Yesterday Theresa May announced her £20bn "Brexit dividend" spending increase for the NHS, but immediately came under fire, with many claiming her figures were misleading or just plain wrong. The PM told Andrew Marr that: “At the moment, as a member of the European Union, every year we spend significant amounts of ...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies and Health Foundation said the NHS would need an extra 4% a year - or £2,000 per UK household - for the next 15 years. The report said the NHS has been struggling to cope after the toughest financial constraints in its 70-year history had been imposed ...
Charlotte Bonwick needs a variety of medication daily during her life-long battle with ill health - but says she was told to get her clean needles from an exchange usually used by drug addicts.
Rightwinger Chris Chope has put forward legislation that would undermine the principle of an NHS free at the point of use. The Tory MP for Christchurch has tabled a private member’s bill set to be the third to be debated today calling for “co-payment” for NHS treatment. His National Health ...
A hospital trust has been accused of wasting taxpayers' cash after splashing out thousands of pounds on changing the colour of staff uniforms from blue to BROWN. Dudley Group NHS Trust has changed 675 outfits for clinical support workers and ward clerks to a new "biscuit" colour to make staff ...
Colin Hewitt, 72, collapsed at home last Wednesday (28/3) after watching TV and was taken to his local hospital by ambulance after his wife Sue, 70, dialled 999. Because of a shortage of beds at Horton Hospital, in Banbury, Oxon., he was forced to spend the night on a trolley ...
Karen Gray, 43, has been fighting for the legalised prescription of cannabis oil to help son, Murray, who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy.
An NHS oncology nurse forced to crowdfund treatment for her own terminal cancer - as the drug is not available on the NHS has raised tens of thousands of pounds in days and is commencing treatment today. As we reported three days ago brave Laura Harris, 42, has devoted ...
An NHS oncology nurse is being forced to crowdfund treatment for her own terminal cancer - as the drug is not available on the NHS. Brave Laura Harris, 42, has devoted her life to helping cancer patients but has been told there is no treatment available for her own fight ...