Good morning and Happy Sunday. Our news for today comes via Facebook. Everyone aged 11 years and over who lives, works or is educated in the London postcode area E1 is strongly encouraged to take a COVID-19 PCR test when … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 02.05.2021: Surge testing in Tower Hamlets, tombs discovered in Egypt, and more.
Our news digest this morning comes from my personal Twitter account @VShah1984. UK journalism site journalism.co.uk’s Newsrewired blog discusses how people can maximise teamwork in remote working for reporters under the ‘new normal’, with writers facing a new kind … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 11.07.2020: Still surviving the pandemic
Today’s news digest is brought to you via Google News services. American president Donald Trump has come under fire from the medical community after suggesting that using bleach and blasts of ultraviolet light to cure people of coronavirus, with … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 24.04.2020: Trump’s coronavirus bleach cure lambasted by doctors
Today’s news brought to you via Google News. A plane heading from Turkey with badly needed stocks of PPE (personal protective equipment) has now landed in the UK, The Guardian reports. The emergency supplies are currently being checked before … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 22.04.2020: PPE troubles and emergency flights for UK’s NHS
London, United Kingdom VIJAY SHAH via LUKE ACTON/Ilford Recorder According to data released by the UK’s public health agency, the National Health Service (NHS) recently, the Service’s trusts in the east of London have had to pay out … Continue reading EAST LONDON’S MEDICAL MISTAKES: NHS trusts pay out millions in compensation
Basildon, United Kingdom VIJAY SHAH via YASMIN HARISHA & JOE DAVIES/EssexLive An official investigation has been launched into the sudden death of a nine-year-old boy from the town of Basildon, Essex county, in England just days after he … Continue reading ESSEX MEDICAL CONTROVERSY: Investigation opened into death of child discharged from local hospital
Cardiff, United Kingdom VIJAY SHAH via KATIE BELLIS/WalesOnline Every year, around 200,000 children in the UK contract chicken pox, an illness that is generally harmless in its juvenile form, but can cause small red spots over the body and … Continue reading HEAD AND SPOT RELIEF?: A hack for itchy children with chicken pox goes viral
Cairo – VIJAY SHAH The Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), a subdivision of the World Health Organization has released a statement calling for unimpeded and immediate access to civilians affected by the ongoing civil war in Syria, HEM News Agency exclusively reports. The statement, prepared in Cairo, Egypt and released today, expressed concerns for trapped victims of the war currently stranded in the eastern Ghouta district just outside the Syrian capital of Damascus, where there has been intense fighting between the army of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad and various rebel groups. EMRO believes that up to 400,000 … Continue reading WHO – Issues statement demanding unlimited aid access to Syrian crisis victims
Birmingham – VIJAY SHAH People in the world of healthcare technology are eagerly awaiting the arrival of ehi LIVE 2017 in just two day’s time, as the UK’s leading get-together for experts and users of digital healthcare gets ready at Hall 1 of the NEC Arena in Birmingham on the 31st October and 1st November 2017. ehi LIVE, an event which aims to bridge the gap between medical technology, clinicians and their patients, is a yearly occurrence and is organised by international exhibitions agency Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions. ehi LIVE will look at key developments in the digital healthcare field, … Continue reading EHI LIVE 2017: Two days left until leading healthcare event
London – VIJAY SHAH via ALEX SHAW and Newham Recorder A poorly performing doctor’s surgery in the London Borough of Newham’s Manor Park area, east London, was ordered to close down after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ruled it as inadequate, reported local newspaper Newham Recorder. The Manor Park Medical Centre, in Romford Road, was responsible for 1,300 local patients. It’s closure came after it failed three inspection reports in a row, the last one carried out in July 2017, the Newham Recorder stated. The CQC, which ensures standards of medical facilities in the UK, was scathing … Continue reading MANOR PARK SURGERY: Failing Newham medical centre shuttered by CQC
