I do not hate the NHS
The vitriol and abuse I received following a story comparing US and UK mortality rates was astonishing. But if we don’t point out the bad and good of the NHS, will it ever achieve its potential?
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Argentinian eight-year-old Claudio Gabriel Nancufil is the latest infant grabbing headlines for his amazing football skills. We wish him very well, but urge his mum to check this page.
Beijing is to ease its strict one-child policy, as part of a range of sweeping reforms. Channel 4 News answers the key questions on the controversial policy.
GPs will have more responsibility for the elderly in a bid to ease pressure on A&E, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says. But Labour claims it has become harder to see a GP under the coalition.
The Royal College of Nursing claims that there are nearly 20,000 unfilled nursing posts in England, putting patients at risk. FactCheck rolls up its sleeves to find out how unhealthy nursing numbers really are.
As youth unemployment in Italy reaches a new all-time high of 40.1 per cent, our newest “Austerity Kid”, Agata Scionti, 26, tells Channel 4 News that young Italians “are unable to dream any more”.
The vitriol and abuse I received following a story comparing US and UK mortality rates was astonishing. But if we don’t point out the bad and good of the NHS, will it ever achieve its potential?
Hundreds of thousands of carers are on zero hours contracts. That means no job security or guaranteed hours and work that can be cancelled at the drop of a hat.
Britain’s elderly population is growing according to new figures, with a five-fold increase in the number of centenarians over the last three decades.
NHS chief Sir Bruce Keogh says he is taking very seriously figures revealed by Channel 4 News which show that health service patients are 45 per cent more likely to die in hospital than in the US.
There is no doubt that A&E departments are under pressure, but are they shouldering GPs’ work as Jeremy Hunt claims? FactCheck dons its white coat.
Unison claims the closure of public loos could be infringing our rights. FactCheck takes a leak.
Table tennis, ping pong, wiff-waff: call it what you will, it’s increasingly popular in the UK, with 2.4 million players. Now there are suggestions it could even help with conditions like dementia.
As the government pledges £500m to help relieve pressure on struggling services, Chanel 4 news speaks to A&E Consultant Dr Clifford Mann about life in the field.
Two British teachers caught up in the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tell Alex Thomson why they continue to teach their evacuated children, somewhere, somehow.
Forty-eight people are rescued from a passenger boat after it hit a rock on a Welsh island on Saturday afternoon, coastguards confirm.