Five-year-old Alfie* hadn’t spoken a word at school all year until he started forest school. Being in nature, he finally opened up about the reason
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Russia’s healthcare crisis accelerates rural decline
Life was being made easier for Muscovites – who have comparatively good healthcare – to keep them happy and prevent them protesting against authorities, he said. “Moscow
Doctors unable to order blood tests as crisis over shortage of components grows
GPs are increasingly unable to order blood tests, including those for cancer and serious heart conditions, as the shortage of Roche components becomes a national
Why Boris Johnson is walking a tightrope as he plots a route through the Covid crisis
Having spent the last few days locked in meetings with senior ministers and the Government’s top scientists, he is all too familiar with the hawk
Can bariatric surgery turn the tide on Britain’s obesity crisis?
An “emotional eater” since childhood, Claire Parker was 44 when she had a gastric bypass, where a small part of the top of the stomach
Supplies of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill children depleted during the coronavirus crisis, charity warns
Supplies of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill children have been depleted during the coronavirus crisis, a leading charity has warned. WellChild, the national charity for
Councils accused of worsening obesity crisis by not reopening children’s play areas
Those at greater risk of rapid weight gain now need to be allowed to burn off energy with friends in playgrounds, the British Obesity Society (BOS) say.
Coronavirus crisis reverses years of NHS waiting list progress as delays soar
Health policy think tanks are warning that, with hospitals set to remain hampered by the need to observe strict infection control and an expected increase
NHS must not use coronavirus crisis as excuse to avoid tackling failings, MPs say
Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS since 2014, has been criticised for the decision to discharge thousands of hospital patients into care homes at
Air travel is safest form of public transport during coronavirus crisis, says DfT adviser
“I think that planes are probably the safest form of public transport compared with the anarchy on the Tube with people milling around,” added Prof
