Tag: NHS

Today's Autumn Statement of tax hikes, giving the UK the highest tax burden in 70 years, is a direct consequence of the disastrous decisions taken during the pandemic to borrow and spend so much on lockdowns.

Standards of numeracy in nursing have been falling years, say registered nurses Roger Watson and Niall McCrae. Is that why most nurses have uncritically parroted the Government's dubious pandemic claims?

The Scottish Government has misrepresented its own mask guidance in a 'fact check' by falsely denying it now recognises masks are harmful, when the guidance clearly states it is balancing mask harms against Covid harms.

The Scottish Government has finally accepted that mask-wearing is harmful following a campaign that led to the end of the mask recommendation in care homes.

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.