Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged people to “bear with” GPs amid a major IT outage that has caused “considerable disruption” to appointment bookings and other services. Thousands of GP practices have been affected, with NHS England confirming there has been an issue with the EMIS Web system, which isContinue Reading
illustrisima/Shutterstock Throughout human history, different infectious diseases have taken the mantle of “most deadly disease” infecting humans. In the past century alone, the human population has experienced many pandemics: COVID, HIV and various influenza outbreaks – to name a few. Some have lasted for centuries and persist today, such asContinue Reading
SB Arts Media/Shutterstock We all know physical activity has many health benefits, including for mental health. It helps manage stress, ease joint or back pain, and boost energy levels. Exercise can also improve brain function and sleep, and lift mood. In contrast, inactivity or spending too much time sedentary isContinue Reading
A fifth of the nursing and midwifery professionals who left the register in the last year did so within 10 years of joining, figures show. Nursing leaders described the statistic as “deeply alarming” and called on ministers to “grasp the nettle and make nursing an attractive career”. The latest NursingContinue Reading
Mass deaths and economic pain during the Covid-19 pandemic were driven by “fatal flaws” in planning by the government, civil servants and scientists who prepared for the “wrong pandemic”, a public inquiry has found. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry, chaired by Heather Hallett, published its first report on Thursday, focusing on theContinue Reading
aaronj9/Shutterstock Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview, the former aid worker told the reporter: “My pain is under control and I’m terribly happy – it sounds weird to say, butContinue Reading
Michael Mosley is among a number of TV doctors who have been “deepfaked” on social media to promote health scams, an investigation has claimed. Mr Mosley and other doctors, including Hilary Jones and Rangan Chatterjee, are being used to promote products which claim to fix high blood pressure and diabetes,Continue Reading
Mental health training for line managers could save companies millions of pounds in lost sick days every year, research suggests. Organisations offering managers mental wellness training experienced better customer service, improved employee retention and recruitment, and reduced long-term sickness absence, according to the study published in the journal Plos One.Continue Reading
PaO_STUDIO/Shutterstock Imagine you’re 90 years old, a grandmother of three and your husband is also elderly and ailing. You need help with almost everything, getting out of a chair, going to the bathroom, getting dressed, eating and remembering your medications. Despite advances in life expectancy, ageing has not been kind,Continue Reading
Retired rugby players who have suffered multiple concussions have biological differences that may make them more prone to developing motor neurone disease (MND) and other conditions, scientists have said. Researchers discovered that players who have had five or more concussions during their careers have higher levels of certain proteins inContinue Reading
