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A report by a group of London academics calls on the government to nationalise many of the things average citizens will encounter on a typical day — and that radically higher taxes should be levied to pay for the change.

Visitors to the canteen of a major London hospital have been left with no choice but to eat halal food, a decision apparently taken despite the Muslim population of the local area being a small minority.

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson has insisted Brexit will not be derailed and will be a huge success — and pledged that yes, the country’s EU membership fee will be redeployed to provide extra funding for the National Health Service.

A financially struggling National Health Service (NHS) trust has turned down thousands of pounds of charitable donations because a politically correct boss objected to male fundraisers dressing up as female nurses.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard are spending their “last precious moments” with their son after ending a long and hard-fought battle to bring him to the U.S. or the Vatican for treatment.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard have withdrawn their legal bid to bring their son to the United States for treatment, slamming doctors and the courts for “time wasted”.

Protesters who want critically ill British baby Charlie Gard to receive an experimental treatment are planning a rally and prayer vigil and hospital officials say they have received death threats in the heartbreaking case.

A ruling on whether the parents of baby Charlie Gard can be taken to the United States for treatment is expected in ten days, after a newly revealed specialist from the United States has examined him.

LONDON (AP) – A British court will assess new evidence in the case of 11-month-old Charlie Gard as his mother pleaded with judges to allow the terminally ill infant to receive experimental treatment. Great Ormond Street Hospital applied for the

More that 5000 new female genital mutilation (FGM) cases were recorded in England last year, with more than 9000 women and girls attending the National Health Service (NHS) due to the gruesome practice.

Leading doctors have said they back NHS-funded womb transplants for biological males who identify as women, a procedure which experts say will be possible within 10 years.

The British Medical Association (BMA), the professional association and trade union for doctors and medical students in the UK, has voted to decriminalise abortion after the current legal limit of 24 weeks. Over 500 delegates debated the motion, presented by

Amidst a heated debate on healthcare in the United States, White House Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert has stated Britain’s National Health Service was significantly affected by last week’s ransomware cyber attack due to the centralized nature of the health system.

Using a tool likely stolen from the United States intelligence community, hackers launched a massive cyberattack across the world on Friday.

The National Health Service (NHS) has been hit by an unprecedented, large-scale cyber-attack.

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Over 500,000 confidential patient documents were mislaid and left undelivered in the latest National Health Service (NHS) fiasco.

Contents: Obamacare follows Nixon’s wage-price controls in financial ‘death spiral’; Britain’s National Health Service continues its own death spiral

Contents: Britain’s hospitals run out of beds as Red Cross declares NHS in ‘humanitarian crisis’; Violent protests in Sri Lanka over China’s takeover of Hambantota seaport

Contents: Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) forced to close emergency rooms; Syrian regime sending ‘leave or die’ text messages to Aleppo residents

Contents: UK’s National Health Service continues to slash services to survive; UK’s ‘junior doctors’ call a devastating 5-day strike against the National Health Service; Obamacare in severe death spiral, as insurers bleed billions

“We must have more black and Asian women running the NHS”, said no National Health Service patient, ever. That’s because if you’re in serious need of treatment, as I was earlier this year, you’re too busy with more important stuff.

An Israeli-developed drug cocktail that has been shown to cure 58% of terminally ill cancer patients has been approved in record time by the National Health Service of the United Kingdom.

Faced with becoming only the second British Prime Minister in a century to be defeated on his Queen’s Speech, David Cameron has avoided embarrassment by surrendering to the demands of eurosceptic Tory rebels over protecting the National Health Service (NHS) from the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.

Eurosceptic Tory rebels are threatening to vote down the Queen’s Speech unless Prime Minister David Cameron agrees to a Labour Party amendment to exempt the National Health Service (NHS) from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 25 potential Tory rebels are reportedly

Pro-National Health Service (NHS) campaign groups have rejected Prime Minister David Cameron’s assertion that Britain’s system of socialised medicine is protected from the “real and serious threat” of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The Assistant General Secretary of the the Unite

Contents: Britain’s NHS facing massive strike from ‘junior doctors’; Britain’s NHS financial crisis is being tied to the ‘Brexit’ debate; Obama administration tries to stop Obamacare death spiral

Unless Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU), the National Health Service (NHS) will face a “myriad of dangers” from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), according to a former Foreign Secretary. Lord Owen has warned that if TTIP negotiations

In the latest ‘Project Fear’ example, the Conservative Health Secretary has claimed the economic shock of leaving the European Union (EU) would leave a damaged National Health Service (NHS) lacking staff and vital investment. Polling suggests most voters believe that

British doctors have revealed how European health tourists exploit “incredibly lax” guidelines governing full access to expensive complex therapy from the National Health Service (NHS). The Government says it has cracked down on health tourists, but doctors in the NHS say recently

Contents: Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) existential crisis continues; David Cameron hopes to ‘reform’ the EU to avoid British exit (Brexit); Hungary’s PM tells Cameron: ‘Hungarians in UK aren’t parasites’

Media hysteria in the UK is normally the province of the tabloid papers and The Guardian, but now The Telegraph has got in on the act. It has taken a report ranking obesity as a major crisis and, in a

From The Independent: I want to see the election of a Labour government: I want to see an end to austerity, key services like our railways back into public ownership, and the NHS protected from privatisation. But Britain’s membership of

We heard it again from Labour MP Lucy Powell last night on Question Time.  It could have been Owen Jones, some lefty newspaper editor, Russell Brand, or anyone else looking to label any right minded politician ‘racist’. Except it’s not

The first European Union (EU) doctors disciplined in the UK for their failure to speak English properly have been revealed.  One doctor from Poland has failed speaking, listening, reading and writing tests on three separate occasions, but has nevertheless been allowed to continue

Transgender teen Riley Middlemore has frozen her eggs before undergoing gender reassignment surgery in order that she can become a ‘biological dad’ after becoming a man. Sixteen year old Riley hopes to undergo gender reassignment surgery on the National Health Service (NHS) when she is