Health

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. ...

Mo Haque Channel S (Sky 814) and the Beani Bazar Cancer & General Hospital have teamed up to help me, Mo Haque, by organising a live TV appeal on 9th November, from 6pm to 1am. This a last push to ...

The annual report of the General Medical Council (GMC) has warned that there is “a state of unease within the medical profession across the UK that risks affecting patients as well as doctors.” The GMC added that the dispute between ...

East London MP Diane Abbott MP led the condemnations of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy, published today, dismissing it as a missed opportunity. The Strategy is one of the first pieces of Government domestic policy published by new Prime Minister ...