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Patients in England, Scotland and Wales missed out on starting blood pressure-lowering drugs, British Heart Foundation saysThousands of people are at risk of avoidable heart attacks and strokes, experts have warned, after nearly 500,000 people in Engla…
First joint strike action on 6 February set to seriously affect hospitals and services in England and WalesThe NHS is facing a day of massive disruption next month when nurses and ambulance staff in England and Wales stage an unprecedented joint strike…
Labour leader uses PMQs to focus on waiting times and real-life example of woman who died in PlymouthUK politics live – latest news updatesKeir Starmer has urged Rishi Sunak to apologise for ambulance waiting times and the “the lethal chaos under his w…
Group representing trusts in England warns of disruption to patient care as two days of stoppages beginUK politics live – latest news updatesNHS bosses have implored ministers to “do all you can” to end the strikes that are disrupting care for patients…
Report says young person has to have attempted suicide multiple times to be offered inpatient supportCase study: ‘Young people in crisis are just dismissed’Young people in the midst of a mental health crisis need to have attempted suicide several times…
Rosalind Franklin laboratory in Leamington Spa no longer to be part of laboratory network processing Covid testsEngland’s PCR testing network for Covid is to be scaled back due to a fall in demand, public health officials have said.The UK Health Securi…
Lawyers for more than 1,000 infected and affected people want evidence to be passed to prosecuting authoritiesVictims and family members affected by the contaminated blood scandal are calling for criminal charges to be considered as the public inquiry …
Industrial action also set to escalate in other sectors while government gears up anti-strike legislationA wave of further teaching, ambulance and civil service strikes is likely to move forward this week as nurses are set for their second major period…
Labour leader sets out views on health service, saying ‘if we don’t get real about reform, the NHS will die’Keir Starmer has said Labour is prepared to reform the NHS to prevent it dying, as he said the current system of GP visits “isn’t working”.The L…
PestFix had assets of £18,000 and 16 staff but won contracts worth £344m after being put on government’s high-priority supplier listA pest control supplies firm has disclosed it made a profit of more than £9m for supplying personal protective equipment…