The Royal College of Nursing has ended its commercial partnership with Teva UK after pressure from Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges. Teva will no longer sponsor the forthcoming nursing event on migraine and headache services….
Homes being built today could become uninsurable because of flooding, Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc has warned. Based on current building patterns, 115,000 new homes will be built in flood zones over the next decade. The warning exposes a conflict…
Hospitals in England are struggling to obtain aspirin, co-codamol and ramipril: medicines used to relieve pain, reduce the risk of blood clots and treat high blood pressure. These aren’t obscure treatments. They’re among the drugs a health service needs to…
Three quarters of GPs say they don’t have enough time to offer preventative healthcare, according to a Royal College of GPs survey of 2,316 doctors across the UK. With surgeries facing heavy demand and appointments often limited to ten minutes,…
London’s investment bankers, lawyers and accountants have collected more than £1.2bn in fees from takeover deals this year. The value of mergers and acquisitions involving UK-listed companies has jumped 175 percent to $132.9bn (£100bn), as private equity firms and overseas…
NHS boards imposing minimum two-year waits for ADHD and autism assessments aren’t responding to falling need. They’re rationing care by making people wait. Nearly 1 million people in England are now on waiting lists for an ADHD assessment. The average…
Food banks across north of Ireland are cutting the size of emergency parcels, reducing their opening hours and warning that they could close altogether as donations fail to keep pace with demand. Enniskillen Foodbank in County Fermanagh has enough money…
The British government has warned foreign ministers that climate breakdown and collapsing ecosystems threaten food supplies, water, migration and international stability. Yet the intelligence report behind the warning remains hidden from the British public. Foreign secretary Ed Miliband presented the…
Bread deliveries across the West of England are set to be disrupted as Hovis lorry drivers prepare to strike indefinitely over pay. Around 60 Unite members at the company’s Avonmouth depot near Bristol will walk out from 24 September after…
The pressures of poverty, insecurity and psychological distress may be physically reshaping people’s hearts years before they develop any symptoms, according to a major new study. Researchers led by the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London analysed…
