9 h. ago Funding for hospitals will be linked to patient feedback ratings in Starmer's 10

Patients' ratings of hospitals will be directly to the funding they receive from the government, under Prime Minister Keir Starmer's plans to overhaul the NHS.

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9 h. ago NHS keeps patients away because they are an inconvenience, new boss admits ahead of shake

Failing to listen to public frustrations could mean the end of a national health service, warns Sir Jim Mackey, as Labour prepares to unveil its 10-year plan for the NHS next week

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10 h. ago NHS keeps public away as patients seen as ‘inconvenience’, new boss says

Sir Jim Mackey’s statement comes as he prepares to implement a 10-year health plan to be published by the Government next week.

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63 h. ago Patient dies after treatment for broken hip as NHS ordered to apologise

The health board has been ordered to apologise following the death of the patient.

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63 h. ago Patient death at London hospital linked to cyber attack on NHS

Guy's and St Thomas', King's College and Lewisham and Greenwich hospitals were all affected by the cyber attack in June last year

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64 h. ago NHS cyber attack contributed to London hospital patient's death, trust reveals

Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College and Lewisham and Greenwich hospitals were all affected last June

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65 h. ago Invasive cancer tests could be dropped for new ‘sponge’ method

Sponge test already in use by NHS could benefit patients with Barrett’s oesophagus

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4 d. ago Full list of patients who can be prescribed Mounjaro by GPs after NHS rollout

Weight loss injections will be available at GP surgeries in England - but only for patients who meet strict eligibility criteria

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5 d. ago The 50p supplement that could banish cystitis for GOOD. Patients call it life

Although antibiotics are routinely prescribed, many patients - more commonly women than men - either find the drugs don't always cure the problem or the infections quickly return.

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6 d. ago Cheap supplement that could banish painful UTIs praised by patients as 'life changing'... so why won't the NHS endorse it?

Although antibiotics are routinely prescribed, many patients - more commonly women than men - either find the drugs don't always cure the problem or the infections quickly return.

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7 d. ago Desperate patients using unregulated ADHD services due to long NHS waiting lists

A study found NHS ADHD waiting lists are now unacceptably long

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9 d. ago 'I've dreamed of this moment': First ever patient gets 'world's most expensive drug' on the NHS

Called Hemgenix, the drug was administered yesterday at St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London to a patient from Newcastle.

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9 d. ago Thousands of NHS patients denied breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs

Drugs that slow progression of Alzheimer’s don’t provide enough benefit to justify substantial cost for NHS, regulator has said

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9 d. ago Alzheimer's drugs rejected for NHS use in 'painful setback' for dementia patients

Two drugs – donanemab and lecanemab – have been rejected for NHS use because their benefits are "too small" to justify their cost

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9 d. ago NHS to offer urgent tests for patients with 2 warning signs of 'one of the most lethal cancers'

GPs will look for people over 60 who may have signs of the killer cancer

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1 week ago Stop filming medical treatments for TikTok, NHS staff warn patients

Medic says patients putting themselves at risk by trying to record appointments for social media

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1 week ago Patients angering NHS staff by secretly filming consultations for TikTok and Instagram

The Society of Radiographers (SoR) is calling on health officials to introduce national guidelines that ban covert recording in hospitals and clinics.

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1 week ago NHS staff slam trend of patients filming their procedures for TikTok

In one instance, a cancer patient’s daughter tried to record a cannular being fitted

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1 week ago Patients who record NHS care for TikTok or Instagram ‘put themselves at risk’

The Society of Radiographers also said that filming doctors and treatments was causing NHS staff unnecessary anxiety.

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1 week ago Major update to NHS app will let patients sign up to trial cutting

Patients will have the chance to search for projects on their smartphone, giving them the chance to benefit first from potentially ground-breaking new treatments

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