All news on the topic: NHS

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'Hard-working' nurse, 65, killed by Covid 'knew he was at risk' due to diabetes
Gareth Morgan Roberts began feeling ill on March 24, 2020, the day after the first lockdown was announced. The 65-year-old 'who never let anyone down' died on April 11
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NHS staff told to work harder as pay talks with Tories branded 'an insult'
Health Secretary Steve Barclay was today accused of insulting NHS staff, who the Tories roundly hailed and applauded for their dedication at the height of Covid
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Plan to move 3,000 hospital patients into care homes branded 'sticking plaster'
Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he 'regretted' patients' experience but blamed a surge of flu in England's hospitals as he unveiled a plan to discharge thousands within weeks
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Cancer patients report this one ‘unbearable’ symptom - as treatment rates boom
Cancer patients often describe an ongoing sense of extreme tiredness that can 'affect you physically, mentally and emotionally' and does not get better with rest
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GP jailed for using Jade Goody death to carry out sex attacks gets 2 life terms
In sentencing Manish Shah at the Old Bailey today, the judge said that the GP remained a "danger to women" as several victims spoke about how his sex attacks have scarred them for life
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DWP leaves disabled people for months without cash under help-to-work scheme
Waiting times for Access to Work grants have skyrocketed - as one employment advisor told the Mirror 'the delays have caused my customers to lose their jobs'
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Premature baby milk used by NHS hospitals recalled over lead contamination fears
Food standards experts say the milk products have been given to a small number of babies at seven hospitals, although the health risk is 'likely to be low'
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'If Rishi Sunak admits he sees a private GP, he knows nothing about the NHS'
Decisions based on theory often collapse on meeting reality, says Fleet Street Fox. If Rishi uses a private GP, then he doesn't know what 40% of public money is for
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NHS strikes go ahead as talks end with no deal despite hopes of one-off payment
An 'angry' Unite rep blasted 'insulting' Health Secretary Steve Barclay for offering no deal after talks lasting an hour - despite Rishi Sunak and Downing Street hinting a cash offer could be on the table
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Woman who was 'housebound' at 29 stone loses weight of an entire other person
Sabrina Lee, who weighed 29 stone at her heaviest, couldn't walk from her bedroom to her living room without getting out of breath during a four year period when she was "practically housebound"
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Should Rishi Sunak admit if he uses a private GP? Have your say
Our Prime Minister has been accused of being 'someone who doesn't use the NHS and doesn't understand the scale of the challenge' in turning the troubled system around. What do YOU think?
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NHS to buy care beds for thousands of patients stuck in hospitals in crisis plan
Health Secretary Steve Barclay will today unveil a emergency winter package to alleviate the intense pressures on emergency departments - but care bosses warned it would not fix the crisis
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'Little ranting Rishi needs to face reality - workers united won't be defeated'
Kevin Maguire argues that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is completely out of touch with ordinary working people as strike action grinds on into the New Year across the UK
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Union chief blasts leaked proposal to 'ban' Border Force workers from strikes
The idea was said to have been one of three put forward by officials in the Business Department in a leaked email. A No10 source denied it had ever been considered by Downing Street
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Rishi Sunak accused of 'misleading public' in TV clash as NHS pay talks kick off
Rishi Sunak appeared to finally open the door to nurses getting more money this year - but a union chief slapped him down for misrepresenting talks 'on almost every level'
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Tories must bring back Boris Johnson or 'die', ally Nadine Dorries declares
The ex-Culture Secretary praised 'rockstar' Boris Johnson - and said the Tories with Rishi Sunak in No10 are 'heading into the long, cold and brutal wasteland of thankless opposition'
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Labour to look at raising legal cigarettes age every year until no one can smoke
Everyone in England would eventually be banned from buying cigarettes under the plan, which was presented to Tory ministers last year - and will be looked at by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting
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Prince Harry to have no role at coronation as King Charles scraps tradition
Tensions have been brewing between Harry and the Royal Family after his Oprah interview, Netflix drama and release of his memoirs, with the Duke of Sussex now set to miss out on his father's big day
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Hospital crisis as '27 ambulances outside A&E and patients treated in corridors'
Medics from Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have urged health bosses to declare a critical incident after pressure increases on the sites
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Keir Starmer unveils private health plan - saying he's 'not privatising the NHS'
Labour's leader said 233,000 more NHS patients could have been seen in nine months through using spare capacity - as he was confronted with his own scrapped pledge
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Rishi Sunak refuses 3 times to say if he has private GP in toe-curling interview
The millionaire Prime Minister claimed it was not 'relevant' and told people to stop 'bandying around' claims 300 are dying a week - as a nurse goes home and cries every night
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Exhausted NHS heroes crying in car parks after losing lives that could be saved
In a harrowing account, junior doctor Andrew Meyerson, 40, said: colleagues were "crying in the car park, devastated and shell-shocked, haunted by the substandard care that they have been forced to deliver"
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'First' symptom of cervical cancer that appears on your back - when to visit GP
The NHS has highlighted the early warning signs of cervical cancer, as around 3,200 women are diagnosed with the devastating disease every year in the UK
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Tory health chief hints at NHS pay rise - but only if staff get more 'efficient'
Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he's ready for 'constructive' talks - but only for 2023/24, and there should be 'productivity and efficiency opportunities' for an NHS on its knees
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Boris Johnson's Olympics plan to get people playing more sport has fallen flat
A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped