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Blue badge permit 'shocking disparity' revealed © Getty Images People with non-visible disabilities such as autism or Parkinson's disease face a "shocking disparity" when applying for a blue badge parking permit, a BBC investigation has found. Scores of councils have lower approval rates for non-visible disabilities applications compared to those for physical impairments. Non-visible disability applications began in England in August 2019. The Department for Transport (DfT) said it would review their impact. Applications for people with cognitive impairments were already considered in Scot...

THE coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on a vast variety of services across the country. One vital service which has been badly affected is diagnostic scanning at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. With NHS staff being stretched under pressure caused by height of the pandemic, scan appointments had to be cancelled and pushed back. This in turn caused waiting lists to swell and saw waiting times extended by months. According to NHS England statistics, a total of 6,132 people were on the trust’s waiting list for potentially lifesaving CT, M...

THE coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on a vast variety of services across the country. One vital service which has been badly affected is diagnostic scanning at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. With NHS staff being stretched under pressure caused by height of the pandemic, scan appointments had to be cancelled and pushed back. This in turn caused waiting lists to swell and saw waiting times extended by months. According to NHS England statistics, a total of 6,132 people were on the trust’s waiting list for potentially lifesaving CT, M...

Office for National Statistics figures show there are an estimated 34,841 households with children in Northumberland. If every one of those left him a standard 50ml glass of sherry, old Kris Kringle will make his way through an average of 29,345 units of alcohol as he travels around the nation’s homes. Santa's sherry drinking in statistics, showing how much booze he will consume as he makes his deliveries to children across England alone. That’s based on the average 17% strength of more than 30 different kinds of sherry being sold in the big four supermarkets of Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s...

Thousands of people in Essex missed out on potentially life-saving scans when non-Covid NHS services ground to a halt during the pandemic. Analysis of official figures by the BBC Shared Data Unit has found that at least 136,970 fewer diagnostic imaging scans were carried out across the area between April and September this year, compared to the same period in 2019. However, as figures are only available for two of the five NHS trusts in Essex and exclude private hospitals, the true number of people missing out on scans is likely far higher. Across NHS trusts in the area that had data ...