BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST has defended itself for carrying out ID checks on patients – pointing out that it is only carrying out government policy and trying to claim back money from patients who are not entitled to free treatment. ...

DISTURBING PRACTICES are going on within the NHS facilities run by Barts Health Trust, according to local campaigners in the Tower Hamlets branch of Keep Our NHS Public (KONP). Campaigners report that hospitals in the Barts Health Trust are asking ...

NORTH EAST LONDON health bosses have issued advice on how the public can obtain medical advice over the bank holiday – but the message coming out from the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is rather mixed. Much of the information is ...

Emdad Rahman Here To Stay is an exhibition by documentary photographer Inès Elsa Dalal which highlights the impact of nurses from the Windrush generation, who helped shape the NHS since its birth 70 years ago. Inès is a documentarian, who conducts ...

AMID VERY difficult economic circumstances, public sector bodies have come together across East London to help young people aged 16 to 24 who have a learning disability to find employment. The partners in the scheme – Project SEARCH – are ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment of the murder of Lamar Stewart, 21, of Mitcham. The Judge imposed a minimum term of 22 years. Stewart was at a party in Mile End last September when he was stabbed ...

THE TORY Government has a failing record on building social homes, says John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary. Healey was speaking as new statistics were released showing that the number of government funded socially rented homes being built has ...

AFTER SPENDING three years working out what was going on with its waiting list, Barts Health NHS Trust says it is now on top of its data – and that it’s giving a good service to East Londoners. The Trust ...

HERE THEY COME, Labour’s right wing – gunning for Corbyn, just as we predicted three days ago. Behind their current claims that Corbyn is soft on opposing anti-semitism is the recognition the only way the Right can regain control of ...

AS LOCAL health campaigners prepared to demonstrate in Chrisp Street Market on Thursday lunchtime, they have issued a new warning about why “on-line GPs” are bad news for patients. “There’s no place in East London for GP at hand,” they ...