Health & Beauty

The NHS is a beloved institution in the UK and should be celebrated. However, this does not mean the service is above criticism or legal action should it be found guilty of medical negligence. While the majority of people who use the service receive excellent care, some don’t. In order to hold the NHS to a high standard and, most importantly, to provide settlement to those who suffer from medical negligence, making claims against the service is essential. How, then, do you make a claim against the NHS, and what compensation could you be rewarded?

What is Medical Negligence?...

For the past several years, the NHS has been embattled with budget constraints that threaten the vitality of the country’s healthcare system as a whole. A combination of an increasing patient population and a decreasing number of qualified healthcare providers has created a need to minimise costs, often in creative ways. A focus on social and community care programs, outsourcing doctors from other countries, and putting a cap on providers’ pay have all come into the mix to help solve the financial challenges faced by the NHS over the years. However, there seems to be a disconnect in how...

People with learning disabilities are tackling obesity by making YouTube cooking videos as part of a pioneering new project from the disability charity United Response. CookABILITY, which launched in Paignton, Devon, aims to encourage people with learning disabilities, Down’s syndrome and autism to cook for themselves and eat healthy food. Research* shows disabled people are more likely to have poor diets and not exercise enough. In fact, over 80% of adults with learning disabilities fail to meet official minimum recommended levels for physical activity. United Response hopes to make...

Oral health has a long and often brutal history, with evidence to suggest that dentistry began almost 6,500 years ago in the form of a tooth that had been filled with beeswax. Dentistry figures in many ancient societies, from the Egyptians creating the first toothpaste made from rock, mint, salt, pepper and dried iris, to the Victorian era, where tooth extractions feature in literature from the time. However, although dentistry is evident from the earliest of our civilisations, oral hygiene has an even rockier past. Many great improvements were only made popular in the 20th century when...