Paul Gallagher
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United Kingdom
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NHS pay talks: Unions will enter negotiations with 'extreme caution' after months of delay
Unison confirms no more industrial action will take place during talks which begin tomorrow over a potential new agreement that could finally bring an and to months of strikes → Read More
NHS strikes: Junior doctors expected to join mass walkouts as BMA prepares to announce ballot result
Some 45,000 junior doctors in England will stage a 72-hour walkout in March that would spark chaos in A&E departments and see 200,000 appointments cancelled, if a majority support industrial action. → Read More
NHS strikes 2023: Nurses in England ready for walkouts until summer in pay row
Royal College of Nursing vows action for 'as long as it takes' after members walk out at 77 trusts - and are joined for the first time by 10,000 ambulance staff → Read More
Living with Alzheimer’s: 'I wouldn’t use anyone’s name because I couldn’t remember them'
Jane Buckels tells Paul Gallagher about her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s and the steps she’s taken to live life to the full, including setting and celebrating goals and planning her routines carefully. → Read More
NHS crisis: Rishi Sunak’s emergency care recovery plan doomed to fail without extra staff, trust leaders warn
Record ambulance handover delays, response times and A&E waits have dominated headlines in recent weeks but the Prime Minister said 'we're going to fix this problem' → Read More
NHS recovery plan is a step in the right direction, but it won't fix the health service
The two-year plan from the Government has been broadly welcomed by the medical establishment, but trust leaders are more interested in seeing a long-term workforce strategy to deal with record vacancies → Read More
NHS strikes: Patients dying ‘all the time’, paramedics warn
Thousands of NHS emergency workers with Unison, Unite and GMB staged walk outs across England and Wales on Monday citing their concerns for public safety. → Read More
‘The way my wife died in hospital after being admitted with an infection will haunt me for ever’
Robert Boak believes a series of failings by staff at Furness General Hospital caused his wife to develop sepsis, which led to her death → Read More
Nurses vow to keep striking, and poll shows patients support them
The TUC said a survey of 1,758 adults showed "large-scale support" for nurses, ambulance staff and other health service workers who are taking industrial action over pay and staffing. → Read More
NHS strikes 2023: Nurses in England and Wales announce February walkouts
Royal College of Nursing decision to strike on February 6 and 7 designed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Mid-Staffs inquiry, which highlighted the effects of nurse shortages on patient care and excess deaths → Read More
NHS will be 'no better off' under Labour than the Tories, say GPs amid backlash over Keir Starmer comments
Doctors' Association UK and GP Survival write to Sir Keir Starmer highlighting their 'serious concerns' of the effects Labour proposals will have on patient safety and care. → Read More
How long does long Covid last? Symptoms should end within a year, major study says
According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, an estimated 2.1 million people in private households in the UK were experiencing long Covid as of 4 December, 2022 → Read More
60 or more patients per day the 'new normal' for family doctors, warn GP leaders
Royal College of GPs chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne told i family doctors including herself are dealing with "unsafe" numbers of patients on a daily basis. → Read More
NHS pressure ‘unbearable’ as hospitals start warning patients to stay away from A&E unless they are dying
The heads of the British Medical Association, Society for Acute Medicine and Royal College of Emergency Medicine said staff are desperately trying to keep up with intense demand at hospitals nationwide → Read More
Is the NHS crisis really causing 500 deaths each week? The warning over emergency care delays explained
It is impossible to know the exact number of excess deaths caused by serious problems within the health service, but medics are becoming increasingly frustrated with failures to tackle deep-seated issues → Read More
'My wife was left to die alone and in pain on a busy NHS ward
On the night of Jeanine Huggins's death, just two nurses were looking after a ward of 34 patients at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. → Read More
Saturday Night In Birmingham As The Prime Minister Vows To Tackle Drunken Britain
Ambulance trusts will put on extra staff over the weekend but reminded people all alcohol-related calls took paramedics away from life-threatening incidents → Read More
Flu cases in hospitals rise seven-fold in a month adding to Covid 'twindemic' fears
New data shows there were 3,746 patients a day in hospitals across England with flu last week, up from 520 a month ago, adding to ongoing pressures from Covid. → Read More
NHS strikes: Junior doctors expected to join January walkouts over pay and give Jeremy Hunt a ‘bloody nose’
BMA leaders are confident medics will vote for industrial action and join nursing and emergency care colleagues on the picket line in their fight for pay restoration. → Read More
NHS strikes: Hospitals and ambulance crews braced for days of fallout amid backlog of untreated patients
Industrial action disruption 'far from over' as more NHS trusts declare critical incidents and begin turning patients away to focus on cancer and other urgent cases → Read More