16 hours ago Free energy drinks and ‘mandatory euthanasia’ among tips submitted as NHS public consultation mocked

Government launches major consultation on the future of the NHS, promising to put patients and staff at the heart of its 10-year health plan

Politics

18 hours ago Ambulance crews are being ordered to dump severely ill patients in hospital corridors if there are no emergency doctors around

Doctors have criticised the drop and go move saying 'it won't fix anything' and 'risks the lives of patients', but Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, said the policy had 'worked very well' in London .

Science

18 hours ago Streeting revives claim that some patients face avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current state of NHS – UK politics live

Health secretary says NHS is going through the ‘worst crisis in its history’In the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, one of the balloons is ...

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19 hours ago Death Row man who 'wants to die' after killing brother finally given execution date

Joseph Corcoran was sentenced to death in 1999 after being convicted for the murder of three men – including his own brother – but has repeatedly asked to be executed

Events

20 hours ago Netflix Woman of the Hour ending scene shows true story of Monique Hoyt

Netflix's Woman of the Hour is a true crime film based on the life of serial killer Rodney Alcala who was sentenced to death three times

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