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Including jab as part of routine immunisations would have ‘really positive impact on health of young children’, says JCVIA vaccine to protect against chickenpox should become a routine childhood jab in the UK, government advisers have said, adding that…
Exclusive: Voluntary organisations struggling as grants for local government and NHS contracts fail to cover costsCharities in England are on the brink of insolvency after subsidising heavily underfunded local authority and NHS contracts to the tune o…
Workforce report says that government strategy to boost staff may have come too lateA growing number of doctors plan to leave the profession due to burnout and dissatisfaction, the General Medical Council has said, highlighting fears that the governmen…
Exclusive: Nearly 31,000 children aged four or under admitted to hospital each year in England due to respiratory virus, with 80% developing acute bronchiolitisThousands of babies and toddlers are being admitted to hospital in England each year with lu…
With waiting times on the rise and a challenging winter ahead, analysts claim the ‘financial bottom line’ is being prioritisedRishi Sunak’s pledge to slash NHS waiting lists has effectively been downgraded, the Observer has been told, amid an increase …
BMA raises concerns with minister about planned data platform, which could be run by US firm PalantirPatients fear that their personal information may be misused by the NHS’s new data store, especially if the US spy technology company Palantir runs it,…
Inequalities between rich and poor areas and white and black communities widening, according to child mortality dataBlack babies in England are almost three times more likely to die than white babies after death rates surged in the last year, according…
£5m project launched with aim of having reliable tests within five years to provide quick diagnosisScientists are to begin piloting simple blood tests for dementia that could revolutionise detection of the disease and within five years lead to people b…
Ministers give NHS England just a tenth of sum, forcing leaders to scale back drive to tackle hospital waiting list of 7 millionHospitals will reduce the number of operations they perform over the next few months after ministers rejected an NHS plea fo…
Findings of ‘thinly veiled, everyday instances of racism at work’ raise fears medical graduates may avoid UKThree in five foreign doctors in the NHS face “racist microaggressions” at work, such as patients refusing to be treated by them or having their…