A small number of measles cases have been identified in primary and secondary schools in Tower Hamlets. These cases have occurred in individuals who have not been vaccinated against measles. Public Health England has been working with Tower Hamlets Council ...

#DoSomethingNew!  Life doesn’t end when dementia begins – as public health staff from Tower Hamlets Council will try to show you during the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Awareness Week, which runs from 17th to 23rd May. Doing something new could be ...

Are we on the brink of another Labour upset? Three weeks ago it seemed self-evident that the borough’s sitting Labour MPs would walk through to victory at the General Election. That was before the election court verdict in the case ...

Emdad Rahman Thousands of people are potentially being sent home without proper support when they leave hospital or a care home. Some of them are left isolated and end up in a predicament that could have been averted. An enquiry ...

Now Cllr Danny Hassell is asking for motion 12.10 to be taken next.  This is agreed. More: question 6.10, from a member of the public, is being taken too, as it informs the motion. Ms Emma Price is asking her ...

It was a strange Cabinet meeting on Wednesday (8th April) as politicians ploughed on with getting the necessary jobs done while waiting for the verdict of the election court – and, for that matter, the verdict of the electorate at ...

Local people are being urged to look after their sexual health as experts take to roads across Tower Hamlets to provide advice aboard the new Barts Health bus. The innovative service launched on Wednesday this week at Mile End Hospital, ...

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 ...