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Doctor EXODUS to Australia and New Zealand feared as new NHS strikes start
The British Medical Association is worried UK doctors could leave the NHS for Australia and New Zealand unless the Tories settle ongoing pay disputes by the summer → Read More
Hospitals see massive surge in kids and teenagers needing teeth removed due to decay
Young children and teenagers are turning up at hospital emergency departments needing teeth removed due to decay as dentists warn a lack of dental healthcare access is causing it → Read More
'Miracle' gene therapy treatment cures baby facing death
Little Teddi Shaw has become the first NHS patient to receive the treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy. The 19-month-old was diagnosed with MLD last April → Read More
NHS heroes with horrific Long Covid now face losing jobs as support is cut
As many as 10,000 NHS workers who kept the country running through the pandemic are now predicted to make compensation claims after having their lives ruined by Long Covid → Read More
Tories 'breathtakingly complacency' after trying to blame Covid and flu for NHS meltdown
Tories have been accused of repeatedly ignoring the problems that have left the NHS at breaking point after 13 years of shameful underfunding as they blamed Covid, Strep A and flu instead → Read More
Healthcare in CRISIS: Future of NHS is on a knife-edge as Tories urged to act NOW
Medics warned Tory cuts have left the NHS on its knees, amid claims up to 500 people a week die because of delays in emergency care → Read More
Hospitals to offer Bank Holiday service but Government refuse to discuss nurses pay
Thousands of patients are being told their operations and appointments are cancelled as the Tories dug their heels in on real-terms pay cuts for frontline heroes of the pandemic → Read More
Nurses demand to be 'valued' as pay lags behind much of Europe
The Royal College of Nursing has written to Health Secretary Steve Barclay citing this week’s international report by the OECD as “categorical evidence that the United Kingdom values nurses less than others” as they prepare for strike action next Thursday → Read More
16-hour day of A&E nurse who leaves at 6am and returns long after kids are asleep
Rachael, who oversees an A&E department at a hospital in South East England, describes a typical day at work. As she leaves her home in the morning, she knows she won't see her kids until the next day → Read More
Sixth UK child dies of Strep A as health chiefs give update on alarming outbreak
Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, Hanna Roap and three other unnamed children have all recently died with Strep A infection, with four of the tragic deaths having occurred within the last week → Read More
Nurses confirm 76 NHS trusts where they will strike before Christmas
The Royal College of Nursing has announced 76 NHS trusts and services will see up to 100,000 strike walkouts next month during an expected winter of discontent → Read More
Tearful MP Jess Phillips says she feared her dad would die in 18-hour A&E wait
Labour MP Jess Phillips, who raced back to help her 78-year-old dad Stewart with suspected sepsis, said he was 'disorientated and shaking' - 'it was frightening and I cried' → Read More
All your questions answered as hero NHS nurses stage unprecedented mass strike
For the first time in its 106-year history, the Royal College of Nursing balloted its 300,000 NHS members and nurses at 175 trusts or services plan to strike over pay and working conditions → Read More
Nurses forced to survive on patients' leftovers say 'this is why we're striking'
Nurse Esther has struggled so much with high rent, spiralling energy bills and grocery costs, she is now working in a NHS hospital as an agency nurse and has moved to the north → Read More
Savage cuts and strikes loom for NHS as furious patient, 77, confronts Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak may have been hoping to enjoy his first visit as prime minister but was met with the wrath of one NHS patient who laid into him over nurses' pay → Read More
Patients left waiting more than 60 hours for hospital bed after being seen at A&E
Two patients were left waiting at a major hospital trust for more than 60 hours in a shocking delay as the NHS suffers from record wait times in A&E → Read More
Dame Kelly Holmes fires warning to No10 over cost of living mental health 'timebomb'
The Olympic legend, who came out as gay in June aged 52,. also candidly spoke of her own mental health struggles, saying she 'lived through some of my darkest days alone' → Read More
World's first EVER drug shown to work against Alzheimer's developed by scientists
Scientists say the development of the only drug to work against Alzheimer’s is a 'historic moment' - with regulators expected to approve the groundbreaking drug by the New Year → Read More
Man, 87, forced to wait 15 HOURS for ambulance as family says 'system is broken'
David Wakeley, 87, who suffers from prostate cancer, is fighting for his life in hospital after falling at his home in Cornwall on Monday night. His family laid the blame squarely on the Government → Read More
Kids under-10 to be offered polio jab as paralysed patient linked to suspected outbreak
Polio booster vaccines will now be offered to all children under-10 in London to prevent the first community outbreak of the virus in Britain since the 1970s → Read More