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Emergency Dept Heads Want Solution for A&E wards Crisis

Emergency Dept Heads Want Solution for A&E wards CrisisLeaders of 20 emergency departments have sent a letter to senior NHS managers warning about lives at risk in A&E departments. The leaders fear "toxic overcrowding" and "institutional exhaustion" will not assure safe care to patients.

BMA Criticizes Coalition Policies for Children’s Failing on a Grand Scale

BMA Criticizes Coalition Policies for Children’s Failing on a Grand Scale According to a scathing report by the British Medical Association, a series of coalition policies threaten to have severe deleterious effects on children, spreading inequalities and driving more families to poverty.

IVF Banned for Obese Women and Smokers

IVF Banned for Obese Women and SmokersIn an effort to lower down waiting lists, the NHS in Scotland will be providing only two cycles of IVF to couples who are struggling hard to conceive. The NHS has also banned the obese women from receiving the fertility treatment.

The new policy all around Scotland targets to figure out different conditions for IVF patients across individual health boards. They will be effective from July 1.

People Complain about New Helpline 111

People Complain about New Helpline 111A group of doctors has raised warnings lately that the 111 advice line of the National Health Service has proved to be a "problematic"  roll-out.

It is being said that the same has caused patients to be unaware of where to go and take help for their medical issue. Patients, according to the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), have lost confidence that the new non-emergency advice line was helpful for them.

Ex-Fattest Man on Globe Poses Nude

Ex-Fattest Man on Globe Poses NudePaul Manson, world's fastest man once, posed in nude to enable the NHS chiefs to sanction an operation for him that will cost £60,000.

He had incredibly lost 46st in three years, however, because of excessive weight lost he has got much of the sagging skin. The doctors refused to remove that skin.

Agency Staff Expenditure at Hereford and Worcester agency Crosses £12.5m

Agency Staff Expenditure at Hereford and Worcester agency Crosses £12.5mSources reported that the bills for the agency staff have hiked up by £4m in between 2011 and 2012. It suggested that an amount exceeding £12.5m was spent on paying the agency doctors and nurses in the Hereford and Worcester in 2012.

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