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4 days ago |
thetimes.com | Eleanor Hayward
Replacing GP receptionists with a “digital triage” system has made it easier for patients to see their family doctors, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The NHS said that 99 per cent of GP surgeries in England had now adopted an e-consultation system, meaning patients fill out an online form as their first point of contact.
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert |Eleanor Hayward
‘The boxes and flavours look the same so the ban is pointless. Young people are still going to find ways to get them,” one festivalgoer said as users shrugged off a national crackdown on disposable vapes. A ban on disposable vapes came into force across the UK on Sunday, but experts have warned it could have the “unintended consequence” of driving thousands back to smoking.
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Eleanor Hayward
The body of a British hiker has been found in the Dolomites five months after he went missing. Aziz Ziriat, 36, was discovered lying in a rocky crevice on Saturday by an Italian search team including rescue dogs. His body was 400m below where the body of his friend, Sam Harris, 35, had previously been found. The two went missing after they went hiking in snow-covered mountains on New Year’s Day, and the alarm was raised when they failed to catch their flight home to the UK.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Eleanor Hayward |Ali Mitib
On Thursday morning, a two-page letter from Wes Streeting, the health secretary, landed in the personal NHS email inboxes of every junior — or “resident” — doctor in the country. “Dear Resident Doctor,” it began, before making a detailed case for why they should not vote for strikes in an ongoing ballot.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Eleanor Hayward
Doctors should always trust a parent's gut instinct that their child is becoming severely ill, research has shown, finding that it is a better indicator of health than medical tests.
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