Patients in many parts of the country have been left unable to access their GP surgery online after a tech firm went into administration. Silicon Practice ran digital services, including websites, online booking and consultations, for around 500 practices in England – just under 10% of the...
The report also looked at access to certain medicines prescribed to patients with cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease, which includes conditions such as heart disease or stroke, is a leading cause of death and affects around 800,000 people in Scotland. The study looked at prescr...
After contacting her health trust for her regular repeat prescription, she said she was told there were no supplies of Nabilone available. She was told to contact her neurologist and has since been prescribed other medication. Kenning said the alternatives had not been effective and that h...
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...