Health

FROM TODAY – Friday, 6th April – there will be an extra tax on soft drinks which contain high levels of added sucrose (sugar). The tax has been put in place to reduce childhood obesity – but will it work? The ...

AS LOCAL health campaigners prepared to demonstrate in Chrisp Street Market on Thursday lunchtime, they have issued a new warning about why “on-line GPs” are bad news for patients. “There’s no place in East London for GP at hand,” they ...

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LOCAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNERS are planning a demonstration against the unwelcome arrival of “GP at Hand” – an “online GP” service which has rented rooms in a surgery where the NHS has just shut down a conventional GP service. The health ...

A NEW REPORT from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revealed that 40% of “online GP” companies are not providing safe care to their patients. The CQC established that there are 35 companies currently running online GP services in England. ...

NEW RESOURCES to help parents work out what to do if their child is ill have been launched in Tower Hamlets. Is this a way to reassure worried parents or part of a larger move to restrict access to NHS ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has launched its new Suicide Prevention Strategy 2018-21. The Strategy was launched on 1st February – national Time To Talk day, when people are encouraged to talk about mental health. The suicide rate in Tower Hamlets is ...

TOWER HAMLETS Labour Party members were out on the streets of central London today – with thousands of others, marching to show their support for the NHS. They were protesting on the day the Tories came up with another cover ...

NHS ENGLAND has embarked on a bizarre consultation document with the grand title of Conditions for which over the counter items should not routinely be prescribed in primary care: A consultation on guidance for CCGs. Translated into real English, this ...

JONATHAN DIMBLEBY is usually connected with serious political programmes on TV or the radio – but once a year he gets into his tracksuit and walks to raise money for a cancer charity set up in 1966 in memory of ...