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BMA says consultant pay has declined by 35% since 2008-9Senior doctors in England are to vote on whether to strike amid the continued row over pay in healthcare, as teachers’ unions also plan to hold a ballot for industrial action.The ballot will open …
Ward closures and flooding in dilapidated buildings in Epsom as one of 40 new hospitals pledged remains unbuiltWhere are the Tories’ promised 40-new-hospitals? We cannot afford to wait any morePatients, doctors and nurses are enduring constant ward clo…
BMJ Global Health article calls for halt to ‘development of self-improving artificial general intelligence’ until regulation in placeAI could harm the health of millions and pose an existential threat to humanity, doctors and public health experts have…
Jithender Ballepu says more staff and funding would be needed and has concerns about passing antibiotics over the counterThere is no plaque outside the Bassett Pharmacy in Southampton to indicate this was once run by the prime minister’s mum but there …
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Hospitals chief says action ‘will pile even more pressure’ on already overstretched services and calls for talksAmbulance staff in the south-east of England are to strike over pay for the second time on Tuesday, prompting warnings from hospital bosses …
Exclusive: Prof Kamila Hawthorne says delays and uncertainty mean patients feel ‘helpless and forgotten’Patients are developing cancers and enduring so much pain that they cannot climb stairs because of the 7.2 million-strong waiting list for NHS scans…
Two-year study by Nuffield Trust and LSE says successive governments failed to make social care a priorityDistress and heartbreak for millions could have been avoided if the government had not missed opportunities to prepare social care for a pandemic,…
‘Mood music is getting better’ but two sides remain some way apart as junior doctors seek 35% pay rise Hopes are rising of a breakthrough in the junior doctors dispute after their leaders held several hours of talks with the health secretary, Steve Bar…
Exclusive: Claimants say government can no longer defend treatment disaster in light of inquiry’s damning interim reportMore than 500 people taking the government to court over the contaminated blood scandal are urging it to concede the case in light o…