NHS

Burnham makes bold move Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called for urgent social care reform, using a major speech to invite the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats into cross-party talks aimed at fixing a system he says can no longer be treated as a political football. Speaking at a care home in Enfield, north London, Burnham […]

1 week ago

Free morning-after pill service used by hundreds of thousands Almost 305,000 free doses of the morning-after pill were handed out at high street pharmacies in England in just six months, new NHS figures reveal. The scheme, which launched in October, lets women get emergency contraception without booking a GP or sexual health clinic appointment, BBC […]

1 week ago

Sounds simple enough! The NHS is set to reward people for walking 30 minutes a day. As per the BBC, NHS England is set launch a scheme which will be called “marathon a month” and will ask people to walk for around half-an-hour daily. For those who do it everyday, they should hit roughly 26 […]

1 month ago

The WHO has declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It’s been understood that NHS staff are having to prepare for a potential influx of UK Ebola after it was announced there had been an outbreak in central Africa. According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), caution is now advised regarding […]

2 months ago

The mum opened up about her condition A mum claims the NHS have refused her breast reduction five times – despite her 32HH boobs being so big that she can’t fit into soft play with her son. Charlotte Innes suffers from back pain so severe that she is unable to sleep, workout, or play with […]

3 months ago

It says a lot about your health It is most likely that standing on one leg isn’t what you do every day, unless you practice yoga or something similar. However, the quick activity, which doesn’t need to last longer than a minute, can say a lot about your physical health, it has been revealed. According […]

4 months ago