Boy, nine, died of sepsis after being discharged from A&E with 'mild chest infection'
Health Service Ombudsman concludes death of Thomas Hull - hours after he was sent home following 'two-minute' consultation - was avoidable (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: sepsis Thomas Hull Health Service Ombudsman Source Type: news
'No one to be prosecuted' over Mid-Staffs scandal
A three-year police review has found insufficient evidence to charge a single manager, doctor or nurse (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: review prosecutions police hospital charges scandal stafford staffs Source Type: news
Lack of sleep can give you the 'munchies'
Study finds that sleep deprivation can cause cravings for high-calorie snacks, an effect scientists compare with the "marijuana munchies" (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cannabis obesity munchies sleep hunger science Source Type: news
Theme parks can inspire new towns to beat childhood obesity, says NHS boss Simon Stevens
Fast food restaurants will be banned near schools as Government builds 10 new 'healthy towns' (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Healthy Towns Obesity Simon Stevens Childhood Theme Parks Source Type: news
Everyday foods at popular high street supermarkets contain 'shocking' levels of salt, study reveals
Heart disease is still the biggest preventable cause of death in the UK (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: health salt heart disease Source Type: news
Bed Blocking crisis to cost NHS £3.3 billion in next five years
Around 8,500 people a day are stuck in NHS hospitals because there are not enough care homes and the problem will only get worse, says ResPublica (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: health bed blocking respublica NHS care homes report Source Type: news
NHS chief at centre of 111 scandal authorised secret policy which recorded 999 calls as receiving a 'swift response'
Exclusive: The rule was applied regardless of whether the medical emergency could have been helped by a defibrillator, or whether any attempt was made to use it, a leaked report reveals (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Older people feel 'more serene' than younger adults - study
They also have a richer concept of what it means to feel serene, say researchers (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: serene study Rebecca Ready older people Source Type: news
Baby's body found dumped on a secluded path
Police appeal for the mother to come forward after a walker find the body of a dead baby dumped on a footpath in a picturesque Oxfordshire village (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thousands of NHS doctor and nursing posts are vacant
More than two-thirds of NHS trusts and health boards are actively trying to recruit from abroad as they struggle to cope with finding qualified staff (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: health trusts figures department of health nhs nurses ons vacancies office of national statistics doctor Source Type: news
Chemical found in babies' dummies and condoms 'probably causes cancer'
WHO rules MBT is a carcinogen, but experts say the risk to public in everyday products is low (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MBT WHO chemical babies dummies rubber cancer condoms carcinogen Source Type: news
Heatwaves and cold snaps make babies shorter and smaller, scientists find
Women who experience 'weather shocks' in pregnancy go on to have babies that are lighter and smaller a major study has found (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: climate smaller health problems pregnancy babies heatwaves weather shorter cold snaps Source Type: news
George Alagiah: 'I wasn't afraid of dying. I just wanted to get on with treatment'
Now free of stage four bowel cancer, the BBC newsreader says he wouldn't change anything about the previous year of his life (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: six o'clock news george alagiah bbc bowel cancer Source Type: news
Scandal of high salt levels in sandwiches at Britain's coffee shops
Sandwiches and paninis sold by Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa contain high proportions of the maximum daily salt levels recommended by health experts (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: costa health CASH caffe nero NHS salt starbucks Source Type: news
Private clinics accused of cashing in on meningitis jab demand
Medical centres said to be exploiting parents' desperation by hiking prices, amid a worldwide shortages of the vaccine Bexsero (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
