According to a report in the London Telegraph, anyone wishing to drink in a pub garden in Britain from Monday (only the outside areas will open) will be forced to hand over their phone to venue staff who must check the individual is registered on the government’s tracking app. Venues will face fines of £1000 if they are found to be admitting people who have not registered on the NHS Test and Trace... 

UK vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi says he expects bars, cinemas, restaurants and sports stadiums to all demand proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before allowing customers to enter their venues. Speaking with BBC Radio’s The World at One earlier today, Zahawi responded to the host’s question about immunity passports that are registered within a phone app to be allowed to enter a sports stadium... 

Britain’s Supreme Court has thrown the country’s deportation policies into chaos by ruling that a foreign criminal cannot be deported to a country with poorer free healthcare than the United Kingdom. Justices including the top court’s infamous former president, Lady Hale, and two colleagues who also serve as ad hoc members of the European Court of Human Rights, agreed with a Zimbabwean migrant... 

Thugs have been mugging doctors and nurses to steal their identity badges in order to access priority shopping and freebies from supermarkets during the coronavirus pandemic. With shops facing supply chain delays and National Health Service (NHS) staff working long hours, supermarkets have opted to support their healthcare professionals by offering them priority shopping and freebies like snacks and... 

Patients deemed to be “racist” or “homophobic” will be denied care in NHS Trust hospitals under new rules set to take effect in April. “Currently, staff can refuse to treat non-critical patients who are verbally aggressive or physically violent towards them,” reports Sky News. “But these protections will extend to any harassment, bullying or discrimination, including homophobic, sexist... 

A British court has sentenced Manish Shah, a doctor for the National Health Service (NHS), to life in prison with a minimum fifteen-year sentence after he was convicted of sexually assaulting dozens of his female patients. Shah, who worked as a General Practitioner at the practice in the borough of Havering in East London, was born overseas and speaks Hindi and Gujarati. The 47-year-old was found... 

A 12-year-old child believed to have been born in the “wrong body” is set to receive hormone blockers from a National Health Service (NHS) clinic. Ashley Lamin, a Kent resident who claims to be a girl born in a boy’s body, is one of the youngest UK citizens to begin the sex change process, the Metro UK reports. Ashley – whose name has been changed legally by a deed poll – says that she eventually... 

The risk of obesity giving people cancer may be ‘considerably underestimated’, a study has warned. Being fat may actually be more than twice as dangerous as previously thought when it comes to certain forms of the disease. And excess weight is second only to smoking when it comes to avoidable cancer-causing lifestyles. Bowel, kidney, pancreatic, ovarian, endometrial and oesophageal cancer... 

The UK’s regulator for nursing, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), has confirmed that the number of nurses from outside Europe registering for the first time to work in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has surged by 126 percent in a year as the numbers of white EU medical staff continued to decline in the face of Brexit. The NMC said that between March 2017 and March 2018, 2,724 nationals... 

Five orthodox Jews have appeared in court in London charged with several criminal counts including laundering cash from the sale of fake and unlicensed medicines after more than £19 million passed through their accounts, according to a report in the Daily Mail. According to the newspaper, prosecutors say counterfeit medication was bought in European countries such as Germany, Austria and France before... 

London’s knife and gun crime epidemic is so bad that hospitals are starting to look like war zones, according to a top surgeon. Dr Mark Griffiths, lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said: “Some of my military colleagues have described their practice here as similar to being at (Camp) Bastion. “We used to look after people in their twenties. Now people are often in their mid... 

A ransomware virus is spreading aggressively around the globe, with over 100,000 computers in 99 countries having been targeted, according to the latest data. The virus infects computer files and then demands bitcoins to unblock them. An increase in activity of the malware was noticed starting from 8am CET (07:00 GMT) Friday, security software company Avast reported, adding that it “quickly... 

The British government has issued guidelines on how much alcohol adults should drink, for the first time in twenty years. The UK’s chief medical officer says women should drink no more than seven glasses of wine a week, whereas men should drink no more than the equivalent to six pints of beer. Alcohol is one of Britain’s biggest health problems, with binge drinking being a prime cause of anti-social... 

The UK’s former health minister, Norman Lamb. Britain’s former health minister warns the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) will crash, unless instant cash is injected into the healthcare system. Norman Lamb says the NHS will crash within two years with catastrophic consequences unless the government orders a multibillion pound cash injection. The stark warning comes amid mounting fears among... 

A new report in the UK points to the practice of using sick children as guinea pigs in NHS experiments with tainted blood. According to the Sunday Express, sick children were used as guinea pigs as the National Health Service (NHS) said chimps were ‘too expensive’ for such tests. Hemophiliac children were injected with “extraordinarily hazardous” blood products to see how infectious...