Health

NHS unveils plans to sell patient data to corporations

NHS unveils plans to sell patient data to corporations

The government has recently unveiled plans to sell all of the private medical records and data about NHS patients to third party businesses and corporations. Effectively, this means that later this year, companies will be able to buy information on us from the NHS’s new universal patient database – including everything from mental health conditions, sexually transmitted infections and diseases[Read More…]

Death warning as MPs slam Atos

Death warning as MPs slam Atos

Thousands of terminally ill and disabled people across the UK have died following assessments by Atos, it has been revealed. Opening a debate in Parliament, former Labour minister Michael Meacher said that 1,300 people have died after being placed in the “work-related activity group”. He said: “I have been sent nearly 300 case histories, many of which make heart-rending reading.[Read More…]

Charges dropped against men accused of ‘stealing’ Iceland’s discarded food

Charges dropped against men accused of ‘stealing’ Iceland’s discarded food

Three men who were caught taking food out of a Iceland’s litter bin have had charges dropped against them following a public outcry. The Crown Prosecution Service said it would drop its case despite having previously said there was “significant public interest” in prosecuting the men. They were caught last year taking tomatoes, mushrooms, cheese and Mr Kipling cakes from[Read More…]

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Mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin is successfully reunited with stranger who saved his life

Do you remember last week when we reported the story about a suicidal man who had launched a campaign to find a stranger who saved his life? Jonny Benjamin hit the headlines last month after he launched a campaign with the help of the charity Rethink Mental Illness, to find the stranger who intervened when he was about to jump[Read More…]

Obama has admitted to smoking marijuana in his younger days

Obama admits ‘marijuana less harmful than alcohol’

Marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, according to the President of the United States. This is a fact that many have known for sometime, but one which the authorities, are still to a large extent, willfully ignorant of. Speaking in an interview with the New Yorker editor David Remnick, Mr Obama said that while he does not encourage marijuana[Read More…]