Clearing the NHS backlog could cost almost £17 billion, an independent health charity has said. The Health Foundation said coronavirus “will cast a long shadow over the NHS for many
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Chronic staff shortages in the NHS are getting worse, experts have warned, as new figures showed there were 10,000 more vacancies in June than a year ago. NHS Digital data,
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Doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to a severely disabled 14-year-old boy, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Cobb concluded that a move to palliative care is
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Nicola Sturgeon said she wants the health service in Scotland to be “stronger than ever before” as she launched a £1 billion-plus recovery plan for the NHS. The First Minister
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Wales Health Minister, Eluned Morgan, has welcomed more than half a billion pounds of new funding for health and social services in Wales to deal with COVID. The Welsh Government
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A previously scandal-hit maternity unit has been downgraded to inadequate by health inspectors, while the overall trust it is part of has been told it must improve. The Care Quality
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There is still potential for a “large” wave of Covid-19 in the autumn which could see 1,000 people admitted to hospital each day, an expert has warned. Professor Neil Ferguson,
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More than 13,000 hospital admissions of children each year between the ages of 11 and 15 are prevented because of early years centres, a report has said. The positive effects
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The number of children attending hospital having self-harmed has risen to its highest level since the SNP came to power, new figures show. A total of 1,400 children went to
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More than one in 10 patients in the UK were infected with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic while being treated in hospital in for another reason, research
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