The £200m rescue package to increase access to NHS dentistry this year is not on track, a spending watchdog says. The dental recovery plan published by the Conservative government in February set a target of 1.5 million extra treatments in 2024-25. To achieve that, dentists were offered an increase in payments for seeing NHS patients … Read more
Sarah Funderburk, the leading woman as darkness falls at Battersea, is partial to salted potatoes. Brian Robb, the overnight race leader, slurps his way through 57 yoghurt tubes, the sort more commonly seen in a child’s lunchbox. Samantha Hudson dos Santos Figueira (formerly Amend), a GB 24hr runner and the British women’s 100-mile record holder, … Read more
In the wake of recent revelations by arrested synthetic drug carriers that they mostly used the public transportation network for the delivery of drugs, special squads of the Police, Excise and Government Railway Police have decided to intensify flash checks in buses, tourist vehicles and trains. Highway police officers too will be roped in to … Read more
Delhi: Abbott announced the launch of its innovative automation solutions, GLP systems Track, to support laboratories’ high-volume needs. India is now the world’s most populous nation, and the population is experiencing a rising chronic disease burden. As a result, the Indian diagnostic sector is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11 … Read more
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will introduce an app called ‘Where is my KSRTC’ to track buses in the line of ‘Where is my train app’, Kerala Transport Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar has said. Speaking to the media here on Thursday, the Minister said the KSRTC also has plans to set up a … Read more
South Central Railway (SCR) added 383.85 km to its rail network, bringing rail connectivity to several new areas, and also electrified a 1,017 route km during 2022-23, the highest addition in a financial year, said general manager Arun Kumar Jain on Friday. Addressing officers and staff on the occasion of the 68th railway week at … Read more
Commuters of short distance passenger trains have warned of protest, citing how a large number of passengers are unable to reach their workplaces and homes in time, since their trains are being detained to make way for the newly launched Vande Bharat Express through Alappuzha. They attributed it to the delay in doubling the 69-km … Read more
A mental health trust did not record a cause of death in many cases, a review finds. Source link
Panaji: The directorate of health services (DHS) in collaboration with three centres have developed a mobile app for real-time testing and surveillance of malaria among migrant labourers. Health services face challenges to check the spread of malaria among labourers as they are constantly on the move across the state. “Contractors move labourers from south to … Read more
Prof Baur said the trend was “particularly worrying”, adding that “governments and policymakers around the world need to do all they can to avoid passing health, social, and economic costs on to the younger generation” by assessing “the systems and root factors” that contribute to obesity. Source link