New warning over powerful painkillers: GPs told not to prescribe pills for chronic aches

New warning over powerful painkillers: GPs are told not to prescribe pills for chronic aches with no known cause… and recommend exercise instead, latest guidelines say Experts say drug treatments don’t provide a balance between benefits and risks Research shows ‘little or no evidence’ painkillers make difference to life quality New health guidelines say sufferers … Read more

Co-op starts putting GPS satellite tracking tags on MEAT in bid to stop shoplifters 

Co-op starts putting GPS satellite tracking tags on MEAT in bid to stop shoplifters Co-op has put the hi-tech boxes to house meat being sold in their stores  The devices have been spotted on items including rump steak and pork loin It comes after the chain introduced body-worn cameras for some of its staff By … Read more

STOCKS TO WATCH: Medical firm seeks all-clear to update GPs

STOCKS TO WATCH: Medical firm seeks the all-clear to update GPs By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 27 March 2021 Keep a health monitor on FTSE250-listed Primary Health Properties.  It owns 500 medical centres and Stocks to Watch hears it has submitted proposals to … Read more

New GPS satellite tags will be used to monitor burglars for 12 months after they are freed

New GPS tags will be used to monitor 250 burglars, thieves and robbers round-the-clock for up to a year after they are freed from jail in a £6million trial. Six police forces in England will pilot the use of electronic tags with satellite-tracking capability on offenders when they are released from prison so officers can … Read more

Covid UK: GPs will prescribe DIETS for more than 700,000 people to combat obesity

Sir Keith Mills, the inventor of Nectar points and Air Miles, will advise on a new approach to lifestyle changes under the proposals GPs will prescribe more than 700,000 people diet plans, apps and wearable activity trackers in a Government anti-obesity drive, as a report says Britain’s Covid-19 death rate is partly the result of … Read more

Antidepressants could be prescribed by GPs as the new weapon in the war on Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Antidepressants could soon be prescribed routinely by GPs to treat the UK’s most common bowel condition. Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, affects nine million Britons, causing agonising pain, bloating, diarrhoea and constipation – with few effective treatments available. Now, hundreds of GPs will offer a low dose of mood-boosting drugs to patients, as part of a … Read more

Elderly Britons may be missing invites for Covid jabs because GPs are having to TEXT them

Elderly Britons may be missing appointments for their coronavirus vaccines because GPs are sending them invites by text, doctors fear. Some over-80s who are next in line for the jab are being contacted on their mobile phones because of the ‘short notice of supply’. Dr Ollie Hart, a GP involved in the rollout in Sheffield, said … Read more

GPs are being forced to THROW AWAY leftover vaccines

GPs are being forced to throw away leftover vaccines rather than give patients second doses or use them on staff, medics have revealed. Local NHS leaders are said to have issued the instructions to doctors organising clinics, despite Professor Chris Whitty saying yesterday the UK’s roll-out of vaccinations was being held back by delayed deliveries … Read more

Covid UK: GPs are told to halt non-urgent care in bid to boost speed of vaccine rollout

GPs are told to halt non-urgent care in bid to boost speed of Covid-19 vaccine rollout Family GPs are told to stop routine appointments during the vaccine rollout Guidelines say more surgeries should pause non-urgent checks and tests It comes as GPs warn patients of ‘severe strain on health care in London’  By Kate Pickles … Read more

Homeless get Covid jabs as local GPs make rough sleepers a priority group for vaccinations

Homeless people will get Covid-19 jabs in the first scheme of its kind in the UK aimed at protecting rough sleepers and those living in shelters from the virus. Oldham Council and local GPs decided the town’s homeless people should be made a priority group to get the vaccine at the start of the rollout. … Read more