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Party leader’s new year speech to promise ‘national renewal’ if elected but stress role of private sector tooLabour will not open the “big government chequebook” in an attempt to repair Britain’s faltering public services if it wins the next election, …
PM plans a ‘no tricks’ reset but with an inflation fall already expected this is more about hanging on at an electionUK politics live – latest news updatesIn his first big speech since taking over at No 10, Rishi Sunak promised “no tricks, no ambiguity…
Exclusive: DHSC alleges gowns were not sterile, could not be used within NHS ‘for any purpose’, and technical labelling was ‘invalid’ UK politics live – latest news updatesThe UK government has accused a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle…
PM admits waiting times are too long as he makes five promises in new year speechUK politics live – latest news updatesNHS waiting times are too long, Rishi Sunak has admitted in a new year’s speech that saw him urge hospitals not to cancel elective su…
In what NHS calls ‘never events’, items including swabs, blades and drill bits left in patients 291 times in England in 2021-22 A rising number of medical foreign objects, including wire cutters, scalpel blades and drill bits, have been left inside hos…
Paul Nowak says frontline workers need a ‘fair deal’ and urges PM to open pay negotiations with unionsUK strike calendar: service stoppages in JanuaryThe new leader of the TUC has called for an urgent meeting with the prime minister in an attempt to en…
Anger and disbelief over claim service in England has money to cope with surge in winter illnessDoctors have accused Rishi Sunak of being “delusional” after he denied the NHS was in crisis and insisted it had the money it needed to cope with the surge …
Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ there is funding to cope but admits service in England faces ‘unprecedented challenge’UK politics live – latest news updatesIt will be “very difficult” for some people to access the NHS this winter, Downing Street has acknowledg…
Downing Street says NHS is receiving funding it needs despite Royal College of Emergency Medicine saying ministers are in denial. This live has now closedEarlier today the vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said ministers were in…
Exclusive: study is first to compare pioneering targeted treatment on difficult-to-treat tumours with standard radiotherapy Three breast cancer patients have undergone pioneering proton beam therapy for the first time on the NHS as part of a world-firs…