sun newspaper has unveiled how fourteen per cent of young people were unable to see a GP when they last tried, a report has revealed. And thirteen per cent ended up without aid. Patients...
We’re Now Living 6 Years Longer
life expectancy has increased by six years in a generation research has shown. Global life expectancy at birth rose by 5.8 years for men and 6.6 for women between 1990 and 2013. But UK women...
Drug Cash is Killing Cancer Care
Vincent Moss reports in the Sunday Mirror that cancer patients miss out on the most effective treatment because new drugs are being funded at the expense of replacing old radiotherapy machines, Labour has warned. Almost...
£15Billion NHS Pill Bill
The NHS cost as half of woman are on prescription drugs. The Sun newspaper reports that almost half England’s population takes prescription drugs – costing the NHS £15billion a year. Fifty per cent of woman...
Gastric band mum now wants boob job on NHS
A woman who had £23,000 of weight-loss surgery on the NHS now wants a boob job funded by the taxpayer. Beckie Lawton – who weighed 30 stone at her heaviest – had a £9,000 NHS...
NHS OP – Not If You’re Fat Or Smoke!
Fat people have been banned from having NHS operations in a county unless they diet – and smokers are being spurned unless they quit. The blitz in Devon – described as temporary while hospitals there...