A wheelchair-bound pensioner with cancer faces paying thousands on taxis for hospital appointments after new NHS rules said she was 'independent'. Widow Jennifer Summers, 72, has been in a chair since polio struck aged four and free specialist transport to and from hospital after her husband died five years ago. ...
A cancer patient is furious after he was forced to wait 13-and-a-half HOURS on a hospital trolley in a corridor whilst "half naked". Nick Turner, 54, says he felt like he was in the "third world" as he waited for treatment for a blood infection after chemotherapy for bowel cancer ...
Labour have warned today of a major rise in the amount of NHS land being put up for sale as the Tories’ mismanagement of NHS finances leaves hospitals struggling to cope. Labour have today published new research showing: · The amount of NHS land under consideration for sale has more ...
A former NHS director who was sacked for speaking out against gay adoption has claimed he is being 'ousted from public service' for being a Christian. Richard Page, is bringing a religious discrimination case against the NHS Trust Development Authority after being sacked for comments he made as a magistrate. ...
By Anderona Cole Waking up, wiping your eyes slowly in the morning is a ritual for many, but as each day passed in my late teens, the more I did it, the my more my world began to fade. Aged 21, my optician noted that my discomfort was linked to ...
A shocking indictment of mental healthcare failings and farming out mental health patients to private hospitals emerged in PMQs today, as Louise Haigh asked about a damning report into mental health services in her Sheffield constituency. The MP for Sheffield, Heeley, revealed that a young constituent affected by mental healthcare shortages had ...
The Labour Party are set to reveal that over 12,000 surgical procedures on children and young people have been cancelled in the last year alone. The Labour Party is to announce its intention to make child health “a national priority”, highlighting a series of failings from cancelled operations to staff shortages on children's wards ...
In 1853 in the run up to the Crimean War John Russell quoted Nicholas I of Russia as describing the Ottoman Empire as "the sick man of Europe". Over the years the term has been applied to most failing states within the continent and as 2016 ticked around it was Britain's turn ...
A relieved father has posted an open letter praising paramedics after they saved his little boy’s life when he choked – on a GRAPE. Steve Hulbert feared his son Oli was about to die after he went limp and his lips turned blue after swallowing the fruit. Oli lost consiousness ...