Written by The value of the UK’s private healthcare market rose to a record £12.4bn last year as long NHS waiting lists fuelled demand from individuals and the health service paid for nearly £3.5bn of procedures to help ease the care backlog. As private medical insurance boomed, total revenues generated in the independent healthcare sector hit an […]
In west and central Africa, recent heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease. New research suggests extreme weather events in Sudan, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger last month — which killed more than a thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more […]