Chris Ham at the King’s Fund writes: Services are at full stretch and struggling to maintain standards The annual assessment of health and social care by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) provides a veritable treasure trove...
The NHS is experiencing the longest and most severe slowdown in funding in its history. This has raised questions about the sustainability of its funding model. The way that health care is funded varies between...
Health tourists have saddled the NHS with a staggering £62million in unpaid bills. Sick foreigners swoop into Britain for care and then jet home – leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab. One patient...
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...
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...
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...
A family stricken with a potentially deadly heart condition has inspired three schools to instal life-saving defibrillator machines. Pamela Statham and her daughters Jessica and Frankie all have Long QT syndrome, which scan disrupt heart...
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