All news on the topic: NHS

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Doctors' strike 'could drag on for a year if Government refuses to budge'
Around 60,000 junior doctors walked out yesterday and will not return until 7am at Saturday, making it the most disruptive strike in NHS history
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Smoking age will not rise above 18 as Tories reject official recommendation
Smokers will be encouraged to switch their fags for free vapes as part of a new government scheme, but health experts say the plans don't go 'far enough'
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Thousands of junior doctors walk out as 350,000 appointments face cancellation
Around 50,000 doctors are staging pickets outside hospitals across England in a strike over pay, and have told how they are using food banks and borrowing money to pay rent
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Dad given weeks to live survives two years after wife gives him illegal drugs
Neil Lanciano, 46, was given just a few weeks to live when he was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2020 and wife Hayley "felt compelled" to buy him illegal cannabis oil to ease his suffering
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NHS doctor says conditions are so bad he has to sit on a bin to work
George Dovey, a 28-year-old doctor picketing outside St Thomas' Hospital this morning, said working conditions "have got harder" and he "keeps getting less resources"
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British woman's botched surgery left her with 'rotting flesh' and unplanned BBL
Michelle Heath appeared on This Morning to warn others about the dangers of flying to Turkey for cosmetic procedures
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Dad set to lose all his fingers and toes after Strep A virus turned into sepsis
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. James Wood contracted sepsis after a case of Strep A before being rushed to hospital when his skin turned yellow, with doctors labelling him one of the "poorliest patients in the country"
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Full list of hospital trusts where junior doctors are striking in huge walkout
Doctors are mounting picket lines outside hospitals from 7am today until Saturday morning in the longest stoppage of the wave of unrest, which has seen other NHS workers take action since last year
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Junior doctor details patients 'lined up in corridor' in NHS frontline account
Dr Mike Greenhalgh, trauma and orthopaedic surgery registrar, reveals the strain our medics are under - and says he is going on strike because 'enough is enough'
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Tories pinpoint when Rishi Sunak has best chance of winning General Election
The floundering PM reportedly hopes that breaking with the convention of going to the polls in the spring will give him more time to turn around a gaping Labour lead.
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Junior doctors on £14-an-hour as truth of poor pay is revealed amid Tory silence
One of the biggest strikes by medics starts today, with warnings of cancelled appointments and ­operations, as staff battle for better pay
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'Expecting doctors to work on the cheap is a Tory disease we must eradicate'
Responsibility for the four-day strike starting in England today rests with this penny-pinching, incompetent and unnecessarily confrontational Government
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Varicose veins symptoms plus the hidden problems that could lie behind them
The common complaint is rarely a cause for concern, but if they're troubling you there are plenty of options to improve the condition
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Woman left with slurred speech and forced to quit job after being bitten by tick
Christine Sinclair contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite and has been left struggling to speak, leading her to quit her job as a call handler for a holiday firm
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'Ambulance services collapsing after years of neglect is symbol of UK decline'
Delays are forcing one in three patients to give up and get themselves to hospital in taxis, buses and on trains, according to a new survey, symbolising a wider national decline
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NHS horror as patients forced to get BUS or drive while waiting for an ambulance
A shock poll has found one in three people needing emergency care have now driven, taken taxis, trains or even buses as desperate patients find their own way to hospital
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NHS strikes 'will cause unparalleled disruption' but Steve Barclay doubles down
Floundering Health Secretary Steve Barclay is under pressure to resolve the dispute, with the British Medical Association (BMA) saying a 'credible offer' would end plans for a strike starting on Tuesday
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Woman suffering awful 'period pain' left temporarily paralysed by real illness
Annie-Josephine Kearslake from Glossop, was just 12 when she began suffering from extreme pain, however despite years of visiting doctors she was repeatedly told the agonising feeling was down to irritable bowel syndrome or her period
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Tory Steve Barclay faces questions over meeting with nightclub owners
The Health Secretary met with representatives of Ministry of Sound twice in November, while Nurses were seeking negotiations to avoid strike action. His department refuses to explain what was discussed at the meetings
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'My sleep apnoea was cured by a 50p-sized implant - now I'm energised and alert'
Matthias Winker was crippled with daytime fatigue and poor concentration due to his heavy snoring. He tells Pat Hagan how his life has been transformed by a box the size of a 50p
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Dad unable to sit down for eight years after suffering from mystery bloating
Glyn Salmon, 63, from Greasby, hasn't been able to sit down comfortable for nearly a decade after being diagnosed with cancer and suffering with bowel polyps
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Gaming addiction warning signs and how best to combat it
It's no secret the younger generation are more glued to their screens than ever these days - but how much is too much? And when does it become a problem? We spoke to the experts to find out more.
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'Health Secretary is putting lives at risk by refusing to hold urgent talks'
Steve Barclay should be doing everything he can to avoid this calamity but so far he has refused to resume negotiations with the British Medical Association
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Patients could be put at 'catastrophic risk' by upcoming doctors' strike
Up to half the junior doctors in England could to be absent for four days from Tuesday, with a quarter of a million appointments expected to be axed
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Nurse says 'first my daughter then my husband died because of Tory NHS cuts'
Michelle Campbell-Cairns said the Tory government's cuts to the NHS have robbed her of her only child Nadejah, who was refused cancer treatment, and husband Greg who died on a trolley in A&E