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Virtual wards, 3D eye scanners and at-home antibiotic kits are among the new initiatives to be trialled as part of a multimillion-pound effort to tackle lengthy waiting lists in the NHS. Funding of £160 million has been announced by NHS England to aid the health service’s recovery after the pandemic. Figures last month revealed the number of people in England waiting to begin hospital treatment had risen to a new record. A total of 4.7 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of February – the highest figure since records began in August 2007. It comes as research from t...

Amanda Buckenham walks 62 miles to raise money for children's hospital - Credit: Amanda Buckenham  Woman from Huntingdon walks 62 miles to raise money for children’s hospital who supported her daughter.   Medal that Amanda's children had made for her. - Credit: Amanda Buckenham Amanda said: “My daughter, Katie-Anne, has epilepsy and had been under the care of Great Ormond Street Hospital and has received great help with her condition.    “I wanted to give something back to the hospital, so I decided to complete this challenge.   “I had been shielding for nearly a year and h...

'Memories of Moscow' Brings the Late Soviet Era to Life Author Harald Lipman was the British Embassy doctor in the 1980s. April 4, 2021 In 1983 Dr. Harald Lipman came to Moscow as the resident physician for the British Embassy. Yuri Andropov was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. and relations between the Soviet Union and the Western countries were particularly tense. After completing his first residency, Lipman returned in 1987 for another ‘tour of duty,’ this time to a country being led by Mikhail Gorbachev into the era of glasnost and chan...

Paul Farrell, 55, has today pleaded guilty to sexually abusing eight children at the hospital in London, between 1985 and 2020. This amounted to at least 500 instances of abuse.

A FAMILY is gearing up to visit the tattoo parlour once lockdown ends in a bid to raise funds and awareness of a rare genetic condition. Little Arizona Rumball was born in February 2020 with the incredibly rare condition, Congenital Melanocytic Naevus, a type of birthmark that may appear in newborn babies. But unlike the birthmarks we may be familiar with, the gene mutation causes large birth marks covering up to 80 percent of the body. It can also cause tumour growths in the brain and spine that can sometimes prove to be fatal. Arizona, who has a large birthmark on her back, has more...