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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…
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…