Hints and tips:
...The West Midlands authority is on track with its 2016 target to build 215,000 new homes by 2031....
...May I add a suggestion to Margaret McCartney’s FT Weekend Essay on the powerful story of a GP’s journey (Life & Arts, July 8)?...
...Elizabeth Balsom, London SW15, UK Why patients need support so they can care for themselves / From Professor Sir Chris Ham, Co-Chair, NHS Assembly, Senior Visiting Fellow, The King’s Fund, Solihull, West Midlands...
...The West Midlands there. Yeah, sort of sort of round there. West Midlands and Tees Valley. Oh, I think that's too low. Anyway, Tees Valley. These are three contests that are interesting....
...Others noted that while they cannot get appointments to see their GP or have treatment at the local hospital, migrants arriving in the town had to be medically screened....
...Coles, originally from the Midlands, says: “This garden has made me love London more than ever. It’s taught me not to judge any person that comes here.”...
...What the ‘lived experience director’ job says of NHS / From Andrew Mackintosh, Oxford, UK The NHS is ruing the Wanless warnings / From Professor Sir Chris Ham, Co-Chair, NHS Assembly, Solihull, West Midlands...
...One student I know received a regretful email from a medical school in the Midlands informing her that she had been rejected because they had resorted to drawing a name from a hat....
...JH: I remember doing mobile maps on the generation of smartphones before the iPhone — [when] they were just starting to add GPS to mobile phones. And it didn’t work very well....
...Kitchen assistant Philippa Humphrey, 34, is frustrated at the absence of activities for children and long waits at pharmacies and GP surgeries....
...Sunak’s father, a GP, and mother, a pharmacist, moved to the UK from Kenya and Tanzania respectively....
...john.burn-murdoch@ft.com, @jburnmurdoch Letter in response to this column: The NHS is ruing the Wanless warnings / From Professor Sir Chris Ham, Co-Chair, NHS Assembly, Solihull, West Midlands, UK...
...The cases were found in the East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, South East, South West and West Midlands, the agency said....
...Typical of texts that have gone out to patients is one from a West Midlands group, which pointedly noted: “The government has instructed our practices to redeploy staff (including GPs) to the Covid booster...
...Between 240,000 and 740,000 individuals were given urgent GP referrals for suspected cancer during the pandemic and September 2021, but were recorded as “missing”....
...While he is in favour of rolling out tracing apps, the commissioner has been vocal in his opposition to the introduction of apps that would track individuals’ movements in real time using GPS technology....
...It is sometimes labelled a “continuation fund” or even, in the industry’s often-inscrutable jargon, a “GP-led secondary” or “adviser-led secondary”....
...Part one was the collapse of the red wall in the north and Midlands, which had become increasingly prosperous after the 40-year upheaval of deindustrialisation....
...Many houses in the Midlands are on the market for £300K or less. Market forces could level up where the government has failed....
...A study published in JAMA Network Open found that the AI tool also significantly improved diagnostic accuracy of non-specialists such as GPs and nurse practitioners, who used it to help them make diagnoses...
...Job moves Rothschild & Co has appointed Tim Eastwood to lead a new wealth management team across the English Midlands, based in Birmingham....
...But Andy Street, the Conservative mayor for the West Midlands, claimed the MPs were promoting “misinformation”....
...The Conservatives in 2012 gave GPs control over budgets to make them the “gateway of choice”....
...To place virtual objects in our world, our devices need to know the textures and contours of their surroundings, which GPS cannot see....
...The Midlands has administered the highest number of jabs since the rollout began: about 88 per cent of over-50s in the region have now received their first jab....
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