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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Matt Dathan writing in The Independent 12/03/15 about the back-hand interests of some MPs. One in four of the MPs who voted against introducing plain cigarette packaging have declared links to tobacco industries in the...
The overweight are to be offered cooking classes and dance workouts on the NHS to combat Britain’s obesity crisis. GPs will offer advice on weight-loss, healthy eating and exercise. The plan will also see overweight...
Emily Dugan writing in The Independent – Older people have been hit with a “double whammy” of cuts to social care and a huge drop in the number of community nurses to help them at...
NHS REFORMS are considered necessary both for modernisation and to cut costs. NHS England hopes to save £22bn by 2020. Five million people in England will have their local NHS services transformed in the first...
Politicians argue about waiting lists and targets, but it’s first hand hospital experience that paints the most telling picture. Sonia Purnell writing in The Independent on Sunday on this years very worrying reports about the...
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