Lambeth is traditionally famous for its walk and its palace but here’s a new claim to fame for the borough – its residents are rubbish at keeping medical appointments. Last week, it was revealed that patients in Lambeth missed 69,886 primary care appointments last year. …
A nurse may get sacked for playing Undercover Angel at Ealing Hospital. Back in 2004, Nomalizewe Ndebele wore a camera around Ealing Hospital, where she works as a healthcare assistant. She secretly filmed the less than stellar standards of patient care for a Channel 4 …
Whilst “free at the point of use” is a fundamental value of the NHS one West London hospital is bucking up its ideas about treating foreign patients who are not entitled to free healthcare on the NHS by employing a “stablize and discharge” policy. At …
It sounds a bit like something out of sci-fi TV show, but the clever folks at Moorfields Eye Hospital have dreamed up a bionic eye and implanted it in their first two patients. The artificial eye, called Argus II, is implanted and attached to the …
A real fancy dagger goes under the hammer… …as does a really really old Koranic manuscript. Just as BA gets a hammering…from its own pilots The reputation of one London suburb also took a hammering today with a vicious robbery in Mitcham. ..whilst the NHS …
April already? How did that happen? We feel the best way to avoid getting April Fooled is to stay in and watch some TV. Here are a few things you may want to take a peek at! On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 31 March Poppy …
2012 “Friend-ship” scheme shelved before it sets sail. Is the sun setting on the Square Mile? Grape of wrath: Man slips on squashed fruit and sues M&S for “loss of confidence”. We think he’s got more chance of turning a profit by sending the video …
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