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The long-awaited NHS workforce plan is likely to come under scrutiny when it is published at midday on Friday, with the Tories having only committed funding for the first five years

Senior NHS doctors have downed tools today in a 48-hour strike following a bitter dispute over pay, as the British Medical Association reveals consultants have had a 35 percent real-terms loss of income since 2008/09

The Government is expected to announce a doubling of medical school places for doctors, with a pledge to train tens of thousands of new nurses and midwives, more trainee GPs and dentists

Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting urged Rishi Sunak to come clean after he wrongly claimed at Prime Minister's Questions that 'we are reducing waiting lists'

Bereaved relatives called on the Metropolitan Police to prosecute those who boozed at the lockdown-busting held in December when socialising indoors was banned in London

NHS England issued a statement asking people to check on elderly friends and relatives and warning people with conditions such as asthma are at increased risk

Good Morning Britain hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley were forced to stop an interview half-way through on Wednesday due to a technical blunder

Patients face huge disruption as medics in the British Medical Association begin a 72-hour walkout in their bitter dispute with the Government over pay

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting is releasing a new book at the end of June - Pride month - and in it he shares his experiences of coming out only after he started at Cambridge University

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'

In the exclusive first extracts of his book One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry-Up, Labour rising star Wes Streeting tells how overcoming challenges of a deprived council estate has shaped his politics today

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

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

Health Secretary Steve Barclay admitted that some of the original facilities will not be completed by the end of the decade as focus is shifting to five hospitals deemed 'not safe to operate beyond 2030'

The Mirror can reveal the Home Secretary's special adviser insisted she had not been done for speeding when contacted by this newspaper six weeks ago

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting claimed Nestle is "not serious" after it claimed its KitKat cereal is "nutritious", as he outlined plans to help people make healthy choices

Keir Starmer is poised to set out “serious, deep, long-term changes” that also aim to slash cancer deaths and improve mental health treatment - and make the NHS "fit for the future"

Labour's Keir Starmer will pledge to end record delays in accident and emergency departments as he unveils plans to overhaul the health service on Monday

The Shadow Health Secretary added he was lucky he survived his own scare after kidney cancer was picked up by chance, aged 38

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting described the latest Tory failure as another 'broken promise', adding: 'So much for Rishi Sunak's relaunch.'

Cabinet minister Lucy Frazer claimed the PM is "starting to gain the trust of the British public" despite losing more than 1,000 council seats across England in Thursday's local elections

Voter ID rules introduced by the Tories meant thousands were turned away at polling stations. Officials in Maidstone in Kent said 137 people arrived without acceptable photo ID

By 7.30pm on Friday the Tories had taken a battering, losing more than 1,000 seats and control of 40 councils as a delighted Keir Starmer claimed Labour are on track to win a majority at the next General Election

Last year 185,664 days were lost to stress out of just over a million sick days in all, 8% more than 2021. That is equal to a daily average of almost 3,000 medics calling in ill

In a stark statement, the Labour frontbencher said the health service is 'still salvageable' as he vowed his party could 'turn the situation around' in its first term if it was in government