#NHS News
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent
theguardian.com NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so.…
‘You wake up wondering where your next meal is coming from’: UK food bank crisis is only getting worse
theguardian.com At 7.40am, when Charlotte White, the Earlsfield food bank manager, arrives for work, people are already waiting outside the redbrick building of St Andrew’s church in…
ITV News journalist Emily Morgan dies, aged 45
theguardian.com Tributes have been paid to Emily Morgan, ITV News’ health and science editor, who has died aged 45, the broadcaster announced. Morgan, whose career with the channel spanned…
Broccoli ‘super soup’ may help keep type 2 diabetes at bay
theguardian.com Imagine eating a bowl of soup once a week that could help bring down your blood sugar levels and so reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This may sound like…
‘I used to say awful things’: Alan Carr on divorce, dating and the skit that haunts him
theguardian.com Alan Carr, plate in left hand, cutlery in right, is perusing the lunch spread. He’s starving. Absolutely starving. We’re in a big echoing loft with wood floors and he’s…
Record rise in people using private healthcare amid NHS frustration
theguardian.com Record numbers of people are paying for private healthcare, spending up to £3,200 on having a cataract removed and £15,075 on a new hip, amid growing frustration at NHS…
‘Why should anyone be hungry when there’s food that can be given away?’ The heroes feeding their neighbours
theguardian.com ‘We’ve just had the king’s coronation and people are still going hungry. What’s that about?” Food charity founder Cocoa Fowler speaks with the passion of someone who daily…
Labour's Keir Starmer hears siren's call of IT in the NHS
theregister.com Opinion Around 20 years after the largest public sector technology disaster in UK history began a £12 billion contracting escapade, they're at it again. "They" being the…
Trade unions try to adapt to new world realities – DW
dw.com Employee unions are making a lot of noise as the world around them changes. But is this really a renaissance for employees in a time of inflation, a worker shortage and…
Naga Munchetty tells of ‘constant pain’ from womb condition adenomyosis
theguardian.com The BBC presenter Naga Munchetty has revealed the excruciating pain caused by a little-known womb condition in the hope of raising awareness of adenomyosis, which is thought…
Postal desert island: Mull’s residents cut off from civilisation by Royal Mail
theguardian.com The allure of the Isle of Mull is its sense of apartness. In summer, flocks of tourists make the 45-minute crossing from the mainland to sample life on the edge. From the…
Sunak’s complacency towards the management of Britain’s accounts is breathtaking
yahoo.com Rishi Sunak is imposing the biggest tax rise the UK has seen since the 1970s. The Government’s decision to freeze personal tax thresholds for the next five years will drag…
The Observer view on immigration: it’s time for Tories to admit that Britain needs foreign workers
theguardian.com Immigration has long been a fraught area of political discourse. Legitimate discussions about its benefits and disadvantages have always had the potential to be co-opted by…
UK music festivals: how to save money on your summer fix
theguardian.com The cost of living crisis may be biting hard but what is almost certainly Britain’s most expensive music festival – costing up to £325 a person for only one afternoon and…
HRT medicine Utrogestan restricted in UK amid shortages
theguardian.com Ministers are restricting an hormone replacement therapy medicine for menopause symptoms to two-month prescriptions as the supplier struggles to meet soaring demand.…
Fertility test kits: affordable and easy but there are downsides
theguardian.com Growing numbers of people are buying at-home fertility tests despite concern from some leading doctors that these products may cause already anxious would-be parents to…
Finance delays for divorcing teachers and NHS staff as pensions recalculated
bbc.co.uk Although only teachers and NHS workers are currently affected, police officers, firefighters and armed forces personnel are expected to be next in line. Louise Harris, 41,…
UK Court tosses class-action style health data misuse claim against Google DeepMind
techcrunch.com Google has prevailed against another UK class-action style privacy lawsuit after a London court dismissed a lawsuit filed last year against the tech giant and its AI…
London court throws out lawsuit against Google over medical records
reuters.com Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free…
The Guide #87: Somebody save us from the awkward advert dancing trend
theguardian.com Back in the days when The Guide was a chunky A5 newspaper supplement rather than this sleek digital newsletter, it ran a column called The Hard Sell where, every week, a TV…
Internet in hysterics over "comical" note on dog's medication from vet
newsweek.com You would think that having only one eye would mean that your veterinary nurse would prescribe you eye drops without needing to specify which eye. Well, that's not what…
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month
theregister.com England's health service has stuck two deals to extend its Microsoft licensing terms for just one month at a cost of around £8 million ($9.9 million). Reseller deals with…
Record numbers of British workers are sick. No wonder the economy is too. But there is a cure
theguardian.com Britain has a sick economy. That’s not a metaphor for the flatlining of growth over the past year, but a statement of fact. Never before have so many people been out of the…
Is Palantir Stock A Buy On Its Artificial Intelligence Prospects In May 2023?
investors.com There's plenty for bulls and bears to hash out over Palantir Technologies (PLTR). Profitability has improved for PLTR stock, but revenue growth has decelerated. Bulls point…
Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite
theregister.com Oracle may have overpaid for software company NetSuite, but it wasn't founder Larry Ellison's fault, a Delaware court has decided after a nearly six-year legal fight brought…
Charities call for scrapping of VAT on sunscreen amid skin cancer fears
theguardian.com The high cost of sunscreen is resulting in more skin cancer cases, according to charities who are calling on the UK government to scrap VAT on protective creams. Melanoma…
Ben Whishaw Wins Best Leading Actor
deadline.com Ben Whishaw has won the coveted Leading Actor gong at the BAFTA TV Awards. Whishaw beat off competition from Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy, Slow Horses’ Gary Oldman,…
Gambling firm allegedly paid blogs to link new mothers to its online games
theguardian.com One of the UK’s leading gambling brands allegedly paid blogs advising new mothers to recommend its online casino games and link to its website, in a tactic that has been…
Savers have no right to expect an inflation-beating return
yahoo.com Easy peasy, most of us said when the Prime Minister set five targets for answering the concerns of voters earlier this year. He might as well have said he aimed to walk a…
A university education doesn’t have to lead to a lifetime of debt. There is another way
theguardian.com Fifty years ago, the average 24-year-old would have been married, living with their partner, and probably already a parent. Census data out last week shows that today…
‘He doesn’t understand journalism’: ex-producer’s verdict on BBC director general Tim Davie
theguardian.com The producer who was, until recently, at the heart of the BBC’s political coverage has criticised director general Tim Davie’s failure to “really understand journalism” and…