15 h. ago Has anyone asked the Chancellor? Treasury launches 'leak inquiry' into Budget... but City watchdog is waiting in the wings

Officials have been ordered to root out the source of briefings that misrepresented economic forecasts the department was being given privately by the OBR watchdog.

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18 h. ago Wes Streeting launches review into ADHD, autism and mental health services

The Health Secretary has previously said there has been an ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health conditions.

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27 h. ago Wes Streeting urges Brits to 'stop turning up in A&E with ingrowing toenails'

Health Secretary Wes Streeting comments on NHS data showing more people turning up in A&Es with conditions like ingrowing toenails, itchy skin, hiccups and blocked noses

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27 h. ago Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar

Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports. Streeting is understood to be concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the Times reported. He has asked leading experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become “over-pathologised”, the newspaper said, as he seeks to grapple with the 4.4 million working-age people now claiming sickness or incapacity benefit. The figure has risen by 1.2 million since 2019, while the number of 16 to 34-year-olds off work with long-term sickness because of a mental health condition is said to have grown rapidly in the same period. Streeting told the Times he knew from “personal experience how devastating it can be ...

Science

28 h. ago Streeting orders review of mental health diagnosis amid welfare reform drive

The Health Secretary is concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness.

Science

33 h. ago Baby formula to cost up to £500 a year less say Welsh and UK Governments

UK health secretary Wes Streeting said: 'It’s not right that manufacturers have been able to package up these products in a way that plays on the instincts of new mums and dads who are just trying to do what’s right for their child'

Economics

37 h. ago Wes Streeting announces Labour will ‘end corridor care’ in NHS hospitals by 2029

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says Labour will end NHS corridor care after nurses told of being powerless as patients spent hours slowly dying on trolleys in busy A&Es

Science

40 h. ago Wes Streeting has 'had it' with 'juvenile delinquent' BMA as he warns Christmas strikes threaten lives

Health Secretary Wes Streeting made clear he has 'had it' with the militant union, branding them 'Moaning Minnies' and 'juvenile delinquents'.

Events

40 h. ago Wes Streeting agrees he has ‘had it’ with the BMA over doctors’ strikes

The Health Secretary said there had been an outbreak of ‘juvenile delinquency’ at the doctors’ union.

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41 h. ago NHS services will not be cut to fund US pharma deal – Streeting

Downing Street has said the cost would start small and gradually increase to an estimated £1 billion by March 2029.

Economics

4 d. ago ‘Groundbreaking’ HIV prevention programme aims to end transmissions by 2030

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has unveiled a new HIV action plan in a bid to end transmissions in the next five years

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4 d. ago WES STREETING: We're in extraordinary position in tackling HIV

Writing for The Mirror on World AIDS Day, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said huge medical advances mean people with HIV lead long, happy and healthy lives as he said work needs to be done to tackle prejudice

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6 d. ago Prostate cancer screening should not be offered to most men in the UK, say government advisers

Health secretary Wes Streeting said he would consider the findings

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9 d. ago Milkshakes, Irn Bru cans and lattes will be hit by Rachel Reeves' new sugar tax

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the Government will end the exemption for milk-based beverages from the existing tax on sugary drinks

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9 d. ago Kemi Badenoch calls on Wes Streeting to stop puberty blocker trial

The Health Secretary has said the trial will ‘provide better evidence for how the NHS can support and treat young people with gender incongruence’.

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1 week ago MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Puberty blocker trial turns children into crash

Labour's Health Secretary, Wes Streeting said a planned clinical trial by NHS England would go ahead. The ban would then be reviewed in 2027 in the light of any new evidence that emerged.

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1 week ago Arsenal 'will miss Gabriel' but Mikel Arteta has 'brilliant' replacement ready to step up

EXCLUSIVE Mikel Arteta has been told he's already got the perfect understudy waiting in the wings as Gabriel hobbled off for Brazil during the international break

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting admits he is not comfortable deporting kids under new asylum plan

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported following a backlash - but insisted it is the 'right thing' to do

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2 w. ago Donald Trump's vile 'Quiet Piggy' insult slapped down by UK minister in blunt response

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has called out Donald Trump after he pointed at a female reporter and told her 'Quiet! Quiet, piggy' on an Air Force One flight

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2 w. ago First NHS Men’s Health Strategy to include major boost to miners

Health Secretary Wes Streeting vowed to give support to men in ex-mining and industrial communities who have suffered from historic health inequalities after a 'life down the pit'

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