Professor Harold Ellis, 93, qualified as a doctor in July 1948 and immediately began training as a surgeon in the service's earliest days
The veteran BBC presenter said overweight people could stop the country being overpopulated if they die a decade earlier than the rest of the population.
Labour says the Government is simply releasing funds which ministers had previously blocked.
One health think tank said the sum ‘will only be a fraction’ of what is needed.
Boris Johnson's claims that Gatt 24 could be used to avoid tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit under WTO rules were debunked by an inluential commitee of MPs.
Staff working for contractor Compass have voted unanimously to strike after their appeals for a modest pay rise were shunned.
In May and June, 119,320 patients waited on a trolley in A&E for more than four hours.
Dr Google and hypochondria have become synonymous of late, with research last year revealing that searches for serious health conditions have increased by thousands of percentage points over the last three years.
NHS waiting lists are soaring because senior doctors are refusing to take on extra work in order to protect their pensions, health leaders have warned. NHS Providers said it was hearing from hospital trusts whose consultants and senior managers are declining shifts, which is having a massive impact on patient ...