The Barts NHS Trust has revealed that it has amassed a stonking deficit – and local pro-NHS campaigners are blaming the costly PFI deal which financed the new Royal London Hospital. The Trust seems to be resorting to desperate measures ...

Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) is a campaigning group, working to preserve a public NHS run for people not profit, patients not shareholders. And it’s going to be very busy on Saturday, 28th February, which is a national Day of ...

It’s Tower Hamlets first, as the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board is the first such Board to support the “Halve It” coalition. The move has been warmly welcomed by health campaigners and lesbian and gay activists alike as a move ...

Emdad Rahman Tucked in behind Chrisp Street Market is the Lansbury Boxing Club. Like the best ones, it’s old fashioned. I’m here to meet Ben “the Entertainer” Day, unbeaten Light Welterweight and owner of the Ringtone Gym in Euston. We ...

The Barts Health NHS Trust has been trying out a new way of getting feedback on its services from its patients and their friends and relatives. They’ve been holding Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) – an annual, mandatory ...

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has been looking at who is coming to them to complain about poor service – and, alarmingly, it has found that South Asian and Muslim women are less likely to complain about their NHS ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been working with partners in the health service and the community to help people join the national “Stopober” initiative and stop smoking. Smoking accounts for over 100,000 deaths in the UK each year and it is ...

Volunteers at the Barts Health Macmillan cancer information and support centre at Whipps Cross Hospital are the stars of a new video on cancer support website be.Macmillan. The centre – which provides a support service for patients affected by cancer, ...

Rushanara Ali MP (Bethnal Green & Bow) spoke at the Save Our Surgeries demonstration, but seems to have put the head of Labour Group Leader Cllr Rachael Saunders on her shoulder for the occasion. Perhaps they are performing their impression of Zaphod ...

Last Thursday, 3,000 people went to the polls in Blackwall & Cubitt Town (BCT), to vote in a by-election. On Saturday, some 600 people marched through Tower Hamlets to protest against government funding cuts to GP surgeries. It’s a contemporary ...