Health

We spoke to Greg Ramm, Save The Children’s Democratic Republic of the Congo’s country director.

Whilst the Games might be the greatest show on earth, there may be an unwanted conversation about whether nations should be spending this amount of money on an Olympics.

We spoke to Karen Hargrave, who launched a campaign to lobby for better care for people with the condition, after her husband’s life was decimated by the disease. She is also a sufferer.

A young woman died from malnutrition because of severe ME, a coroner has ruled – at the end of a ten day inquest in Exeter. 

At least 8% of the adult population in Wales now has diabetes, the highest estimated prevalence rate of the four UK nations. The rate of new diabetes registrations, mostly Type 2, continues to astound.

We spoke to the Diabetes Adviser for NHS England, Professor Partha Kar, as well John Barber, Deputy Director of the research and innovation institute, Nesta and Chef Giancarlo Caldese.

By 2050, 500 million more people across the world are likely to have Diabetes, mostly Type 2. In the UK the direct cost for the NHS is already estimated to run at over £10 billion a year.

Just as the government was congratulating itself on, it hopes, ending the junior doctors’ strike, it’s in dispute with another part of the health service. GPs say they have been driven to desperation.

The Health Secretary has announced a series of emergency measures after a damning review into the body which inspects NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and care homes in England.

The twin sister of a Latvian woman who died after being left for hours in the A&E waiting room of a Nottingham hospital, has told this programme she feels ‘let down’ by the NHS.

If you had the tools to fight a disease that kills 630,000 people a year – would you share them?

“Please help me get enough food to live.” The desperate words of Maeve Boothby O Neill, a young woman who died aged just 27 – nine years after being diagnosed with ME, the long term neurological condition which causes debilitating pain and fatigue. 

People across the country are dying in ways they have not planned for – that’s if they have planned at all.

“The UK government and devolved administrations and civil services failed their citizens.”

One major crisis facing the country that was notably absent from the King’s Speech was social care, despite its impact on the NHS.