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The British Medical Association (BMA), the professional association and trade union for doctors and medical students in the UK, has voted to decriminalise abortion after the current legal limit of 24 weeks. Over 500 delegates debated the motion, presented by

The Conservative Party has been accused of planning to implement the “biggest stealth tax in history” through changes to social care funding, which will see pensioners liable for the cost of their own care.

The impact of the WannaCry virus attack has been limited in the United States so far, although security analysts fear that could change in the coming days. The virus has been running wild across Europe and Asia, inflicting an untold amount of financial damage and putting lives in danger, since one of the biggest targets was Britain’s National Health System. Following are 15 important facts about WannaCry, including tips on how to protect vulnerable systems.

LONDON (AFP) – A fast-moving wave of cyberattacks swept the globe Friday, apparently exploiting a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency. The attacks – which experts said affected dozens of countries – used a technique

The National Health Service (NHS) has been hit by an unprecedented, large-scale cyber-attack.

People living in the United Kingdom are the second least free in Europe in terms of access and freedom to enjoy tobacco, alcohol, and sugary food and drink, according to a new study which records increasing regulation on such items across the continent.

The Conservatives will retain their policy of spending 0.7 per cent of UK GDP on foreign aid each year, Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed.

There is still much dispute as to precisely what it was that persuaded 17.4 million Britons to vote for Brexit last year. Some may have done it to regain Britain’s sovereignty, some to curb immigration, some because they realised correctly that everyone on the Remain side of the argument from one-hit-wonder gobshite Bob Geldof to that preening renter of overpriced desert islands Richard Branson was a weapons-grade, copper-bottomed tick.

Over 500,000 confidential patient documents were mislaid and left undelivered in the latest National Health Service (NHS) fiasco.

Contents: Obamacare follows Nixon’s wage-price controls in financial ‘death spiral’; Britain’s National Health Service continues its own death spiral

Contents: Britain’s hospitals run out of beds as Red Cross declares NHS in ‘humanitarian crisis’; Violent protests in Sri Lanka over China’s takeover of Hambantota seaport

AA Gill, the award winning writer and restaurant critic who died on Saturday of cancer aged 62 was denied cutting edge treatment that could have prolonged his life, as the NHS deems it too expensive. Writing about his experience of

MPs from all major parties have called for the UK to “catch up” and recognise “gender identity” on passports and in law, increase access to sex change surgery on the NHS, and encourage transgender lesson and “gender neutral” toilets in schools.

Contents: Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) forced to close emergency rooms; Syrian regime sending ‘leave or die’ text messages to Aleppo residents

The NHS is still falling woefully short of collecting payments due from foreigners using its services, a new report has revealed. The figures have prompted the government to draw up plans for debt collector ‘hit squads’ to visit NHS Trusts which consistently fail to recover costs.

An NHS mental health trust “severely underestimated” the risks posed by some of its patients, resulting in the unlawful killings of ten people, a report has found.

Agents in Nigeria have been offering pregnant women paid assistance to have their babies for free on the NHS, a hospital manager has claimed, prompting the London hospital she works for to begin asking pregnant women to show their passports

Contents: UK’s National Health Service continues to slash services to survive; UK’s ‘junior doctors’ call a devastating 5-day strike against the National Health Service; Obamacare in severe death spiral, as insurers bleed billions

“We must have more black and Asian women running the NHS”, said no National Health Service patient, ever. That’s because if you’re in serious need of treatment, as I was earlier this year, you’re too busy with more important stuff.

As many as 7,400 migrants working in customer facing jobs within the public sector may not be able to speak English well enough to do their jobs, a government report has found.

Health authorities have recorded 5,702 new cases of female genital mutilation in just one year, official figures show, equivalent to more than 100 cases every week.

Leaving the European Union (EU) is likely to make the National Health Service (NHS) safer for patients by driving up excellence and allowing management to crack down on poor language skills by foreign workers, Britain’s most senior surgeon has said.

The National Health Service (NHS) would be imperiled if Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU), Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England has warned. But Mr Stevens conceded that much of the pressure currently felt by the

Between 2.6 and 5 million more migrants could come to live in the UK over the next 15 years if we remain within the European Union, putting an unprecedented strain on the NHS, the Justice Secretary has warned. Albania, Macedonia,

Faced with becoming only the second British Prime Minister in a century to be defeated on his Queen’s Speech, David Cameron has avoided embarrassment by surrendering to the demands of eurosceptic Tory rebels over protecting the National Health Service (NHS) from the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.

Eurosceptic Tory rebels are threatening to vote down the Queen’s Speech unless Prime Minister David Cameron agrees to a Labour Party amendment to exempt the National Health Service (NHS) from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 25 potential Tory rebels are reportedly

Pro-National Health Service (NHS) campaign groups have rejected Prime Minister David Cameron’s assertion that Britain’s system of socialised medicine is protected from the “real and serious threat” of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The Assistant General Secretary of the the Unite

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will be in severe danger if Britain does not vote to leave the European Union (EU), a top cancer specialist has warned. With less than 50 days to go until the Brexit referendum, Professor Angus

Contents: Britain’s NHS facing massive strike from ‘junior doctors’; Britain’s NHS financial crisis is being tied to the ‘Brexit’ debate; Obama administration tries to stop Obamacare death spiral

Polls show that ‘Leave’ is fast gaining ground against ‘Remain’ as official campaigning for Britain’s upcoming referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) begins. On the question of whether Britain should leave the EU YouGov’s latest survey results show both campaigns are

Unless Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU), the National Health Service (NHS) will face a “myriad of dangers” from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), according to a former Foreign Secretary. Lord Owen has warned that if TTIP negotiations

In the latest ‘Project Fear’ example, the Conservative Health Secretary has claimed the economic shock of leaving the European Union (EU) would leave a damaged National Health Service (NHS) lacking staff and vital investment. Polling suggests most voters believe that

British taxpayers have been left to foot a £181,000 bill run up on the National Health Service (NHS) by an illegal immigrant, as health bosses are not bothering to chase up payments for foreign nationals. Overall, millions are being lost

Leaving the European Union (EU) could save the NHS, a leading doctor has said, as Britain would make a net saving of £8 billion a year by withdrawing from the bloc – money which could be used to close the

Socialised healthcare means socialised health — what else did you expect? Most people in this country delegate their healthcare to the most fabulously Byzantine and staggeringly expensive insurance scheme ever conceived. Yet because the National Health Service (NHS) — unlike most

It’s 100 days until Britain’s European Union (EU) referendum, and the signs are relatively good at the moment for the Eurosceptics. As we reported earlier: “Although latest polling has the European Union (EU) referendum result virtually tied at 49 per cent Leave to