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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…
Pandemic, social inequality, austerity and online harm fuelling soaring NHS referrals, say expertsThe number of children in England needing treatment for serious mental health problems has risen by 39% in a year, official data shows.Experts say the pan…
Lenny Henry and Tristram Hunt are among representatives of the arts to call for national celebrationsThis year’s 75th anniversary of the Windrush, the ship that brought hundreds of immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK, should be a “diamond jubilee f…
Ministers urged to recall parliament amid warnings patients are dying needlessly due through inactionThe crisis engulfing the NHS will continue until Easter, health leaders have warned, as senior doctors accused ministers of letting patients die needle…
Medical body calls for ‘immediate action’ as Royal College of Emergency Medicine reiterates claims over deaths caused by care delaysThe pressure on the NHS is “intolerable and unsustainable”, medics have said, amid warnings that the deaths of up to 500…
Exclusive: Widow says she has struggled to grieve for her husband properly after mortuary failed to follow proceduresA widow received damages from an NHS trust after a mortuary allowed the body of her late husband to decompose to the point he was “unvi…
December set to be worst month on record for A&E waiting times as up to 500 people estimated to die each week due to delaysThe deaths of an estimated 300 to 500 people each week caused by delays in emergency care is “not a short-term thing”, a seni…
Lib Dems say face-to-face GP bookings ‘almost extinct’ in some areas as their survey shows a rise in self-prescribing Almost one in four people have bought medicine online or at a pharmacy to treat their illness after failing to see a GP face to face, …