LOCAL GP and Chair of the Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee (LMC) Dr Jackie Applebee has written a letter to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, protesting against government cuts in funding of Tower Hamlets NHS. She is now ...

CAMPAIGNERS are calling on the Tower Hamlets public to come along to the Barts NHS Trust AGM next Wednesday and support the people who clean our local hospitals. Cleaning hospitals is not just a case of prettying up the surroundings. ...

THIS COULD BE the best day you ever spend at the dentist. It’s hard to keep track of which hospital is which, these days – but Barts Health has just announced that its annual Health Open Day will take place ...

THE LAST weekend in August is always a bank holiday – but it still catches many of us out when it comes to healthcare. Regular NHS users need to plan – and the rest of us need to be aware ...

THE EVE OF the much anticipated Greater Sylhet Cup at Mabley Green in Hackney we took to our soup kitchen with homeless friends at Stratford City.  People who see them Think the homeless have no shame What they don’t realise ...

TWO LABOUR Shadow Ministers issued a joint statement on 12th August to mark International Youth Day. Cat Smith, Shadow Minister for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs, and Kate Osamor, Shadow International Development Secretary, spoke up for the rights of young people – ...

DONALD TRUMP has been spending large parts of August getting mixed up about whether he is playing a macho video game or trying to run a country which is involved in most of the inter-state conflict in the world. It ...

OVER A QUARTER of a century ago, the then Labour MP for Bow & Poplar, Mildred Gordon, tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons. It called for those who cared for elderly, young or disabled relatives to ...

A VACCINATION against the human papilloma virus (HPV) is currently offered to all girls aged between 12 and 13 as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme. Now the Government has refused to extend the offer to boys. Girls were ...

THE GOVERNMENT has just released a new Tobacco Control Plan – an updated strategy for reducing the number of smokers in the UK. The Plan has been welcomed by the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) – but with ...