Health

LABOUR HAS promised to spend an extra £37 billion on the NHS if it forms a government on 9th June. The Tories have promised no extra funding and are relying on their record: oh dear. Labour says that £10 billion ...

HELP IS AT hand for Tower Hamlets residents who want to stop smoking over Ramadan. The Council began its intensive campaign at the end of last month, hoping to help tobacco users wean themselves off the habit before the holy ...

NHS ENGLAND Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced that the NHS will allow the waiting time for some treatments to increase – in order to liberate vital funds for cancer treatment and Accident and Emergency (A&E) services. This is not ...

THE NHS is still in crisis and Theresa May is still in denial. NHS professionals have been speaking out with one voice, clamouring for extra money, and opposition parties have piled on the pressure in the House of Commons in ...

ARE YOU LOOKING after your amygdala? No, we didn’t know we had one either. The amygdala is a small group of cells deep inside the medial temporal lobe (roughly, on the side of your head above the ear). The cells ...

THERESA MAY and Jeremy Hunt are still in denial about the serious problems in the NHS, as ever more professional bodies call for urgent action. The Royal College of Nursing has called the state of the NHS “the worst” that ...

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has announced a policy decision to give more priority to treating mental illness. As her announcement contained virtually no extra funding, it constitutes little more than wishful thinking. May made her announcement at an event held ...

THE RED CROSS has had to step in to bail out the NHS from collapsing under the weight of government neglect. While Health Minister Jeremy Hunt keeps up the pretence that the new junior hospital doctors’ contract is going to deliver ...

As the UK’s top GP warned that GP services are the latest part of the NHS to reach crisis point, concerns are growing that the Conservative Government is losing its grip on this flagship public service. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt ...

The NHS is probably the best loved public institution in Tower Hamlets – but campaigners have stressed that it is once again under threat from government cuts and their attempts to use it to channel money into the private sector. ...