Arthritis costs the UK healthcare system over £10billion a year! And it is estimated that £118.6billion will be spent on the condition over the course of the next decade. The two most common forms, osteoarthritis …
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Arthritis costs the UK healthcare system over £10billion a year! And it is estimated that £118.6billion will be spent on the condition over the course of the next decade. The two most common forms, osteoarthritis …
Continue readingThe NHS has set up a scheme to help whistleblowers back into employment. But it has been criticised, prior to launch, as nothing more than a ‘PR vehicle’. The nationwide pilot scheme, with a £100,000 …
Continue readingPeople with long term gum disease are more likely to develop dementia, researchers have found. Scientists believe that inflammation caused by years of mouth problems could eventually damage the brain. Although the study of 20,000 …
Continue readingMany private hospitals are gaining from getting tax breaks whilst NHS units don’t. More than a quarter of the 457 private hospitals receive rate relief of 80 per cent because they are registered as charities. …
Continue readingA safe bed has at last been found for a suicidal teenager whose case prompted a High Court judge to condemn care provision as a disgrace. In his ruling, Sir James Munby, the most senior …
Continue readingThe number of prescriptions for diabetes has risen by more than three quarters in a decade and now costs the NHS almost £1 billion per year. Amazing as it may seem 52 million prescriptions were …
Continue readingSounds great but could this law actually be toothless? For a start it only applies to vehicles that are designated as wheelchair accessible and will apply to both taxis and private hire vehicles. It’s a …
Continue readingScientists are developing a ‘ninja’ drug that targets toxic proteins in the brain that could stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks. Early tests have been hopeful and show that the drug halts the chemical process that kills …
Continue readingTens of thousands of disabled Scots face controversial benefits assessments, according to figures highlighted by Scottish Labour. Around 130,000 working age people in Scotland were receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) at the end of last …
Continue readingThe Government says yes but many others say no. With one source saying that ‘mental health is as much a priority in Westminster as reducing the happy hour in the Commons bar’! Pre-election Theresa May was so …
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