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In an opposition day motion on the NHS crisis, the shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth praised the hard work of NHS staff in the House of Commons and pressed the Health Secretary on “a winter crisis even worse than last year." MPs from around the country told horrifying tales of cancelled operations, hospital closures, staff shortages and failures for patient outcomes. Jonathan Ashworth told how In a hospital ward in Pinderfields Hospital, west Yorkshire, patients were left lying on the...

By Joey Tyson It’s just finished lashing it down and a fantastic pink sunset is beginning to seep across the sky above Hampstead Heath. As I traipse soggily through the park, a series of bizarre blips and beeps suddenly erupts into the damp air. Forgetting about my wet feet for moment, I focus on the strange sound. The tempo gathers pace, and the beeps start to get faster and louder. The noise swirls into a curiously rhythmic beat, building into a...

Nearing the end of your lease? It could be worth contacting a cleaning service earlier than you planned to. Across the UK, around 29% of tenants lose part or all of their deposits every year, with average losses of £825 per renter. Collectively, lose deposits amount to over £1 billion per year -- a very large sum, even in the context of the property rental market. The figures are even worse for students and young renters, with four in 10...

In today’s reshuffle, despite an unprecedented winter NHS crisis, Jeremy Hunt has not only retained his role as Health Secretary, but also been given control of social care. - Another area in crisis under successive Conservative cuts. A Government policy paper on social care is due to be published next summer. This means it is likely that Jeremy Hunt will now take charge of that, which worries many as he has been in charge of the increasing privatisation of the...

Hair loss is a genetic condition that affects millions of people around the world. About two thirds of all men will begin to suffer some sort of hair loss by the age of 35, and a quarter of men will begin to see hair loss before they reach the ripe old age of 21. Hair loss, while typically considered as male issue, also affects women, as 40% of people who suffer from hair loss symptoms are female. While hair loss,...

Brexit is definitely a gamble. You wonder whether Theresa May is playing on slots like Casingdom  sometimes! More than half of the UK electorate voted to leave the Union and in 2017, Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union was invoked. The UK has current plans to withdraw from the Union and the final withdrawal is slated to take place on March 29, 2019. After leaving the European Union, PM Teresa May has stated that the UK has...

A scene from Channel 4’s 'SAS Who Dares Wins', which aired last night, showed us exactly how not to react when someone is having a panic attack. SAS Who Dares Wins, for anyone unfamiliar, is a reality show that sees normal men from across the UK take on SAS-style training led by former SAS servicemen. Recruits endure physical and mental challenges that push them to their limits. The scene that troubled me, followed a task where recruits had clambered across...

An investigation has been launched after a man died in a waiting room for Accident and Emergency in a hospital in Dudley in the Midlands. The person died in Russells Hall Hospital's emergency waiting room in November, the NHS trust confirmed today. BBC Midlands reported that  the man was a suspected cardiac patient with chest pains. News of the investigation into the death of the patient waiting to be treated comes as new figures revealed that last week a third of...

Fertility treatment could soon become more effective after scientists developed an 'assault course'... for sperm. It uses an obstacle course to separate the 'men from the boys' - identifying the strongest and fastest swimmers. Appropriately dubbed SPARTAN, after one of the most feared military forces in Ancient Greece, it uses obstacles to select the fastest and healthiest sperm. Already available for use in the clinic, it is hoped it will be helping women to become pregnant with fewer cycles of...