More than a thousand people in Oxfordshire have helped the county council prepare a new strategy to improve health outcomes for local people over the next five years. The new health and wellbeing strategy for Oxfordshire, 2024 – 2030, has been developed by Oxfordshire’s Health and Wellbeing Board – the partnership between local NHS services, the county council, … Read more
A drug that is about 20 per cent more effective than Ozempic has been approved to treat Type 2 diabetes patients on the NHS. Tirzepatide could benefit 180,000 people with diabetes after being given the green light by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) for use in the health service. As with … Read more
17,000 UK children suffer severe epilepsy but are being denied treatment Keto diets can work where drugs fail but the NHS won’t back using it Up to 17,000 children in the UK with severe epilepsy are being denied a potentially life-changing treatment due to a lack of NHS funding, the MoS can reveal. Experts have … Read more
A diet shake up and exercise is usually the go-to approach for those seeking to shift the scales. But while this usually means cutting out the junk food and packing in the fruit, veg and whole grains, others prefer a more extreme option — soups and shakes. In a matter of weeks, such potions and … Read more