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Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members will begin voting on May 23 for further strike action up to Christmas after the union's six-month mandate expired at the beginning of the month

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

Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft controlled Medacs Healthcare when it was handed 10 NHS deals worth up to £53million between September 2021 and December 2022, contract notices have revealed

A report by the National Pharmacy Association predicts 3,000, almost one in four, could shut by next year following years of funding cuts

Hannah Deacon helped change the law when she secured cannabis prescription for her severely ill son Alfie Dingley. But now, a "cowboy" CBD firm has been using her name to flog its product

Caroline McShane was overjoyed after giving birth to her second daughter in 2010. But seven months later, she realised something wasn't right – and it steadily got worse

One in four people have hypertension - or high blood pressure - but almost one-third of patients do not even know they have it, which is why it's vital to know what signs to look out for

Around half of us Brits put off contacting a GP for up to six months after noticing tell-tale signs that something isn't right - but the sooner we act, the better

Danielle Connor, 33, first complained of a sore back in January when doctors dismissed it as indigestion but was later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told she had weeks to live

Campaigners are urging people to curb their salt tooth to safeguard their health and reminding people that excessive salt can significantly increase the risk of heart attack and stroke

Former EastEnders actress Samantha Womack has backed the NHS nurse's demands for higher pay and admits she would have delayed her cancer treatment for strikes

The PM has become notorious for chucking promises made to voters as he has whacked up taxes, failed to cut record hospital waiting lists and ditched a Brexit pledge to scrap EU laws

Health expert Dr Michael Mosley has shared his clever tips that could help you get to sleep faster - including one simple breathing exercise and keeping your body cool

University College London's Professor Sir Michael Marmot said the UK is 'on track to make child poverty worse' - and said the Government could spend more on children in their early year but refused to do so, blaming high taxes

A hospital worker was distracted by the action between Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain while trying to take blood from a 19-year-old woman who had recently had a seizure

Patients often don't realise they have the potentially life-threatening illness until it's picked up by an unrelated medical test

Patients in England attending major A&E departments for treatment were seen within four hours in fewer than two thirds of cases and people can check how their local trust compares

Rebecca McManus says her smartwatch's heart rate alert feature may have saved her life after she was taken to hospital where doctors identified two pulmonary embolisms

Lara Heaney's big day turned to tragedy when her father informed her that her mum had sadly passed away, just hours before the ceremony was set to start

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'

Once again, people with no lived experience of disability have decided the solution is really easy - they are focussing on the wrong thing

Experts believe an unforeseen post-Covid plunge in vaccine uptake could be to blame for the unwelcome rise in Dickensian ailments such as syphilis and tuberculosis

Kelly hasn't felt she can enjoy her pregnancy as stark statistics show Black women are almost four times more likely to die from childbirth, alongside other higher risk factors

Nicola Kelleher's partner Bradley Benjamin has a hereditary kidney disease which has seen him suffer on dialysis for years - and they didn't want the same outcome for their child