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Authors say supported mindfulness-based cognitive therapy also cheaper than treatment NHS usually offersPractising mindfulness is much better than taking part in talking therapies at helping people recover from depression, a British study has found.Peo…
Unions, regulators and NHS England all say staff shortages are affecting health of medics and patients“There’s a gap today that no locum filled, so I am carrying both bleeps and doing the work of two people.” That recent tweet, by a children’s doctor, …
Exclusive: workplace plan sent to ministers says deficit will rise rapidly from current 154,000 if current trends continueThe NHS in England needs a massive injection of homegrown doctors, nurses, GPs and dentists to avert a recruitment crisis that cou…
Health service managers in south-west England say new restrictions are needed because of a huge rise in waiting listsNHS managers in south-west England have imposed new rules that could deny autism assessments to thousands of children in a move that pa…
Two-thirds of people who have used social care report bad experiences, as problems of low pay and poor training growDissatisfaction at social care services among those who have had to deal with them has spiralled to “unbelievably distressing” levels, a…
Thinktank warns ‘political short-termism’ over health is exacerbating levels of illness and inequalityGovernments should set aside 10% of health spending for preventive and public measures such as cycle lanes and anti-obesity strategies, a thinktank ha…
British Medical Association accuses government of failing to make ‘credible offer’ to resolve pay disputeUK politics live – latest updatesJunior doctors have intensified their pay dispute with the government by calling a four-day strike that NHS bosses…
Findings reveal level of disruption over three days in July when temperatures reached as high as 40CAlmost a fifth of hospitals in the UK were forced to cancel operations during the three days in July last year when temperatures soared highest, researc…
Exclusive: doctors surveyed say young people forced to endure long waits as NHS services overwhelmedYoung people with eating disorders are coming to harm and ending up in A&E because they are being denied care and forced to endure long waits for tr…
Swiss firm’s withdrawal from Leqvio trial with NHS dents government plans to attract post-Brexit research and investment The Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis has ditched plans for a large clinical trial in the UK, in a further blow to the government’…