News Round-Up
28 April 2024
by Will Jones
Should We Rename the Daily Sceptic the Daily Septic?
28 April 2024
More than 13,300 NHS hospital beds – one in seven – were filled with patients fit for discharge but unable to leave each day last month, triple the pre-pandemic figure, as excess non-Covid deaths continue to climb.
Children who believe they are transgender are probably just going through a short-lived phase and 'social transitioning' should be discouraged, the NHS has told doctors.
With prescriptions of antibiotics, painkillers, sedatives and opioids rising considerably during the Covid lockdowns, is overuse of medicine making us unwell, asks Dr Mark Shaw.
Almost 40,000 cancers went undiagnosed during the first year of Covid, according to official statistics which lay bare the catastrophic impact of the lockdowns, as experts fear this is just "the tip of the iceberg".
The NHS waiting list for routine operations has topped 7 million for the first time, leaving 1 in 8 people in England waiting for treatment. The number out of work due to long-term sickness is at a record high of 2.5m.
Why is the NHS in crisis and why have there been thousands of excess deaths since the spring? An Emergency Department doctor says what he sees on the frontline, including a spike in heart attacks since the vaccinations.
Denmark has ceased Covid vaccination for most under-50s, but the UK has not, meaning it is offering vaccines to 32m additional, low-risk people at a potential cost of £1bn. This is an utter waste of scarce public funds.
The NHS is in a perpetual winter crisis, something that more than doubling the budget in the 2000s did nothing to change. With beds already 95% occupied, will Therese Coffey's plan to get us through the winter work?
If subjecting people to lectures that tell them their race is "a problem of our time" and mistreating them when they complain is not unlawful discrimination then anti-discrimination law is not fit for purpose.
Figures from the Southern Hemisphere, which usually foretell what will happen in the U.K., indicate a large flu surge two months earlier than normal, mostly driven by under-30s.
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