A 93-year-old former nurse honoured with an MBE for her services to the NHS spent SIX DAYS in a hospital corridor with a spinal fracture due to a bed shortage. After a six-hour wait at A&E, former theatre sister Enid Stevens was left in a cubicle on her own for ...
The family of a mother have hit out at what they claim is the "sorry" state of the NHS after she was forced to wait SEVEN hours before doctors treated her broken back following a fall at home. Marion Nash, 61, slipped and took a tumble from the top rung ...
Actor Ralf Little has described the government's plans to increase NHS pay in exchange for sacrificing a day's holiday as a way of giving with one hand and "repeatedly punching in the face with the other". The Royle Family star has been a vocal critic of Jeremy Hunt's handling of ...
Public pressure appears to have played a part in NHS Cornwall’s decision not to privatise a part of it’s service, reports Cornwall Live The county was planning to launch the “Accountable Care System” for health services. It was claimed that this would push the NHS towards privatisation. Protests took place ...
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A disclosure by GP website Pulse have disclosed some very troubling news about the health sector in the UK. The website discovered that in four NHS bodies in England GP practices are given monetary rewards to not send patients into hospital. A freedom of information survey of 181 CCGs by ...
Britain's oldest and longest serving nurse has retired - after 66 YEARS working for the NHS. Dedicated Monica Bulman, 86, started walking the wards in 1952 aged 19 and qualified as a registered nurse five years later. Ever since, the inspirational grandmother has dedicated her life to treating tens of ...
Migrants aren't a threat to the NHS - Losing the migrants that helped build it is That the NHS is acutely and chronically underfunded is an observation so often made as to be banal. Stats released last week showed the depth of the crisis: in January alone, more than 1,000 ...
A GP surgery that serves 6,000 patients is to close claiming the business is "no longer financially viable'' because of pressure on services. The surgery which has been running since 1982 is shutting following a "decline in patient size list" and "a fall in NHS income". Number 18 Surgery in ...