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NHS watchdog rejects use of ketamine-like nasal spray as antidepressant despite hype over treatment Officials say there is not enough evidence esketamine nasal spray works long-term NICE also said the £10,000 course price is too high for the NHS to fund The drug delivered via nasal spray is chemically similar to the party-drug version By … Read more
Britons book more GP appointments when it is cold and rainy – but they make fewer visits when it is sunny or snowing, research shows. Scientists also found patients booked fewer appointments on days last summer that the England football team played in the World Cup. Spikes in attendances also occur after public holidays and … Read more
Call in the ploggers! That’s the name for these joggers who pick up litter while they run in a group led by and NHS worker, 50, who has lived with a ‘zero waste’ policy for the past decade The ploggers are a ground of friends who rid the streets of litter as they jog Group … Read more
Dominic Cummings suggested the NHS should cover the cost of selecting babies to have higher IQs, it emerged last night. Boris Johnson’s aide said rich would-be parents would inevitably select embryos with the ‘highest prediction for IQ’. In a 2014 blog post on ‘designer babies’, he also floated the idea that a ‘national health system … Read more
Little Olivia Coy loves drawing pictures of her family. There’s Mummy, sister Isobel and her grandparents, all with their stick arms and triangular bodies. There isn’t a daddy in the picture. Even though she understands what one is, Olivia knows some families, like hers, don’t have one. She knows that ‘a nice man had helped … Read more
A facemask being tested by the NHS can diagnose tuberculosis early. The gadget, designed with the help of British scientists, can detect disease bacteria expelled by a suspected patient’s mouth after they wear it for just half an hour. Researchers say the ‘world-changing’ technology could save millions of lives a year by giving a rapid … Read more
A Harley Street consultant has slammed the NHS for serving his father ‘ultra-processed junk’ food after a major operation on his sinuses. Dr Aseem Malhotra, a consultant cardiologist at ROC Private Clinic in Marylebone, London, raged about a local hospital which provided his father Dr Kailash Chand with a ‘disgraceful’ egg mayonnaise sandwich after surgery … Read more
A facemask being tested by the NHS can diagnose tuberculosis early. The gadget, designed with the help of British scientists, can detect disease bacteria expelled by a suspected patient’s mouth after they wear it for just half an hour. Researchers say the ‘world-changing’ technology could save millions of lives a year by giving a rapid … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock says ministers will not tolerate physical or verbal assaults on NHS staff as data shows 28% have been abused A survey of 569,000 employees found many are experiencing abuse from public 15% have experienced physical assault, rising to 34% among ambulance staff Black and minority ethnic workers are 14% more likely … Read more
Transgender patients say they feel ‘forced’ to transition using hormones bought from the dark web because NHS waiting times are so long. Some patients spend as long as three years on a waiting list before they finally see a specialist at a gender identity clinic, a BBC investigation has found. And, desperate to start transitioning to … Read more