Sleep apnoea is not a minor inconvenience. It can severely affect physical and mental health, increase the risk of road and workplace accidents, and contribute to life-threatening conditions such as cardiovascular disease. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment are critical. Yet persistent underfunding has led to excessive waiting times and limited access to essential equipment, leaving many without the urgent care that they need. 

Men in Scotland are facing a silent health crisis. They are significantly more likely to die by suicide, experience social isolation, and suffer poorer health outcomes than women—yet why does Scotland still not have a dedicated Men’s Health Strategy? While the UK Government announced its first ever Men and Boys’ Health Strategy for England in November 2025, and countries like Ireland (since 2009) already have targeted policies in place, the Scottish Government has confirmed there are currently no plans to develop one. This is all despite clear evidence—including recent Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) research—showing men account for the vast majority of suicide deaths in Scotland. The Scottish Government has recognised that different groups have different health needs, demonstrated by the appointment of a Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health (2021-present) and a Women’s Health Plan (2021-29). Yet men, who face some of the most severe and persistent health inequalities, continue to lack a focused, national strategy to address their specific challenges. Is it because men are still influenced by the ‘Strong and Silent’ type Victorian male ‘worker’ cultural model and suffering in silence is seen as a badge of masculine honour so nobody ‘hears’ about it until it’s too late? In a recent response, Jenni Minto, Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health, confirmed “There are no current plans for the Scottish Government to develop a specific strategy focused on men’s health”. This comes at a crucial time, as Scotland prepares a new Suicide Prevention Action Plan, and as the rest of the UK begins taking coordinated action to improve men’s health outcomes. The Scottish Men's Sheds Association (SMSA), as the national body leading support for male lifestyle health, wellbeing, and prevention through the Men’s Shed movement, has never received direct funding from the Scottish Government’s ring-fenced budget for suicide prevention which increased again to at least £3 million for the 2026–27 financial year. This is despite more than 11 years of proven impact since the first Men’s Shed opened in Scotland, and the SMSA now supporting and developing over 210 Sheds nationwide—engaging 12,000+ men in their communities, reducing isolation, and improving both physical and mental health. The Scottish Government has stated it wants to explore “new and creative” ways to reach and support men. We welcome this ambition. However, it is deeply concerning that the government has not invested in, from this pot, nor fully utilised the over a decade-long infrastructure, expertise, and trusted community engagement already established through the intergenerational SMSA central hub and the collaborative research done over a four-year period with Glasgow Caledonian University.

The current measles outbreaks are unnecessary & preventable.

This petition will save hundreds if not thousands of lives and raise more awareness of symptoms of breast cancer. 

These professionals are being employed more and more, many working beyond their scope, eg. in GP, seeing undifferentiated patients (against the Leng recommendations). Patients have died due to PAs working above their competencies.  Trusts are still advertising for PAs/AAs when the role should be taken by a doctor, many of whom face unemployment. Patients are confused by these various 'consultants' who are not medically qualified. They think they're seeing a doctor. Doctors are being replaced! There is no way this should be the future for our NHS!

For more than two decades, East Kent has lived with the consequences of downgrading Kent & Canterbury Hospital. The result has been dangerous delays, overcrowded emergency departments, and the return of corridor care — something we were promised would never happen again. Patients in Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Faversham Folkestone, Dover and the surrounding villages now face long journeys to overstretched hospitals in Ashford or Margate. Lives are being put at risk. Staff are exhausted. Families are frightened. And our communities have been left without the local emergency and acute services they urgently need. Kent & Canterbury Hospital once provided excellent, life‑saving care for the whole region. It can — and must — do so again. Restoring full acute and A&E services is essential to ending corridor care, reducing dangerous delays, and giving East Kent the safe, dignified healthcare it deserves. We call on NHS Kent & Medway and the government to act now

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is more than £54 million in deficit and already in delay paying suppliers. Instead of getting emergency funding, the Trust is proposing to slash night, weekend and bank holiday pay for thousands of staff – a cut of up to 30% for many take-home wages. This will force experienced nurses, midwives, porters, HCAs and doctors to leave for better-paid jobs elsewhere – just as winter pressures hit our hospitals hardest. Patients at QMC and City Hospital will wait longer and face greater risk. We, the undersigned, demand that: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust REJECTS any cuts to unsocial hours enhancements and instead secures emergency funding from NHS England that protects both staff pay and patient safety. No more sticking plaster cuts on the frontline staff who held the NHS together through Covid and other challenges. The frontline staff did not cause the financial deficit in the NUH, and are vital for the patient's safety and care, more solutions exist.

