A lack of doctors and nurses in the NHS is forcing bosses to pay high rates for agency staff, new analysis shows. Dr Sarah Clarke, president of the Royal College
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A mother of a nine-year-old girl has said the doctor who attempted to cover-up the circumstances of her daughter’s death put their family through 26 years of “mental torment”. Jennifer
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The number of patients in hospital beds in England who no longer need to be there has reached a new monthly high, figures show. An average of 13,613 beds per
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Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the UK have voted to strike over pay. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said industrial action will take place in
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People with Parkinson’s disease are being forced to take desperate measures due to a “hidden” workforce crisis, a charity has warned. Parkinson’s UK warned that workforce shortages among specialist staff
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Concerns about bed shortages, emergency response times and poor care quality have risen sharply up the list of issues people are most worried about in the NHS, a new poll
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Three teenage girls died after “multifaceted and systemic” failures in NHS mental health care, an independent investigation has found. Christie Harnett (pictured right), 17, Nadia Sharif (pictured left), 17 and
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The leader of the DUP has repeated a claim the protocol delayed some heart surgeries from going ahead in Northern Ireland. In response, the Southern Health and Social Care Trust
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Rishi Sunak was confronted by a patient about nurses’ pay, during a visit to a hospital in Croydon. Catherine Poole, a 77-year-old patient who is recovering from surgery, gave the
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Nurses work the equivalent of one day a week for free, according to a new analysis of pay. Researchers from London Economics, commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing, looked
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