Health

The Government is trying to impose a new contract on junior hospital doctors which will do away with the current system of paying doctors extra to work in the evenings, overnight and on Saturdays. The Government says this will help ...

The east London area is one of 27 areas across the country to be chosen to be part of the first stage of the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme. That means that money will be spent now on helping ...

As junior doctors begin their fourth episode of industrial action, all the signs are that both their resolve and public support remain solid. The latest recruit to the doctors’ cause is the Patients Association, which has now indicated its formal ...

What better way to let off steam the weekend after May’s election than to go for a run – and what better way to go for a run than to join thousands of other people doing the same thing? Fortunately ...

As the junior hospital doctors started their second day of strike action, new figures were released which showed that the Government’s strategy of starving the NHS of money are having an effect on patient treatment. The NHS has a target ...

At 8am today, junior hospital doctors began a 48-hour strike – wondering whether it would be third time lucky as they attempt to defeat government attempts to change their contracts. Doctors had already staged two one-day strikes, after negotiations between ...

Taysir Mahmud St John Ambulance has recognised ordinary people who have done extraordinary things in the City of London and Tower Hamlets. Twenty-six volunteers were recognised at an award giving ceremony held on 23rd February in Barber Surgeons’ Hall in ...

Mayor’s TB Ambassador visits The Whitechapel Mission Emdad Rahman British actress Emma Thompson visited the Whitechapel Mission and called on Londoners to get tested for TB as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the disease, which is more prevalent ...

If you are one of the thousands who have made New Year’s Resolutions about your health – but you don’t want to be one of the thousands who have broken them by the end of January – here’s some information ...

First, the bad news: East London residents have a very high incidence of heart disease. Now, the somewhat better news: these same residents have access to some of the very best cardiac care in the world. And that better news ...