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
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
Bicycles will be prescribed by doctors for patients and all Britons will be offered free training on how to ride in a £2billion drive to get fat Britain ‘on its bike’. Free repair vouchers worth £50 will be handed out and there will be a massive expansion of cycle lanes as part of a revolution … Read more
Doctors will be told to prescribe country walks to boost patients’ physical and mental health under new proposals to ease burden on NHS Environment Secretary George Eustice will tell GPs to issue ‘green prescriptions’ These will tell patients to spend more time outside in Britain’s beauty spots Vulnerable people could also be sent on coach … Read more