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Early beneficiaries of our National Health Service recall their marvel at modern medicine - and how Britain was saved from health poverty by the revolutionary concept

King Charles's list ranges from a grieving mother who turned a tragedy into a charity honouring their legacy, a 106-year-old fundraising through exercise, and those aiding Ukrainian refugees

The Department of Health's legal representative Fiona Scolding KC told the Covid Inquiry that different decisions may have been made with hindsight, as the probe continued its examination of the years leading up the pandemic

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) has just released an advisory statement regarding the air quality throughout upstate and the five boroughs, suggesting that this fog will likely last at least another 24 hours.

In March, 8,549 doctor vacancies in secondary care were reported in England, as data shows 13,400 UK-trained doctors practised abroad in 2020, where they get higher pay or a better work-life balance

The EMIS software, which is used in approximately half of GP surgeries, primary care facilities, dentists and community pharmacies in England, had outages for most of Friday

The Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress heard one doctor had to give a cancer diagnosis in a crowded corridor and that failings are causing 'catastrophic harm'

Mental health specialist Chantal Rose told the Royal College of Nursing’s congress in Brighton she was treating more of her peers than at any stage in her 25-year career

The Shadow Health Secretary added he was lucky he survived his own scare after kidney cancer was picked up by chance, aged 38

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has revealed its members worries about being taken to court because of patient safety amid huge pressure on the struggling NHS

Ahead of Dementia Action Week, the boss of Alzheimer’s Disease International said former prime ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson have failed patients

Last year, 4,231 left the NHS because of the demands of their job – with Royal College of Nursing chief Pat Cullen saying plugging the gaps is taking a heavy personal toll

Sean Sherry spent nine years in the NHS but quit in tears after suffering crippling burnout. It turned out to be a lucrative decision as he now earns the same level in an entry-level tech job

Prime Minister's trip home was an attempt to show he hadn’t always been richer than King Charles III – and gave him something to say about the NHS crisis that was 'really personal'

The Government claims the new technology will end the 8am scramble for appointments but leaves the prospect of them being stuck listening to annoying tunes

A body representing pharmacy chains says the Government's attempts to boost family doctors' practices with chemists has create vacancies elsewhere

Figures for 2022 show someone in Somerset waited about a year and eight months for a test or scan when it should only be two weeks

Nearly 4,000 medics and Armed Forces veterans have been invited to the King's Coronation - Professor Nola Ishmael is furious at the double standards the invitation exposes

Some 66% of adults are overweight or obese – and 90% of diabetics have Type 2, which is linked to unhealthy lifestyles and puts them at risk of heart attacks, strokes and amputations

Smokers will be encouraged to switch their fags for free vapes as part of a new government scheme, but health experts say the plans don't go 'far enough'

The husband of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, who died at the age of 44 from rare complications following her first Covid jab, is part of a group of claimants who have lost relatives

NHS Providers, which represents hospital chief executives, said it will struggle to get enough senior doctors to provide cover straight after a Bank Holiday and during the Easter school break

A series of Freedom of Information requests by the Liberal Democrats has lifted the lid on the scale of cancelled surgeries affecting kids - and the waits they have to suffer

However Health Minister Will Quince revealed the true costs, which were for contracts from April 2020 to December 2021, in a parliamentary question asked by Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner

Labour has hit out at the 'warped' decision to spend an estimated £1.5 million on state-of-the-art phones for Department of Health staff last year, while just £1 million was set aside for new life-saving defibrillators