It was only after her sister googled the symptoms that Ms Thomas was able to return to her surgery and ask to be tested for endometriosis.
Lucille Thirlby, assistant general secretary of the FDA union, also warned that the cuts "will impact the delivery of the government's own agenda"."Civil servants are desperate for reform and refocusing the work of the Cabinet Office may be a good place to start," she told the BBC.
"However – as we are seeing with the reorganisation of NHS England – there is a difference between reforming and cutting. The success of any reforms will depend on whether the scale of cuts undermine the reform."She urged ministers to "be honest about what the government will stop doing as a result of these cuts".to keep up with the inner workings of Westminster and beyond.
Known in Ghana as the Maths Queen, Dr Angela Tabiri is the first African to win The Big Internet Math Off competition - quite an achievement for someone who had not initially planned to study mathematics.The 35-year-old Ghanaian "finds joy in solving puzzles and mathematical questions" and hopes her 2024 win will open up the world of mathematics to other African women - who have traditionally been discouraged from taking the subject.
Sixteen mathematicians were invited to compete for the tongue-in-cheek title of "the world's most interesting mathematician" - a public vote event started in 2018 by The Aperiodical blog.
The first winner was Dr Nira Chamberlain, the first black mathematician to be included in the British reference book Who's Who and a vice-president of the professional body, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications."You think, 'could it happen again?' They know when something's up, it just sort of took the fun out of it for a while," he said.
Three horses were killed out of 270 road incidents involving horses in the West Midlands in 2023, figures from the British Horse Society (BHS) revealed.Eighty-one took place in Staffordshire, 61 in Shropshire and 59 in Warwickshire, the BHS said.
There were 55 in Worcestershire, nine in the West Midlands and five in Herefordshire.The organisation said it feared a large number of drivers might still be unaware of