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...
The Government has been heavily criticised after a series of blunders left an elderly pensioner £26,000 worse off. The Pension Service – part of the Department for Work and Pensions – failed to send a...
Tragic story by John Chapman in the Daily Express of how a distraught son has told how he found his mother dead on her living room floor nearly 10 hours after an ambulance was sent...
The Government’s flagship Universal Credit has come under fresh attack after MPs said “very little progress” had been achieved though £700 million had been spent on the scheme since it began five years ago. The...
Awfully sad and depressing statistics show more men are taking their own lives than at any time since 2001, with the highest suicide rates occurring in deprived areas amid growing evidence of the link between...
Patients should be able to top-up their NHS treatment with small monthly payments in return for an ‘enhanced’ service, a report suggests. Allowing people who can afford it to invest extra money would raise billions...
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