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Calls for a ban as health trusts award ‘insourcing’ contracts worth millions to tackle backlogsSome of the country’s most senior NHS clinicians are earning a lucrative sideline running private firms that offer to cut waiting lists at their own hospital…
UK’s biggest nursing union prompts alarm among senior officials by calling on intensive care workers to join walkoutsThe UK’s biggest nursing union is preparing an escalation of its pay dispute with the government that will see members working in emerg…
UK appeal to support rescue efforts raises £50m as self-sufficient polyclinic expected in disaster-struck countryTurkey and Syria earthquake – latest news updatesA field hospital staffed with mostly NHS workers is due to arrive in Turkey this weekend i…
Exclusive: Children as young as three in emergency departments for mental health problems, data obtained by Labour revealsChildren suffering mental health crises spent more than 900,000 hours in A&E in England last year seeking urgent and potential…
This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story hereRishi Sunak has recorded a TV interview this morning, and he has had to explain that, unlike his party’s new deputy chairman, he is not in favour of the death penalty. The full clip has…
National Audit Office praises expansion of care but says soaring demand means delays will persistMillions of people in England with mental ill-health are not seeking NHS help, and many who get it face long delays and a “poor experience”, a report says….
Waiting lists will flatline rather than fall despite being one of PM’s priorities for the year, says IFSNHS waiting lists are unlikely to fall in 2023, and the backlog is unlikely to be significantly tackled until mid-2024 despite being one of Rishi Su…
Lack of mental health placement in England part of chronic shortage of secure accommodation for vulnerable childrenA mother who has seen her suicidal 12-year-old daughter shuttled between placements and then held in a locked and windowless hospital roo…
Rishi Sunak urged to ‘come to the table and negotiate’ after biggest strike day in NHS historyUK politics live – latest news updatesNurses are to continue industrial action on Tuesday after the government was accused of being “on strike” itself during …
GMB’s Rachel Harrison says staff will not be ‘fobbed off’ by PM ‘kicking the can’ into next year’s pay roundA health union leader has described Rishi Sunak as deluded for suggesting NHS staff should abandon their campaign to secure a bigger pay rise th…