All news on the topic: NHS

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'Sunak's maths talk in first major speech of 2023 is strange and doesn't add up'
Keir Mudie says Rishi Sunak's idea to make pupils study extra maths at school could have been a way for the Prime Minister to distract from the other bits of his first major speech of the New Year
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Doctor who helped launch his 'beloved' NHS in 1948 shedding tears over shambles
Professor Harold Ellis says that bed-cutting by the Tories is partly to blame for the current crisis which is overwhelming his 'beloved' NHS and leaving hospitals unable to cope
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'Golden goodbyes' for sacked ministers could fund 500,000 breakfast club places
Labour's analysis suggests the eye-watering £720,000 potential bill for severance payments could pay for 4,500 free TV licenses for pensioners
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British officials blew £7k hiring celebrity lookalikes for Queen's birthday bash
The British Embassy bash in Sweden – which took place as the cost of living crisis gripped the UK – featured ‘stars’ such as David Bowie and Baby Spice
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Auto border kiosks trialled by Home Office 'could be fooled with tinted glasses'
The Government is spending £500,000 testing 'Biometric self-enrolment kiosks' for airports and border crossings - but a University testing the machines has warned similar checkpoints could be fooled with tinted glasses
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'I want to live in a country that cares - but Sunak cares about wrong things'
Mirror columnist Saira Khan says PM Rishi Sunak's pledge to reduce NHS waiting times is encouraging - but social care, childcare and mental health services were absent from his top priorities
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Baby twins have lived in 5 countries and flown 31,000 miles - before turning one
Mum Karen Edwards, 38, and dad Shaun Bayes, 37, quit the rat race to travel and teach their children about the world first-hand. Their eight-year-old daughter has been to 53 countries on six continents
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NHS in crisis - the Brits who have died while waiting hours for ambulances
Paul Westerman, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, became one of the latest people to die in the UK following long waits for ambulances
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PM warned emergency summit won't ease NHS pressure after 'years of inaction'
The Prime Minister is holding rare weekend talks with health leaders - after senior medics said the health service was on a knife edge with many A&E units struggling to keep up with demand and trusts and ambulance services declaring critical incidents
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Boris Johnson admitted 'the race thing's difficult for me', report chair claims
Race commission chairman Lord Sewell claims the former Prime Minister found it difficult to respond to his report because he had a "bad track record" on statements on race - but a spokesman for Mr Johnson said there had been a "misunderstanding"
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Do you think every child should study maths until they are 18?
The PM announced his vision during his first speech of 2023, where he said that learning maths will leave students “better equipped for the jobs of the future”.
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GP busts common weight-loss myths - including avoiding carbs
Dr Sameer Sanghvi sifts fact from fiction when it comes to losing weight to keep you on the right track for 2023. Below, he busts four common myths around weight loss.
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Hospitals 'missed opportunities' before four-year-old girl died of sepsis
Eva Hayden's parents want lessons to be learned after Ormskirk General Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital apologised for failings in the four-year-old's treatment
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'Great divide in Britain has never been greater after 13 years of elitist rule'
Brian Reade says that under the Tories, we have witnessed Britain stagnate economically and intellectually, becoming insular, divided and broken - and the divide in our country is now huge
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Rishi Sunak's bid to summon health leaders on NHS crisis 'too little, too late'
The Prime Minister will stage an 'NHS Recovery Forum' with health leaders and experts - but critics slammed the move saying 'patients deserve more than a talking shop'
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'Current state of the NHS leaves me sick to my stomach - it's terrifying'
In this week's column Val, the mum of Mirror columnist and football legend Robbie Savage, says telling people to stay away from A&E because it’s full of flu and Covid patients leads to deaths
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Dad's final words to mum-of-3 fiancée, 36, who died after 11-hour ambulance wait
Grief-stricken James Jackman is begging the government to 'act fast' and fix the NHS after his fiancée Hannah Marie died having waited 11 hours for an ambulance
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Unite ambulance workers announce new January strike date in pay dispute
Ambulance workers at Unite union have announced a strike date at the end of January - with walkouts by paramedics and 999 call handlers already planning to walk out at two other unions
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Baby's brain tumour detected after mum notices extraordinary growth on her head
Baby Molly is now in the clear after a huge tumour was removed from her brain - but doctors say she was potentially days away from it being her last
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Brits putting their health at risk by not having a hearing test, charity says
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) says only 6% of people in the UK who have not been diagnosed with hearing loss had a hearing test last year, compared with 46% who took an eye test
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Covid UK cases reach highest level since summer as infections DOUBLE in a month
Figures from the festive season show the number of people with Covid in the UK over Christmas was at about three million; more than double than at the start of December
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Great-gran taken to A&E on bin lid as she 'wasn't eligible' for ambulance
After calling for an ambulance, Pamela Rolfe's family were astonished to be told 'due to the current crisis at the moment she doesn't qualify for an ambulance'
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Former Royal Marine compares 'broken' A&E to war zone as he lashes out at Tories
Former Royal Marine, Brian McGarry, has said that he needs "some support from the country" he spent years serving, as he has experienced first-hand the current "broken" NHS system
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Rishi Sunak refuses to rule out NHS staff getting sacked in his strike crackdown
PM Rishi Sunak swerved questions on what his 'minimum service levels' for striking staff will mean in the health service - including if workers could be sacked
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Junior doctors announce plan for 72-hour strike if major vote passes
Up to 45,000 junior doctors in England will down tools in March for 72 hours if a major strike ballot passes, the British Medical Association has announced today