Private brokers earn millions finding care homes for NHS patients
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePrivate brokers are making millions of pounds a year finding care home beds for NHS patients who are fit to leave hospital. Read…
Poverty in UK could increase death rates during or after pregnancy, warns WHO
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe cost of living crisis could exacerbate Britain’s already woeful rates of women dying during and after pregnancy, the World Health Organization has…
Did you know it's illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm in Switzerland? Or ride a cow while drunk in Scotland? 21 of the world's most bizarre laws
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou might not think that flushing the toilet after 10pm in Switzerland, giving alcohol to a moose in Alaska or swearing in the United Arab…
Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOrlaith Quinn was an outgoing, vivacious mother of two until halfway through her third pregnancy, when she became uncharacteristically withdrawn. Read More
To die the way she did, it wasn't humane': Family's fury as woman dies after being forced to wait in an ambulance outside A&E department for 15 hours
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe family of a woman who ‘bled to death’ after being forced to wait 15 hours in an ambulance outside an A&E…
How you're being ripped off by cold and flu medicines... but there's one way to stop yourself paying DOUBLE the price to beat the sniffles
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith Britain currently battling the ‘Kraken’, a ‘flu-nami’ and an explosion of other bugs, remedies that promise to banish the sniffles are…
Now Tesco locks up bacon and sausages: Meat is padlocked in fridges 'to protect stock' as hard-up Brits struggle through cost of living crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Tesco store locked its bacon, sausages and ribs in a fridge to prevent theft amid a surge of shoplifting prompted by the cost of…
Africa: How Africa's Digital Health Services Are Benefiting Patients
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith rising internet connectivity, African governments are turning to digital health services to handle a shortage of health workers — and to…
How a young woman's dream holiday to Thailand turned into a health nightmare that stumped doctors for seven years
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA dream family holiday to Thailand has turned into an ongoing nightmare for a young woman who has spent the last seven years…
Paramedic warns why you should never put frozen peas on a child's injury
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile children are often enjoying the most exciting and adventurous days of their lives, bumps and bruises sustained along the way can…