Health

HEALTH WORKERS across the UK have thanked people for the “Clap for the NHS” show of appreciation last night, 26th March. And now the medics’ campaign Medact has issued a list of actions which the public can do to help ...

FOUR residents of Tower Hamlets have been diagnosed as having the Corona virus, also known as Covid-19. At the start of the week, only one case had been reported: the 300% increase was revealed today, Tuesday, 10th March. One infected ...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED! Will you help the medics at Medact pressure the Government to tackle inequality and the resulting ill health, most prevalent among the poor? There’s been a string of news in recent weeks showing that inequality is growing ...

HOSPITAL PATIENTS in Waltham Forest have long felt the poor relation in the Barts NHS Trust family – with a hospital that is well overdue for refurbishment. Now a Whipps Cross Hospital is to be delivered. Boris Johnson promised, before ...

IT’S DOWN TO US to look after the NHS – after the 2019 General Election result put our prize service at risk. That’s the view of local NHS campaigners. During the election campaign there was a debate about whether Boris ...

THE HIGH COURT has ruled that the parents of five year old Tafida Raqeeb can take their daughter to Italy to receive further medical treatment. The ruling came after medics at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, had informed the parents ...

ONCE AGAIN, Tower Hamlets veteran politician Helal Abbas Uddin has seen the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) take a decision which affects his political future. But this time, rather than being in his favour, the NEC has dashed his ...

THE UK HAS lost its “virus free” status on measles, after 231 cases were recorded in the first three months of 2019. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has noticed and promised to take steps to protect the population from this serious ...

“IT’S TOO LITTLE, too late” claim East London health campaigners in response to Boris Johnson’s cash handout to the NHS. With the Labour Party revealing doubts that the funding includes any new money, health activists say that in any event, ...

LONDON’S AIR AMBULANCE came in to land at West Ham’s Rush Green training ground earlier this week – to celebrate the Ambulance’s 30th anniversary. The Air Ambulance began its work in 1989. It operates from 8am to sunset every day ...