By Jessica Taylor At noon on Saturday, March 4, I joined an estimated 250,000 people who lined the streets around Tavistock Square to march to Parliament, protesting against cuts to the NHS. After dragging myself up 175 steps at Russell Square Underground Station, I followed a crowd on their way ...
A breast cancer sufferer who had a life-saving mastectomy left with differently shaped boobs - after the NHS refused to lift her other one to match. Mum-of-two Gina Truman, 53, has bravely shared photos of her "monstrous" body after learning that funding for the follow-up procedure was cut in her ...
A leaked document obtained by the BBC has revealed that there were record numbers of patients waiting over for hours for treatment in A & E in England during January. This would be the worst performing month for 13 years for the NHS and adds to the on-going problems in ...
Another day, another NHS crisis, this new problem has been uncovered by the BBC. The amount of people who are “long waiters,” those who have exceeded an 18-week target, has increased hugely. There are now 350,000 people in this dire situation, which is a huge rise of 163% in just four ...
An SOS service for the elderly which turns any mobile phone into a personal alarm promises to save families and the NHS millions of pounds a year. My SOS Family allows pensioners to alert relatives by touching a single button on a mobile phone if they suffer a fall or health ...
The pressures on NHS have been highlighted again in a new study. The research found that forty per cent of doctors have admitted to falling asleep while driving their vehicles home after a night shift. This has even led to some NHS staff cashing into other cars with fatal consequences. ...
Independent living provider Welbeing has stepped in to help people home from hospital as the NHS struggles to keep up with winter demand. Welbeing provides well-known red pendants for elderly and vulnerable people which are monitored round-the-clock and automatically raise an alarm if help is required, for example in the ...
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf better know as “Comical Ali” has told the British Government he can’t take the job as NHS spin doctor, as even he couldn’t try and convince the public the NHS hasn’t gone to shit. He said: “Even when there were US tanks behind me as I told ...
The overall cost of Britain's break from Europe is expected to be an astronomical £220 billion over four years, dwarfing the NHS budget which was a focal part of the 'Leave' campaign. New forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show that government debt is to hit £1.945 trillion in five years, with ...