by Chris Rogers | 4 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
Dr Martin McShane, NHS England’s National Director for People with Long-Term Conditions, has warned that the increasing number of people with long-term medical conditions such as diabetes and dementia threatens to overwhelm the NHS. Dr McShane said the challenges...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
A Freedom of Information request by the Daily Mail has revealed that four in ten A&E departments are hiring family doctors to cover night shifts and weekends, at a cost of almost £1,500 a time, in order to cope with soaring patient numbers. Daily...
by Chris Rogers | 3 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
The number of overweight and obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to around one billion since 1980, claims a report from a UK think tank. The Overseas Development Institute said one in three people worldwide was now overweight and urged...
by Chris Rogers | 3 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
A group of MPs have said that the lack of data on the effectiveness of medicines available to doctors and researchers is “of extreme concern”. The Public Accounts Committee is calling for all data on drugs being prescribed in the UK to be made available....
by Chris Rogers | 2 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
Dr Liam Fox MP has said that special protections for NHS funding must end after the next general election in 2015. Former defence secretary Liam Fox said Britain was lagging behind the rest of Europe in key areas like cancer and stroke outcome rates, and claimed the...
