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The GP substitute will see you nowAn army of more than 20,000 physios, pharmacists and paramedics are to be recruited to work alongside under-pressure GPs, NHS bosses say.The new staff will work alongside GPs, taking responsibility for some of the 300 million bookings made with practices each year.The will also provide continuing care to patients in the community.NHS England said this should allow GPs to spend more time with the sickest patients.The average appointment lasts about eight minutes, which GPs say is not enough time to deal with the complex issues an ageing population presents with.
Iron Age Britain beer-making evidence discovered in road worksArchaeologists have found what they believe to be the oldest traces of beer-making in England during major road works.Experts say tiny fragments of charred residue from the brewing process, potentially from as early as 400BC, were found in excavated earth in Cambridgeshire.Evidence that Iron Age locals had a taste for porridge and bread has also been uncovered during work to upgrade the 21-mile stretch of the road between Cambridge and Huntingdon.
E-cigarettes 'twice as good' at helping smokers quit compared to traditional methods, NHS study findsE-cigarettes are almost twice more effective at helping smokers to quit than traditional methods, according to new research.A major clinical trial which followed 886 people for a year found that 18 per cent of those who switched to vaping successfully gave up smoking compared to 9.9 per cent who turned to products such as patches, gum or lozenges.
British man and family made homeless after Home Office policy blocks them from renting property‘I am an Englishman, I served for nine years in the army, I have worked since I was 16 years old and it breaks my heart that my own government seems quite content to make a British citizen, his two British daughters and lawfully resident wife, homeless’A British man and his family have been made homeless after being told they could not rent a property in the UK because his wife was not eligible to rent under Home Office rules – despite the fact that she has the right to live in Britain.
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Fish and chip shops are selling endangered sharks, DNA tests provePeople buying generic fish such as rock could in fact be eating a range of shark speciesFish and chip shops and fishmongers are selling endangered sharks to an unwitting public, according to researchers who used DNA barcoding to identify species on sale.Most chip shop fish sold under generic names such as huss, rock, flake and rock salmon turned out to be spiny dogfish, a shark species classified as endangered in Europe by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s red list.
Theresa May will not be flying to Brussels in Spitfire, BBC clarifiesCorporation blames human error for suggestion caused by misplaced footage on News at SixThe BBC has blamed “human error” for a suggestion on its News at Six that Theresa May would be flying back to Brussels for more Brexit talks in a second world war Spitfire.But the explanation has been greeted with scepticism by some who saw the incident as an example of pro-Brexit bias at the BBC.
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