Dame Ruth May, England’s chief nursing officer, has announced her retirement. She described her career in the health service, which has spanned almost four decades, as a “privilege”. Announcing her
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Many people with breast cancer are being “systematically left behind” due to inaction on inequities and hidden suffering, experts have said. A new global report suggests people with the condition
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Parents who claim they were “gagged” in legal proceedings about their dying children have gathered at the Supreme Court as justices consider allowing the naming of doctors involved in two
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A change in the way the waiting list in England is calculated means some patients are no longer counted in the overall total. The waiting list used to cover all
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The public inquiry examining the deaths of almost 2,000 mental health patients in Essex has been expanded, officials have announced. The initial inquiry into the deaths of people on mental
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Findings that children’s gender care in the NHS has been based on weak evidence have been branded “scandalous” by the shadow health secretary who told of his anger that adult
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Concerns have been raised that gender-questioning young people are being failed by “appalling” waiting lists as a report warned that staffing is one of the “most challenging” parts of delivering
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Rats in maternity wards, wasps nests in imaging areas, and ants “coming through the ceiling” are just some of the pest problems reported across the NHS over the last three
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A whistleblower at the Tavistock Trust said he is “pleased I didn’t turn away” when colleagues raised concerns to him several years ago about the children’s gender service which closed
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A trainee anaesthetist who stole drugs from the NHS hospital he worked at to inject his girlfriend with during sex has been jailed for two years and one month. Jonathon
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