Tag: NHS

Percentage of NHS’s China-Imported Health Supply Tripled in 2020: Report

More than 17 percent of the imported health supplies on the UK’s “disaster relief list” came from China, a new report said. The report (pdf), published on Tuesday by British think tank Civitas, said the figure was at 6 percent in 2019 but almost tripled since the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. The latest data…


NHS Transgender Treatment of Children ‘Bordering on Ideological’: UK Health Secretary

British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Tuesday that the way the nation’s healthcare system currently handles cases of children with gender dysphoria is “bordering on ideological.” Responding to a question, Javid told MPs that he shared concerns about the NHS insisting on children’s perception of their own gender as a starting point for treatment,…


Myths, Equality, and the NHS

Commentary To call a belief a myth is usually to denigrate it, though there are beneficial myths as there are noble lies. There’s no doubt that myths can be harmful, however, for they can, and often do, obstruct critical thought. In Britain, the mythology of the National Health Service (NHS), which now manages to combine…


UK Hospital Denied Having Male in Female Ward After Patient Allegedly Raped by Transgender Person

A hospital in the UK has allegedly told the police that there was no male in its female ward after a woman was allegedly raped by a transgender person, it was revealed on Thursday. Debating on single-sex wards during the detailed scrutiny of the Health and Care Bill in the early hours on Thursday, Emma Harriet Nicholson,…


UK Family Doctors Under Pressure as Patients Are Stuck on NHS Waiting List

General practitioners (GPs) in the UK are under tremendous pressure as they have to support a record number of patients who are stuck on the NHS waiting list for specialist care, MPs heard on Tuesday. During an oral evidence session of Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee, a GP said she has to support patients on…


NHS to Stop Accepting Cash From Gambling Industry for Addiction Treatment

National Health Service (NHS) England is to stop taking cash from the gambling industry for the treatment of people suffering from addiction. NHS England’s national mental health director, Claire Murdoch, has written to the grant-making charity GambleAware to say the NHS will be fully funding its own gambling services from April 1. It comes as…


Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Staff Must Be Abandoned: UK Social Care Boss

Staff shortages are “paralysing” health and social care services in the UK and the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for frontline staff must be abandoned, a British social care boss has warned. CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccination has been made a condition of employment in care homes in England since November 2021. The same rule will…


No Payment for Health Care Staff Sacked Over CCP Virus Vaccine Mandate: NHS England

Unvaccinated health care staff who will lose their jobs due to the CCP virus vaccine mandate in England won’t be entitled to an exit payment, an official document shows. Guidance for the implementation of Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment (VCOD), published on Friday by NHS England, said that staff terminated due to the legislation…


Tens of Thousands of ‘Missing’ Cancer Patients During Pandemic: Report

Hundreds of thousands fewer referrals for suspected cancer were made by GPs in England during the course of the pandemic, according to a new analysis. This has led to tens of thousands fewer people than expected being diagnosed with cancer, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. It also warned that in less than three years…


UK Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Medical Staff

Front-line medical and social care staff in England must receive COVID-19 vaccinations to or lose their jobs, the UK government announced on Tuesday. In a statement to the House of Commons, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that all those working in the National Health Service (NHS) and social care will have to get vaccinated. “We…