Julian Le Grand, a professor at the LSE, recently proposed, in his capacity as chair of Health England (”a national reference group for health and wellbeing”) making people apply for a £10 license in order to be able to buy cigarettes and, one presumes, other forms of tobacco.
I have to ask whether Professor Le Grand [...]

Lord Darzi has said that single-sex wards are not possible:
“The only way we’re going to have single-sex wards within the NHS is to build the whole of the NHS into single rooms.
which, apparently, drew ‘an angry response’ from the Patients [sic] Association:
We want to see entirely single sex wards, not accommodation. Otherwise patients still have [...]

AXA PPP Healthcare have recently been advertising on the television and on the Tube, amongst other places, its six week option; for a lesser price than insurance which will treat you privately immediately, you are seen by a private physician if the NHS can’t see you within six weeks. I’m not precisely sure on what [...]