National health service News

Aberdeen - A Scottish health authority have said they are investigating what they term a “serious incident” when one of their vehicle fleet was taken to a local garage for vehicle repairs. The NHS Grampian health authority van contained a dead body.

Heard the one about the transport minister who claimed train fares are not too high? They aren't for him, because the taxpayer picks up the tab.

Bracknell - Phillip Lee is Conservative MP for Bracknell; he is also a general practitioner. Lately, the poor man appears to have become confused: he can't tell the difference between the Palace of Westminster and his surgery.

London - The prominent inclusion of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics has angered conservative politicians and perplexed many American observers.

The lead story on BBC Television news this morning was the Government's plan to revive public confidence in the National Health Service.

The UK government's current proposal to part-privatise parts of the Blood Service form part of a social and economic debate about the location of the Service which has come to the forefront at various times since the national Service was formed.

It’s being said that an anti-cuts campaigner – protesting at the alliance between the UK Tory and Liberal Democrat parties – was behind a paint-bomb attack on Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

London - Claire Rayner, the much-loved British agony aunt, gay-rights supporter, safe-sex campaigner and former nurse has died at her home. She was 79.

Hospitals in the United Kingdom lose around £100 per patient in revenue from missed appointments. Young men are targeted as the worst offenders.