Day: September 3, 2016

    Smokers and obese people will be denied surgery on the NHS by cash-strapped hospitals trying to save money, senior health officials have warned. It's the only way providers are going to be able to balance their books... the service is bursting at the seams. Vale of York Care Commissioning Group has announced it will make people wait up to a year for non-essential surgery if they are overweight, until their body mass index (BMI) drops to 30. The group said the decision has been made as “the best way of achieving maximum value from the limited resources available”. The Royal College of Surgeons has described the decision as “the most severe the modern NHS has ever seen” amid concerns the NHS’ funding crisis is seriously impeding its ability to function. Chris Hopson, head o...

    The world was horrified this week by footage showing a young grinning boy aged just 11 executing Kurds in a sickening ISIS propaganda video. Even more shocking was the revelation that the young lad, called Joe Dixon, is the son of British ISIS convert Sally Jones, 47. As pictures emerge of the innocent newborn tot with his grinning mum in hospital, his devastated grandparents reveal how Joe was a "kind and loving" boy before he arrived in Syria. Joe is the youngest child of Jones, who took her son on her ill-fated travels to the war-torn region in 2013. The heart-warming images of the tot being cradled by his beaming mum are a far cry from the gruesome footage emerging this week of Joe dressed in ISIS uniform, wielding a gun before shooting a Kurdish prisoner in the back o...