Shaun Wooller
Health Editor, Policy at Daily Mail
Health Editor at the Daily Mail. Tips, reports, studies and press releases welcome. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Shaun Wooller
Untrained practitioners are offering fat jabs, butt lifts and Botox in public toilets in a ‘Wild West’ procedures market, trading standards leaders warn. The Chartered Trading Standards Institute said there is a need for urgent Government action over unregulated and unlicensed practitioners and treatments, alongside where they can be offered.
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Shaun Wooller
Dentists are working in McDonald’s as thousands are unable to secure a licence to practice despite a major shortage, a report reveals. A registration ‘bottleneck’ means dentists who trained overseas but want to work in the UK are being forced to make a living in fast food restaurants. The Association of Dental Groups said there is currently a backlog of 6,000 fully-trained overseas dentists in the queue to register with the General Dental Council.
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Shaun Wooller
Patients are angering NHS staff by secretly filming consultations and treatments on their phones and posting the videos on TikTok and Instagram. Medics have revealed that the intrusion is causing clinicians anxiety as well as risking revealing other patients' confidential medical information. They have now demanded that NHS officials introduce nationwide guidelines to ban covert recording in hospitals and clinics.
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1 week ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Shaun Wooller
More than a million workers are likely to resign in the next year due to illness or poor mental health, a study suggests. The fragility of the workforce is a 'direct challenge' to the Government's ambition to grow the economy and boost living standards, the Work Foundation warned. Researchers found the results are 'particularly concerning' among younger workers, where there is risk a new generation will be 'scarred by unemployment and economic inactivity'.
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2 weeks ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Shaun Wooller
The NHS is unlikely to hit waiting time targets despite getting an extra £29billion a year in the Spending Review, health chiefs said last night. Economists described the real-terms rise as 'substantial', with the health service budget now equal to the entire annual income of Portugal. But patients were yesterday told to brace for cuts to services, with much of the extra cash set to be swallowed up by inflation-busting pay rises and higher drugs costs.
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Doctors have been told to use the longest strike in NHS history as an opportunity to go for a picnic, have a BBQ or organise a 5-a-side football match. Union leaders say they only need to picket for 2 hours over the 5 days as ‘picketing can be tough work’. https://t.co/aukV9cFbm2
The BMA has been accused of hypocrisy for slashing the pay of its own staff while demanding taxpayers fund a 35% rise for doctors. It has cut pay by a fifth in real-terms since 2011 and needs to consider its ‘financial constraints’ before agreeing a rise. https://t.co/H8NdoIqPxy
A ban on advertising junk food online and on TV before the 9pm watershed is to be delayed by over two years — just weeks before it was set to take effect. @OHA_updates @DiabetesUK @actiononsugar @ad_association https://t.co/vY7LRPHJP4