Our aims: • An immediate pause on any sale or disposal process by NHS Property Services. • An agreement in principle that, should disposal proceed, the site be transferred at a nominal cost of £1 to the people of Moretonhampstead, acknowledging its historic purpose, community value, and original donation to the town.  • Sustained support from the Integrated Care Board (ICB), our MP ,and NHS property services (NHSPS) to develop a health and community hub on the site which would include; district nurses, a care agency, GP overflow and local wellbeing services. Moretonhampstead Community Hospital was built in 1900–1901 under the patronage of the Hambleden family for the people of Moretonhampstead and the surrounding area. Although it no longer has inpatient beds, it remains an important community asset, well suited to hosting local healthcare, district nursing, a care agency, and wider community initiatives. It has been extensively and continuously used since it's inception.  NHS Property Services is now preparing to sell the building on the open market or to a charitable community bid. This follows more than a decade of effort by the local GP practice, Wellmoor, and other groups to secure a future for the site. The Parish Council has also supported attempts to keep the building in public use. To date, our MP has offered intermittent but inconsistent support and has not secured any sustained stability for the building, while Devon ICB and NHSPS have shown no willingness to invest in it, either financially or philosophically. The last remaining vestige of NHS provision in the hospital was the district nursing team, co-ordinating local housebound care and using the building for ad-hoc clinics, catheter changes, patient reviews, and complex leg dressings. We were informed earlier this year that the district nurses were required to leave because the roof was leaking and the building was unsafe. Once vacated, we understand Devon ICB was able to declare the site surplus to requirements and instruct NHS Property Services to begin disposal. Following the eviction of the nurses to a local industrial complex, I have since been informed by NHSPS that the roof has been repaired which seems at odds to the original narrative.  NHS Property Services has not allowed local organisations full access to undertake an independent survey, preventing the community from developing an informed proposal for its reuse. The GP practice supports a community-led plan or retention in the NHS, but cannot afford to purchase the hospital and cannot relocate. It must remain at the existing health centre, which also requires investment for renovation and improvement. It already maximises the existing space and frequently has to turn providers away who would otherwise operate locally if adjacent space in the hospital building was available. There have been unfulfilled assurances from Devon ICB about preserving some parking on the hospital site to enable an expansion of the health centre. This makes either retaining the hospital within the NHS or transferring it into community ownership even more important—allowing the building to host local healthcare, district nursing, a care agency, and community wellbeing projects, while GP services remain based at the health centre. Local residents, the GP practice, and community groups could take responsibility for the hospital if given the necessary time, access, and support. This would protect the building for NHS and community purposes and prevent its loss to private development. Watching the building drift toward a quiet sale is regrettably unsurprising. Rural primary care and rural communities have long been treated as peripheral—too small to prioritise, too remote to understand, too insignificant to influence larger strategies. Efficiency has eroded locality, often at the expense of what worked, because it is too subtle or complex to measure quickly and itemise on a spreadsheet.  The government’s 10-year plan for the NHS barely acknowledges rural general practice. Our population faces real difficulty travelling to Exeter or Okehampton for alternative services. The population demographic is heavily skewed to the more elderly with increasingly complex health needs, with spasmodic and limited public transport accessing care is a problem. The system continues to pursue larger hubs, larger networks, and administrative geographies that do not fit. Yet all practical evidence points the other way: small communities function well. We support one another, we adapt, and we deliver forms of care no distant “neighbourhood model” can replicate. The hospital has stood for more than a century, shaped by the same landscape that shaped the town. Conan Doyle wrote of Dartmoor that “The longer one stays here the more the spirit of the moor sinks into one’s soul.” It has sunk into this building too—into its granite walls, into its purpose, and the generations it has served. Bureaucracy may miss what is obvious to those who live here: this building is not surplus; it is an anchor. If it is lost, it will be because the system has forgotten what community healthcare looks like.

Faye Cunningham died aged 27 after years of symptoms were repeatedly dismissed, mislabelled and not properly investigated. Abnormal results, safeguarding concerns and warning signs were missed across multiple services. Her death was preventable. Faye’s Law would help protect vulnerable patients, reduce diagnostic errors, and ensure people are treated based on evidence — not assumptions. No family should have to discover too late that a full medical history was never properly considered. Disclaimer This campaign reflects the lived experience and understanding of Faye’s family, based on available medical records and evidence. It highlights systemic issues and calls for policy reform in the public interest. It does not assign blame to individual clinicians.

Cleft is for life – and so are the complex dental issues that often come with it. Yet people born with a cleft lip and/or palate are disproportionately unable to access the dental care they need. In some cases, they are even explicitly denied treatment because of their cleft.  Being born with a cleft significantly increases the likelihood of dental problems. Children with a cleft are around one-third more likely to have missing teeth, decay or fillings, and adults are around one-quarter more likely compared to the general population.  Despite this, CLAPA’s survey shows:  • People with a cleft are twice as likely to have issues accessing dental care.  • 42% have experienced inadequate care due to lack of training.  • 38% cannot afford treatment linked to their cleft. • Over 7% have been explicitly denied treatment because of their cleft.  This is unacceptable.

NHS dentistry is at breaking point. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care and ‘dental deserts’ are leaving so many without access to critical treatment, all while costs keep going up. Hundreds of desperate people in Bristol - including pensioners and pregnant women - recently queued for hours just for a chance to see an NHS dentist because they had no other way of accessing basic oral health checks. That’s not good enough. A decade of cuts has left a £1.5 billion funding gap, with current funding only enough for half the population to get an NHS dentist. While the Government has committed to reform, it must be backed up by real investment. With NHS dentistry, you get what you pay for. It is essential healthcare. Fix it now!

10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison everyone, especially our children, and millions of these cars remain on our roads today. NOx inflames lungs, exacerbates asthma and globally causes 20% of all childhood asthma cases. Governments in Germany and the USA have taken action and made the car manufacturers pay billions to clean up the air they polluted, and have sent people responsible to prison. But in the UK, car manufacturers have never been held to account.  The excess NOx emissions from diesel vehicles have been responsible for a staggering 30,000 cases of asthma in children and a £96 billion cost to the economy between 2009 and 2024 in the UK. Most of these cars are still being driven on our roads, polluting neighbourhoods and lungs, and it is time to take action.