UK Summer Bank Holiday in August: NHS offers emergency health advice to cover everything from dental care to mental health for a smooth holidayNational Health Service Greater Manchester advises citizens to prepare for the upcoming summer bank holiday. They suggest planning for heal...
05 Aug, 2025, 07.57 AM IST
Is Body Roundness Index the new BMI, is it an accurate health indicator? Here's what NHS has to sayRecent reports are claiming that Body Roundness Index is being termed as the new Body Mass Index which is being abbreviated as BMI and NHS ...
04 Dec, 2024, 09.58 PM IST
English language test dashes nurses' hopes of filling UK jobsThe Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the profession's regulatory body, requires overseas trained nurses to sit a language test before t...
02 Dec, 2022, 10.41 AM IST
UK PM sets Jan 2022 booster jabs timeline as 'best' Omicron defenceFlanked by his Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, and National Health Service (NHS) England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard, the UK PM said ad...
30 Nov, 2021, 11.18 PM IST
UK PM Johnson looks set to confirm July 19 lockdown end, with cautionUK Health Secretary Sajid Javid will update Parliament on the plans from next Monday and lay out that the government's four tests to lift l...
13 Jul, 2021, 07.58 AM IST
UK's COVID-19 vaccine rollout expands to over-56 age groupsLetters from the National Health Service (NHS) to around 850,000 people in that age group were issued this weekend with a further 850,000 d...
07 Mar, 2021, 05.41 PM IST
UK COVID-19 vaccine rollout expands to over-60s in latest phaseAlmost 2 million people aged 60 to 63 will be invited after over 64s had been covered in the previous phase and letters will start arriving...
28 Feb, 2021, 10.16 AM IST
Economic Survey: Healthcare needs a shot of fundsIt observed that India has one of the highest levels of OOPE in the world, contributing directly to the high incidence of catastrophic expe...
30 Jan, 2021, 07.49 AM IST
Economic Survey recommends creation of a regulatory body for the healthcare sectorIt said that since the bulk of healthcare in India (74 percent of outpatient care and 65 percent of hospitalisation) is provided through th...
29 Jan, 2021, 08.35 PM IST
UK plans localised lockdowns as covid-19 deaths among Indian-origin people remain high"With local flare-ups it is right we have a localised solution in terms of infection control, social distancing, testing and many of the to...
28 Jun, 2020, 05.35 PM IST
GOQii partners with Modality to offer health services in UK"GOQii through its smart preventive ecosystem enables users to make a positive lifestyle shift and we have seen early success with our user...
19 Sep, 2017, 11.36 AM IST
North Korean hackers behind WannaCry cyber-attack: ReportThe same group is believed to have targeted Sony Pictures in 2014 during the release of the film 'The Interview', a satire about the North ...
18 Jun, 2017, 12.46 PM IST
Indian doctors suffer bias within UK medical system: ReportDoctors from Egypt and Nigeria were eight times more likely to be questioned, compared to seven times more likelihood for Iraqi doctors and...
16 Apr, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
UK plans to hire GPs from India to meet shortage"These are initial discussions but we look forward to announcing the outcomes of this work over the coming months and years as it progresse...
07 Apr, 2016, 09.58 PM IST
Smartphone health apps may pose privacy riskIt is currently estimated that one and a half billion users have a health app installed and this number is set to treble in the next 3 year...
25 Sep, 2015, 06.59 PM IST
UK to recruit Indian doctors through Skype interviewsThe UK is mulling recruiting around 50 doctors from India to tackle a staffing crisis, days after a court ruled against Indian-origin docto...
27 Apr, 2014, 01.14 AM IST
British Indian dentist 'bullied and harassed' before suicideA British Indian dentist from Yorkshire committed suicide after allegedly being "bullied and harassed" by the National Health Service.
11 Aug, 2013, 11.05 PM IST