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We look at the current levels of the coronavirus and who will be offered a booster jabWith Covid in the UK on the rise once more, we take a look at the current situation and what the plans are for vaccination. Continue reading…
Health secretary made the false claim while trying to defend opposition to junior doctors’ pay demandsSteve Barclay, the health secretary, got it wrong when he claimed in an interview this week that NHS consultants received tax-free pensions, the Depar…
UK’s biggest insurer gained 170,000 health insurance customers in past year as NHS waiting lists hit record highsThe boss of Britain’s biggest insurer, Aviva, has said there are “big opportunities” in expanding private health cover in the UK as the str…
Proposals to ‘streamline’ treatment, which government says are clinically led, would cut number of targets from nine to threeKeir Starmer has accused the government of “moving the goalposts” as the number of NHS cancer waiting time targets is expected …
Ministers launch a consultation on including inserts in boxes that outline the benefits of quitting tobacco Plain packaging, graphic images of lung disease and warnings that smoking causes cancer already adorn cigarette boxes. But now smokers in the UK…
SNP’s Amy Callaghan has cross-party support, and notes 16,000 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed in UK each yearAn MP who survived skin cancer as a teenager is canvassing cross-party support for her campaign to remove VAT from sunscreen products.Amy C…
Exclusive: BMA council chair says medics will have no option but to stage more industrial action until ministers make ‘credible offer’Rishi Sunak’s “increasingly intransigent” and “belligerent” stance on medics’ pay is blocking the path to ending the i…
Strike could push number of appointments cancelled due to NHS industrial action over a millionJunior doctors in England have launched a fifth round of industrial action, with thousands going on strike just days after starting their first NHS jobs.The l…
BMA highlights government’s ‘complete disregard’ for the health service and its patientsConsultants in England will strike for two additional days in September if the government continues to refuse pay talks and fails to present the profession with a c…
Thomas Buberl says firm is responding by investing in UK market as use of private healthcare soarsThe growing crisis facing the NHS presents “quite a few business opportunities” for AXA to expand its private healthcare business, the French insurance gr…