Britain has one of the lowest numbers of hospital beds in Europe for young people struggling with serious mental health problems. Britain has a 9.4 specialist inpatients bed per 100,000 young people for those who are struggling with conditions such as anxiety, depression, psychosis, self-harm and suicidal thoughts. The UK is placed 18th in a…
England’s top doctors said practitioners offering cosmetic procedures should have training to help them protect vulnerable clients. Prof Stephen Powis believes providers should be officially registered and trained to spot people with mental-health issues or struggling with body image. 100 out of 1,000 practitioners are currently registered, a charity said that procedures such as botox…
A major study has shown the scale of the obesity problem in the UK. This has a significant risk of death and disease attached to weight gain. People with a body mass index (BMI) of 30-35 were 70% higher risk of developing heart failure than people with 18.25-25 BMI. The study was of 2.8 million…
More than half a millions children in the UK were not given the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017. This comes after NHS chief Simon Stevens warned measles cases had almost quadrupled in just one year and urged families to get the vaccine. Globally, 169 million children missed out on the first dose of the vaccine…
A report has revealed that an increasing number of medical professionals are at high risk of psychological burnout. The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned of a mental health crisis among doctors and medical students after a survey of more than 4,300 found that over a quarter have received psychiatric diagnosis. The report revealed that…
A increasing number of people with epilepsy have said they are having seizures which were triggered by flashing images on social media. The Epilepsy Society wants the government’s new plan to tackle “online harms” to recommend warnings about flashing images on social media. More than 18,000 people in the UK are thought to have epilepsy…
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