Increasing numbers of patients are waiting more than four hours to be seen at A&E departments, which also saw a record number of attendances and ambulance callouts in December. Data
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A “dire shortage” of mental health care workers amid rising demand is leaving staff overworked and demoralised and compromising care, according to the doctors’ union. More than half (52%) of
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Thousands of nurses in Northern Ireland have started another day of strike action in a row over pay. The protest follows a similar strike last month over salary rates that
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A plan to treat and discharge patients from hospital on the same day has been “grossly derailed”, senior medics have warned. Under the NHS Long Term Plan, every hospital with
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More than 1,000 sexual assaults have been reported on mixed-sex mental health wards since 2017, new data shows. The figures, obtained by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), show there were
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The Department of Health has urged trade unions to return to talks ahead of planned strike action this week. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will lead its members out
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More people will be working on Christmas Day compared to previous years, often without any extra pay, new research has suggested. The TUC estimated that 1,104,000 employees will work on
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A mother died from sepsis after a “breakdown in care” which saw her kept inside an ambulance in a hospital car park for nearly three hours, her family have said.
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Healthcare workers could be forced to have flu jabs as new figures reveal that just 61% of NHS staff have received their injections. Data from Public Health England shows that
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The number of NHS mental health patients being sent to care facilities away from their local area should be reduced, new draft guidelines have recommended. The National Institute for Health
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