4 h. ago NHS boss Amanda Pritchard quits – what 'new era' means for health service

Health Secretary Wes Streeting insists the NHS must ‘change or die’ and is taking more direct charge of the health service to make it happen following the departure of Amanda Pritchard

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6 h. ago NHS boss Amanda Pritchard QUITS as Labour's Wes Streeting bids to tighten his control of health service

Her departure as NHS England chief executive follows a meeting with the Health Secretary yesterday to discuss his plans for an overhaul.

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6 h. ago Who is NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard and why did she quit?

Ms Pritchard called the choice to step down from the role a "hugely difficult decision” to make

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9 h. ago NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard dramatically quits after being branded 'complacent' in excoriating Commons report

It follows meetings between the senior official and Health Secretary Wes Streeting

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28 h. ago Scientists reviewing Musk’s Neuralink are fired – then rehired – from FDA following flurry of DOGE cuts

Around 300 FDA staffers have been asked to return to work after Musk’s DOGE axed thousands of jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services

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43 h. ago Pharmacies face 'a financial cliff edge' and could be forced to cut services, industry leaders warn

Pharmacists are facing a 'financial cliff edge' and will cut services for patients unless the Government provides funding, leaders have warned.

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3 d. ago Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years

Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state’s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school yearThe measles outbreak in Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials.Since late January, 90 cases of measles have been identified in the South Plains region, the state’s department of state health services (DSHS) reported Friday. At least 16 patients have been hospitalized as a result. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Dissatisfaction among gen Z staff is ‘ticking timebomb’ for NHS

Warning from the Royal College of Nursing is based on Nuffield Trust analysis of NHS England staff surveysThe NHS in England is facing a “ticking timebomb” when it comes to retaining young staff, nursing leaders have warned, after new analysis showed its generation Z workers are becoming more stressed and unhappy over time.A new report by the Nuffield Trust shows soaring dissatisfaction rates among staff in the health service’s youngest cohort, aged 21 to 30 – based on analysis of NHS surveys. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures

The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses

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6 d. ago Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it

Newly installed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F

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7 d. ago RFK Jr. goes viral after posing with shirtless Dr Oz and Russell Brand in bizarre group shot

The new secretary of health and human services, 71, held a lizard as he smiled alongside Brand, 49, and Mehmet Oz, 64.

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7 d. ago Revealed: The simple ways to help dementia patients live longer

Nearly one million people suffer from dementia in the UK, two thirds of whom live at home. Caring for those with the condition, is set to cost the health service as much as £90bn each year by 2040.

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7 d. ago Four deputies to New York mayor resign in fallout over dropped corruption charges

Departures follow justice department shelving charges widely seen as reward for Eric Adams helping Trump administrationFour deputies to New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, resigned on Monday as the growing chaos following a justice department request to drop corruption charges against him, widely seen as a reward for his help with Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, engulfs his three-year-old administration.According to reports, four of Adams’ deputies – first deputy mayor Maria Torres Springer, deputy mayor for operations Meera Joshi, deputy mayor for health and human services Anne Williams-Isom, and deputy mayor for public safety Chauncey Parker – said they were stepping down. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago New DWP State Pension issue could see thousands ask for backpayments

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been urged to improve its communication after an investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found it took eight years to inform a British expat about a change to his State Pension

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8 d. ago RFK Jr shares bizarre pic with lizard, Russell Brand — and shirtless Dr. Oz

Kennedy was sworn in as Health and Human Services secretary last week

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8 d. ago Health Secretary signals support for more private investment to fix the NHS

Wes Streeting said there is a ‘hell of a lot more to do’ to sort out the health service.

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8 d. ago RFK Jr. makes savage cut to the CDC and its vaunted team of 'disease detectives' on his first day as Trump's health chief

The newly confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services for President Donald Trump fired nearly half of the vaunted team of 'disease detectives.'

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