Health

THE NUMBER OF people in England who were referred to the NHS wheelchair service in 2024 is roughly the same as the number of people who live in Northampton. What is the NHS wheelchair service? If you need a mobility ...

WORKERS in the Rapid Response Team at Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust are going on strike from Monday, 24th February over concerns about how the staff are treated. Unite the Union claim that management’s responses do not meet ...

ALL NHS worker were “heroes” during the Covid pandemic – and we stood on our doorsteps and clapped to prove it. Among the heroic teams were the staff who dealt with infection control. These workers dive in to parts of ...

ONE YEAR AGO police in East London recevied a report from a member of the public who said that they had found a new-born baby, wrapped in a towel, in a shopping bag near the junction of Grenway and High ...

WES STREETING MP, Secretary of State for Health, has announced that the NHS is “broken” – and he has a Baldrick-style “Cunning Plan” to mend it. What Streeting hasn’t confessed is that it wasn’t the Tories who broke the NHS ...

HARLOW IS miles away from East London, but apparently the Harlow & District Sports Trust runs a place called the Harlow Leisurezone – and they have found time to comment on some recent research. Someone has looked into how often ...

TWO companies have recalled their cheese products this week after discovering that they pose a danger to the health of anyone who might consume them. The first set of dodgy products is a range of cheeses from Dnnes Stores. There ...

A NEW and serious reminder to people who have a peanut allergy comes from the Food Standards Agency (FSA): keep avoiding food which list mustard as an ingredient. It was way back on 20th September when the FSA first warned ...

JUST WHEN you think you’ve got a new hospital well on track, along comes a new Government which shunts it into the sidings. It doesn’t matter how much consultation you’ve had or why you need it: the Minister wants to ...

By Carol Saunders for Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public TOWER HAMLETS Keep Our NHS, together with GPs from the borough’s Local Medical Committee, jointly hosted a really successful public meeting at the Bernie Cameron Community Centre in Bow on ...