Category: Health & Social Care

Today’s GPs are overloaded; there are too few of them, and they don’t have sufficient time to consult with their patients face-to-face.

The quality of healthcare in Belgium is of the highest level however, the system for accessing health care is different to that in the UK

The experience of one recent migrant from Canterbury, now resident in The Hague, of healthcare in the Netherlands.

Have Cancer: Can’t Travel – Difficulty in finding Annual Travel Insurance for people with a pre-existing medical condition.

Around two-thirds of the costs of the treatments are met via the CPAM – Caisse Primaire d’Assurance Maladie – for which we have what is known as a “Carte Vitale”. That is the part which the French Government claims from the UK to meet my costs. The remaining third is covered by taking out a mutual insurance policy – a “Mutuelle” – for which we pay €4 604,40 per annum (£3 935.38).

In a toxic world young people struggle. It is not their personal problems they are despairing about: it is the problem of humanity itself.

Nowadays a child in need of special help gets “statemented” for SEN. Claire’s brother spent his life incarcerated due to mental handicap

Why do people buy bottled water? What exactly are the health benefits of various types of water? What is wrong with tap water?

It’s not on the map. Kent does not seem to feature in tourism sites aiming to appeal to the differently-abled

The first Covid survivor I met left me in a shock. The horrible illness left lots of marks Peter will carry for the rest of his life.