4 h. ago Starmer and Rayner launch local election campaign as Labour talks up NHS

The Prime Minister and his deputy will visit the Midlands on Thursday as the party asks voters ‘to play their part’ in delivering national renewal.

Politics

11 h. ago NHS Lanarkshire’s Director of Public Health has released their Annual Report

The main focus of the report is the health of infants, children and young people.

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13 h. ago Nurses launch landmark sexual harassment battle against NHS: Group claim transgender colleague given access to female changing rooms 'stared as they got undressed'

The eight nurses say that allowing a male-born colleague to use the women's facilities at Darlington Memorial Hospital puts them at risk, deprives them of dignity and breaches their rights.

Events

14 h. ago London grandmother may have to move to Scotland to access vital cancer drug unavailable on NHS in England

Breast cancer drug Enhurtu costs about £8,000 each session and is only available privately in England, but it is offered on the NHS in Scotland

Events

14 h. ago NHS worker murdered wife weeks after domestic abuse case dropped

Kasikai Chinyanga brutally murdered Veronica Chinyanga in Broxburn last June.

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16 h. ago New treatment for advanced blood cancer recommended for use on NHS

It is estimated that about 800 people with Hodgkin lymphoma could benefit from the decision by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

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18 h. ago Hand transplant recipient hugs donor’s sister in emotional first meeting

Julie Wild’s hands, pancreas, liver, and both kidneys were all donated after she died of a sudden brain bleed in 2019.

Politics

28 h. ago Six in 10 people unhappy with NHS, poll reveals amid ‘startling collapse’ in public satisfaction with health service

Nearly one in 10 people feel they have been harmed by the health service in recent years, a new poll suggests

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28 h. ago Public satisfaction with the NHS has 'collapsed' to a record low amid long waits for care and wasteful spending, 'gold

Britons blame their frustrations on long waits for a GP, dentist and hospital bed, a shortage of frontline staff and bureaucrat's wasteful spending.

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28 h. ago NHS satisfaction lowest on record as Wes Streeting vows to make it ‘envy of the world again’

British Social Attitudes survey shows a "startling collapse" in public satisfaction with the NHS with only one in five now satisfied with the state of the health service

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29 h. ago One in 10 Brits 'harmed' by the NHS in the last three years after 14 years of Tory rule

Ipsos survey questioned 10,000 people to represent the country and found many report being harmed by delays accessing NHS care

Events

36 h. ago NHS Forth Valley 'breaks even' but board is warned that £38 million of savings still needed

Members heard the financial position has improved but there is no room for complacency

Economics

36 h. ago Magician formerly known as Dynamo ‘could not have performed again without NHS’

The 42-year-old magician was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in his teens and has battled with his health in recent years.

Politics

37 h. ago How to help people with addictions on the streets? These Oregon programs have solutions

The state has one of the highest US rates of substance use disorders and ranks last for access to treatment. These initiatives are changing what rehab looks likeOregon has for years struggled with a drug crisis, reporting one of the highest rates of substance use disorders in the US and ranking last in the nation for access to treatment.The problem is systemic, rooted in decades of failure to invest in the level of behavioral health services needed for people with mental illnesses and addiction. The Pacific north-west state’s significant affordable housing shortage has compounded the challenges, as people languish on the streets without care. Many drug users spiral downward until they overdose, wind up in jail or prison or are forced into Oregon’s overcrowded psychiatric system. Continue reading...

Politics

38 h. ago Ten benefits and free or discounted services available to pensioners

As a range of bills go up in April, older people can soften the pain of the increases by making sure they are getting everything they are entitled to

Politics

40 h. ago NHS Fife could face enforcement powers after row with equalities watchdog

The Equality and Human Rights Commission 'wrote to NHS Fife to remind them of their obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty' after the high-profile case.

Events

44 h. ago New £20 million funding to help make drone and flying taxi services 'reality'

Ministers said they want to give the UK the ‘most advanced aviation technology ecosystem in the world’

Economics

52 h. ago New £20 million funding to help launch drone and flying taxi services

Ministers said they want to give the UK the ‘most advanced aviation technology ecosystem in the world’.

Economics

62 h. ago NHS advice on tiredness condition that wakes you up at night

You could also have sensitivity to light, get headaches and experience other soreness, the NHS says

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63 h. ago NHS alert as more than a million people impacted by grim illness

People with symptoms are being urged to 'stay home'

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