Meanwhile, the National Housing Federation is working with housing associations to identify at least 2,000 potential homes and bed spaces, including empty properties that could be brought back into use. However, questions remain about whether the scale of accommodation currently identified...
Shares in the drugmakers MSD (known as Merck in the US) and Moderna have surged since both companies first hinted at the success of the vaccine in the summer. But investors sold off stock on Thursday after financial analysts said the results were not quite as strong as those seen in an ear...
Rebecca Bryson owns three businesses, which helps to cover the cost of her ADHD, external treatment and follow up care. Her husband, Colum Coyle, also has ADHD, and both pay for regular private psychiatric reviews, prescriptions and medication. Their combined costs of staying on treatment ...
Hollie Sharman shares her experience of health anxiety and a doctor advises on how to manage symptoms. Source link...
In the days before her death, six-year-old Flora Gentleman was in pain and visibly distressed. But because she was autistic and non-verbal, she could not tell her parents what was wrong. After four years of living with neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer, Flora had stopped respondi...
A woman was told she had cancer by a hospital employee who accessed her record days before she was due to receive test results from her consultant. Pippa Boardman, from Lostwithiel in Cornwall, said she had lost her dignity and privacy through the data breach at the Royal Cornwall Hospital...
The ORiW proposal would see 12,800 people connected to the sewage network for the first time with up to 86 miles (138km) of new sewage infrastructure and a single wastewater treatment works built to serve them at the end of a 4m-wide sewage tunnel. Two slightly different plans are being pu...
Vampire facials involve drawing a patient’s blood and then separating out platelet-rich plasma from it using a centrifuge. The plasma is then injected back into the face through tiny needle punctures Dermal micro-coring involves removing tiny sections of skin using thin hollow needle...
At the start of the pandemic, the then-health secretary in England, Matt Hancock, said the UK government had placed “a protective ring” around care homes. But the inquiry says this was not the case, listing a catalogue of failings. It says the care sector appeared to be “...
On Tuesday, Finance Minister John O’Dowd laid out his position in the assembly. “Pressures across departments in the current financial year are around £1.6bn. The offer that is currently on the table is around £525m. “Public sector pay alone is £500m or thereabouts, and a...