
The NHS will now pay for people at risk of developing diabetes to have free “motivational coaches” to held them with their diet and encourage them to exercise. The “one-to-one health trainers” will be offered as part of the Diabetes
by Liam Deacon26 Aug 2015, 4:08 AM PST0

Foreigners have abused the NHS for years as government ministers and health bosses agreed to look the other way in the great health tourist cover-up. The vast scale of health tourism, all funded by British taxpayers, has now been revealed by whisteblowers
by Simon Kent11 Aug 2015, 7:58 AM PST0

The NHS is dishing out millions of prescriptions a year for everyday household essentials such as toothpaste, suncream and handcream. Those benefiting from the taxpayer-funded largesse include people already not required to pay for their prescriptions, such as those on
by Liam Deacon9 Apr 2015, 2:38 AM PST0

And so today we are moved to say the unsayable. We suggest that the NHS, the institution that, according to Nye Bevan, gave us ‘the moral leadership of the world’, is not working. And we go further. We suggest that
by Dominic Frisby6 Mar 2015, 3:10 AM PST0

DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile raped or sexually assaulted at least 60 patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, including seriously ill children, a report has concluded. Savile, who is now accepted to have been one of the most notorious sex
by Andre Walker26 Feb 2015, 4:26 AM PST0

A woman was left to die after an ambulance sent to treat her was called away only four minutes from her front door. Ann Walters had initially called the NHS 111 service and after describing her symptoms had been told
by A.B. Sanderson25 Feb 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

A report into whistleblowing in Britain’s socialised health service has revealed how those who speak up are sidelined and ‘crushed’. The investigation by Sir Robert Francis QC has also taken two months longer than expected because the inquiry was inundated
by A.B. Sanderson11 Feb 2015, 3:23 AM PST0