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Patients will today be promised six new rights to NHS treatment as the Government attempts to push through a new raft of public service reforms in the run-up to the forthcoming general election.

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Colin Ross is much better now he’s completed his first course of the drug Revlimid. As Dr Kevin Boyd, his specialist at the Royal Marsden hospital predicted, the drug is having a dramatic effect on Ross’s cancer, multiple myeloma. His paraprotein levels – which indicate the rate of spread of the disease – have come down from 67 to five, which his partner, Wendy Forbes-Newbigin, calls “little short of a miracle”.

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Some popular tests for food allergies are a waste of time and money and could even end up damaging the health of those who undergo them, according to Which?.

Four researchers took “alternative” tests ranging in price from £48 to £275. The tests routinely failed to detect a severe peanut allergy in one researcher and an intolerance to lactose in another but suggested a total of 183 intolerances. Medical tests confirmed the correct diagnoses.

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Companies that offer to diagnose food allergies may be putting people’s health at risk by giving unreliable results, claims Which?, the consumer group.

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