All news on the topic: NHS

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Sunderland rioters hurl rocks at Filipino NHS nurses heading to work for emergency coverage
The Filipino NHS workers were targeted by rioters in Sunderland, leaving them "terrified" as they headed to work in taxis to provide emergency cover amid violence breaking out
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GPs vote to take collective action for first time in 60 years
GPs will choose from a series of options, including limiting the number of daily patients they see to 25 and refusing to share patient data, in opposition to a contract they have been offered.
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Junior doctors offered 22% pay rise in deal to end strike action
The government and the BMA trade union have struck an improved pay deal for junior doctors in England worth 22% on average over two years.
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Captain Tom’s daughter’s company to be STRUCK OFF after profiting from Covid hero’s scandal-hit charity
Captain Tom’s daughter’s company is set to be struck off after making thousands of pounds from the Covid hero’s charity.
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BT fined more than £17m over ‘catastrophic’ 999 call failure
System missed 14,000 emergency calls after technical faults caused nearly 11 hours of disruption last summer
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Emergency Cobra meeting held as NHS and airports hit by global IT outage
An emergency Cobra meeting has been held as Government issues respond to the global IT outage after major disruption has hit to airlines, railways and GP surgeries
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Rachel Reeves vows to fix the economy so families everywhere are better off
In her first speech as Chancellor, Rachel Reeves will warn that £58billion extra could have been pumped into NHS and schools last year if the Tories had achieved growth
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The NHS faces a potential staff exodus, with one in five planning to quit if the Tories are re-elected
Labour’s Wes Streeting appealed to hospital staff to ’stay and help Labour rebuild the NHS’ as a poll found as many as 22% could leave if Rishi Sunak sneaks back in
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E.coli outbreak: One person dies and 275 infected from supermarket sandwiches
One person has died in England after 275 were infected with bacteria from supermarket sandwiches, according to the UK Health Security Agency.
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PPE worth £1.4bn from a single Covid deal destroyed or written off
UK government deal struck at height of pandemic described as ‘colossal misuse of public funds’
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Royal Surrey hospital declares critical incident following system failure affecting cancer units
A system failure at Royal Surrey Hospital has seen appointments cancelled as the centre declared a critical incident - which is impacting patients at the cancer centre
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Nurses have declared a ’national emergency’ as NHS patients are being treated in ’storage cupboards and car parks’
Patients are receiving cancer diagnoses in public areas, and may have to undergo intimate examinations there too, the Royal College of Nursing says.
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UK infected blood scandal worsened by ‘chilling’ cover-up, inquiry finds
Thousands of deaths could have been avoided, final report on infection of thousands with HIV or hepatitis C concludes
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’I am truly sorry’: Sunak apologizes for infected blood scandal and its ’chilling’ cover-up
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologised to the victims of the infected blood scandal and their families, saying "on behalf of this and every government stretching back to the 1970s, I am truly sorry".
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Infected blood scandal: Inquiry to recommend prosecution of those responsible
Report from official inquiry due to present findings in what has been described as biggest treatment disaster in history of NHS
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NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards
Transgender women should not be put on single-sex female NHS wards, the government is proposing.
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Tory rebels devise 100-day ’policy blitz’ in event of party’s local election setback
Worried MPs have concocted five-point plan of quick measures aimed at showing that the party cares about public’s priorities
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NHS violates mixed-sex wards regulations 44,000 times in a year, risking patient humiliation and assault
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said patients were left feeling humiliated and at risk, adding: ‘The use of mixed sex wards has gone through the roof under the Tories’
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‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal
Documents examined by inquiry show officials knew people were being given infected blood products, but sanctioned their use
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Conservative MP Dan Poulter has defected to Labour, citing his belief that the Tories have become a "nationalist party of the right
The mental health doctor, who was elected as a Tory MP in 2010, said the Conservatives had become a “nationalist party of the right”, and no longer prioritised the NHS
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Leaked NHS figures unveil that 15,000 individuals died while under the care of mental health trusts in a single year
NHS figures leaked by whistleblower suggest more than 15,000 patients died in care of community mental health services in just one year – with desperate families forced to ‘beg’ for treatment from overstretched medical teams
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Figures reveal that the number of individuals signed off work due to long-term sickness has reached a record high of 2.8 million
The number of people signed off work through long-term sickness has hit a record of more than 2.8million, figures show.
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More than 2,000 hospital buildings predate NHS itself - with sewage leaks and broken lifts
At some NHS trusts two thirds of all buildings are more than 75 years old, sparking warnings that crumbling and outdated buildings are putting patients at risk
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Massive 40% rise in emergency calls for people ’at risk of freezing to death’
Emergency calls for people at risk of freezing to death have shot up by around 40% in England since 2019, according to new data released with more than half of them elderly