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...
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...
Foreign patients will have to prove they are entitled to free NHS care in a clampdown on health tourism. In order to register with a GP, EU nationals will be required to show their European...
People are ignoring cancer warning signs because they worry about wasting their doctor’s time, a study found. Patients displaying so-called “red flag” symptoms are routinely putting off visiting their GP. Others avoid getting checked out...
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...
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...
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