All news on the topic: NHS

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Real-life inspiration behind Best Interests - BBC's new tear-jerking drama
Starring Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan, Best Interests tells the story of two parents fighting to keep their daughter alive - but is it a true story? Here we take a look at the real-life inspiration behind the new show
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'Poverty divide accessing joint replacement surgery still exists'
Dr Miriam Stoppard addresses the socio-economic factors and inequalities at play between the most and least affluent areas when it comes to having much-needed hip and knee replacements
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Five health red flags no man should ever ignore
Seeing a doctor promptly when signs of serious illness arise makes all the difference to survival rates, yet Punteha van Terheyden finds many men are afraid to seek help
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Your thunderstorm headache is actually backed by science - but you can treat it
If you often find yourself getting headaches when a thunderstorm is brewing, there's a scientific reason why - and it's all to do with how pressure impacts your nerves
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What to look for in a sunscreen and when to reapply during the heatwave
Most of us don't use enough sun lotion, says the NHS, but protecting both yourself and your family from harmful rays is vital
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'Boris Johnson is not the problem - it's the people who still say they like him'
Boris Johnson has been held to account for his sins, says Fleet Street Fox. But it's the people who can't see the damage he's done that are the problem
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Inside the harrowing reality of 999 ambulance crews
Mirror joins two West Midlands paramedics for 11-hour shift - and witnesses a service at breaking point, with one of the team warning that patients are 'at ever increasing risk of harm'
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'The warring Conservative party is an embarrassment Britain simply can't afford'
Lightweight Rishi Sunak should call a general election immediately - rather than cowardly try to cling on by contesting three by-elections triggered by Boris Johnson's exit
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Seven silent cancer symptoms you need to know about - and should never ignore
Cancer symptoms aren't always obvious - here Dr Alexandra Oliver, associate clinical director at Bupa Health Clinics, explains seven 'silent' symptoms to look out for
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Wes Streeting: 'I won't apologise for being ambitious - but I'm loyal'
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells the Mirror: 'If Rishi had had a background that was more like mine... he wouldn't have taken 20 quid off people in Universal Credit every week'
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Labour's Wes Streeting 'Cancer stories hit me differently now'
The Labour Shadow Health Secretary's searingly honest book, One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, charts his journey from the East End to Cambridge University and Westminster
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'No hip-op luck for me - but I've been inspired by story of brave Isla Grist'
Val Savage has been left hanging in her wait for surgery after it was cancelled again - but a gutsy young girl's fight reminded her to keep battling on
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'Phillip Schofield saga put into perspective by toxic issues of life in Britain'
Talk of toxicity on This Morning is dwarfed by real problems such as people going hungry and the war in Ukraine
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"Doctors missed my young daughter's cancer - they thought it was constipation"
NHS worker Claire Formby claims her daughter Ella was checked over three times before she was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma and is now having tough chemotherapy aged just three
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Rishi Sunak blasted over delay to social care costs cap as 2025 date in doubt
The Prime Minister cast fresh doubt over the already-delayed October 2025 date for introducing a financial cap which would mean no-one paid more than £86,000 for care
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Eight horrific signs and symptoms of the 'medieval' infection on the rise in UK
As well as causing problems with your skin, brain and organs, the gruesome infection can be deadly if left untreated and claimed millions of lives in medieval times
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Rishi Sunak shrugs blame for relying on foreign nurses to fill NHS jobs
The PM is facing criticism over his government’s failure to train enough doctors and nurses and Ghana has warned that it is facing a 'brain drain' as health workers leave for jobs overseas
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'My contraceptive pill nearly killed me at 25 - we need tougher screening tests'
Like many women, Holly McComish was prescribed the contraceptive pill over the phone by her GP. Three months later, she collapsed and suffered a miniature stroke
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Rishi Sunak to meet boss of 'scary' US tech firm that wants jumbo NHS contract
The PM is to attend a baseball game in Washington DC with Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir which has been described as the 'scariest' of the American tech giants
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Senior doctors could strike for two days next month after junior medics' walkout
If the strikes go ahead, consultants will provide Christmas Day cover, meaning they will continue to provide all emergency services but routine services will need to be paused
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Dis Life: 'Genocidal quantities died of Covid - two-thirds of them Disabled'
At the beginning of the pandemic, we wondered whether the vulnerability people felt would translate into better empathy for Disabled people. But it didn’t
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Rob Burrow's wife says 'government will have blood on its hands'
Rugby legend Rob Burrow's wife Lindsey says delays in funding has left them angry and frustrated, especially after seeing the speed of Covid vaccine research
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Side effects and 'damaging' health concerns of new NHS weight loss jab
Medics have outlined the common side effects and potentially damaging health risks of the new weight loss drug, known as Wegovy, available to patients on the NHS
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'My 7-year eating disorder started when GP said I wasn't underweight enough'
Susie Ward, now 19, says her eating disorder started when she was 11 and although she has made a full recovery she's hoping her campaign will help medical professionals take others like her seriously
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8 symptoms of medieval disease that can kill as cases rocket across UK
Data from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows there were more than 1,000 new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) every day in the country and these include syphilis