Families could get discounts on their supermarket shopping if they hit weekly exercise “step targets” under radical NHS proposals. Free bikes, sprinting tracks on pavements and outdoor public gyms are also proposed as part of efforts to drive out couch potato lifestyles and reward those who try to shape up. The head of the health…
Waiting lists for routine NHS treatment such as hip and knee surgery are at their highest for a decade, official figures have show An estimated four million people were waiting to be seen by a specialist at the end of June, the first time the figure has been exceeded since 2007. Experts said the milestone marked a…
A new NHS plan to create more medical school places, confirmed to start next year, will target students from disadvantaged backgrounds to make the medical workforce more diverse, the Government has said. The Department of Health announced in October it will fund up to an extra 1,500 medical training places in England a year by 2020…
Lack of trained obstetricians is worrying, experts say, because of high risk of serious complications during and after birth Childbirth experts have warned that mothers’ and babies’ lives in Britain are being put at risk after an NHS inquiry into its maternity services uncovered serious shortages of doctors and midwives in maternity units. Almost nine out of…
Over a thousand extra doctors will be trained as part of the “biggest ever” expansion to the NHS’s medical workforce in England, health officials have said. An extra 1,500 doctors a year will be trained in the NHS by 2020 – boosting the current student doctor numbers of 6,000 by 25%, the Department of Health…