‘Shocking’ report on NHS – remains unpublished
Most national media sources this week have run the story of how a “totally shocking” report by one of the country’s most respected businessmen into how the NHS is run was handed into the Department...
Category: Focus on Disability
Drugs Companies Giving Up On Alzheimer’s
James Moore’s comments in the Independent regarding the revelation that drug companies are giving up research on treatments for Alzheimers disease which appears to be nothing less than shameful. Alzheimer’s is a hideous condition that...
£5BN Government Waste – Absolutely ‘Ludicrous’
Careless government departments have created a £5billion black hole in taxpayers money, figures have revealed. It was squandered on a number of gaffes, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance. The Ministry of Defence was the biggest...
2HR Ambulance Delay – Police Call Lifeboat!
An Exclusive in The Sun relates how a cop lay injured for two hours waiting for an ambulance in London – so colleagues called a LIFEBOAT. The officer was in agony from a squashed ankle...
Average waiting for PIP assessment halved – ‘People still left worrying’
The DWP have just released new figures which show that the average waiting time for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has more than halved since last summer. This improvement is due to a range of factors...
‘Universal Credit’ – At Least 200,000 Worse Off !
Nigel Nelson Political Editor of the Sunday People reports that at least 200.000 people will be worse off under the Universal Credit system according to Labour. They are challenging Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan...
Doctors advise ‘sex’ to lose your excess weight !
Several newspapers today have noted that doctors in the UK will be ordering unfit patients to have more sex. Rather than prescribe pills, medics are urging people who need to shed weight to get steamy between the...
Purge on addicts and the obese – ‘benefits crackdown’
The benefits of drug addicts, alcoholics and the obese could be slashed if they refuse treatment. David Cameron has personally ordered a sweeping review of the system to find ways to cut handouts to people...
Contact Lenses to Ease Age-Related Blindness?
Contact lenses that magnify a field of vision like wearable binoculars could help millions of visually impaired people to see clearly, scientists say. The contact lenses, developed at École Polytechnique Fėdėrale de Lausanne in Switzerland...
Whiplash scams – wasting doctors time – “compo” bandwagon!
Whiplash fraudsters are clogging GP surgeries and wasting more than one million hours of doctors’ time every year, claims new research. Family doctors see a staggering 116,000 people every month whom they suspect are inventing...