Oxford News
Oxford hospitals charge more for parking
Oxford hospitals have announced steep increases in parking charges from the beginning of July. One hour goes up from the present £1 to £1.40 and a three-hour stay goes up from £3 to...
Vienna News
Vienna launches mobile hospice care for kids
Vienna has launched a mobile service to look after severely ill children in their homes.
There about 800 young people in the Vienna area with life-threatening illnesses, about 120 of whom die each...
Dublin News
Dublin City Council (DCC) is appealing to businesses in the city centre to sign up to a public private partnership scheme that would allow members of the public to use their toilets.
Dublin busines...
Barcelona News
Catalonia to pay immigrants’ health costs
The Catalonian government has said that it will pay primary healthcare costs for immigrants for up to a year even though they do not have all the required residency papers. However they must have been...
Madrid News
Spain's illegal immigrants to pay for health
Immigrants in Spain without legal documents will have to pay for health care from Saturday 1 September. This includes both cancer and HIV treatment.
Illegal immigrants who have managed to acquire a...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen hopes that only four per cent of its inhabitants will be smokers in 2025 instead of the 21 per cent who smoke at present.
The city is planning free courses to encourage people to stop sm...
Paris News
Non-smokers in France have lost another attempt to ban smoking on café terraces. A Paris appeal court has rejected a case by Droits des Non-fumeurs against a lower court ruling that affectively...
Jersey News
Jersey continues stop smoking efforts
Shocking images of diseased throats, lungs, teeth and skin are set to appear on packets of cigarettes in Jersey in an effort by the island
Paris News
PARIS LAUNCHES FAMILY PLANNING APP FOR STUDENTS
Paris authorities have distributed a free interactive smartphone family planning app for school and college students. Carte XY allows students via their mobiles to be prescribed the contraceptive pill...
Paris News
The lack of doctors in some areas of Paris has reached crisis point, says the mayor
Paris News
Parisians are more likely to be affected by HIV, tuberculosis, childhood obesity, lung cancer, breast cancer and infant mortality than anywhere else in France. The regional health authority, ARS, has...
Madrid News
Madrid has lowest number of smoking inspectors in Spain
City authorities in Madrid have assigned the fewest number of inspectors in Spain to police the new smoking ban, which came into force on 2 January prohibiting smoking in all enclosed public spaces in...
Jersey News
Health services in Jersey Channel Islands set for review
Consultants from the UK have launched a major review into the Jersey
Madrid News
Madrid flouts new abortion law
Madrid has been named as one of the two worst areas in Spain for violating the principles of the new abortion law
