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Exclusive: Healthy Start scheme began switch away from paper coupons to digital system in 2021Struggling parents are having to wait more than a year for vouchers to buy healthy food for their children after the relaunch of an NHS scheme was plagued by …
Downing Street spokesperson also says inquiry into former chancellor’s affairs to be ‘conducted swiftly’There are two urgent questions in the Commons later. At 12.30pm Caroline Lucas (Green) is asking one about the child asylum seekers who have gone mi…
Archbishops of Canterbury and York say ‘national care covenant’ needed with stronger role for stateEngland’s most senior church leaders want tax rises to fund a new NHS-style universal social care system that could cost an extra £15bn a year.In a chall…
Unite leader said joint action from nurses and ambulance staff on 6 February would be ‘very bad day for the NHS’Health union leaders have urged Rishi Sunak to resolve the deepening NHS pay dispute in the next two weeks to stop the biggest strike in the…
Labour MP asks whether Zahawi statement in the summer was untrue, with Cabinet Office minister saying he does not know the answerNadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chair, has welcomed the decision by Rishi Sunak to ask the No 10 ethics adviser to in…
Exclusive: NHS England data show 4.6m or so women still unscreened or behind with tests, for disease diagnosed in 3,200 annually in UKRecord numbers of women are not being screened for cervical cancer, official figures show, as a leading charity urged …
Union makes demand as health service in England prepares to contend with latest stoppage by ambulance staffJeremy Hunt has been urged to release new money to end the wave of strikes disrupting NHS services or risk the dispute dragging on for months.The…
Party to switch focus from economy after polling shows voters in southern Conservative seats put health service as No 1 issueA “blue wall” offensive focusing on the NHS is being plotted by the Liberal Democrats this weekend, amid mounting evidence that…
Amanda Pritchard says ongoing action over pay is having impact but parties are trying to resolve disputeRepeated strikes by health staff are making workloads “more challenging”, the chief executive of NHS England has said.Amanda Pritchard said the ongo…
Radical reforms needed to tackle waiting times, says former health secretary Patients should be charged for GP appointments and A&E visits, Sajid Javid has said, as he called the present model of the NHS “unsustainable”.The former health secretary …