Philip Hammond has denied health and social care services are facing “looming chaos” as he was accused of forgetting the NHS from the Autumn Statement. Labour MP Luciana Berger told
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A health board has apologised after a woman died from a brain tumour six days before an MRI scan. An investigation by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) found several
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A senior Tory MP has called on ministers to “stop the cuts” to public health budgets. Dr Sarah Wollaston, the chairwoman of the Health Select Committee, said reductions in funding
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Health workers’ leaders are urging the Government to reconsider the controversial 1% cap on pay rises, warning that wages have dropped “dramatically” in recent years. A letter by 15 unions
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Leading doctors have expressed concern over the impact Brexit could have on the NHS workforce. If there is a dip in the number of European surgeons who work in the
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Inadequate social care funding is leading to delays in hospital operations, a leading surgeon has warned. Delaying transferring patients from hospitals to social care means that there are not enough
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Charities and health experts have reacted with dismay to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, which failed to pledge extra cash for the NHS or social care. Philip Hammond repeated the Government’s
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The Government should provide tax breaks to encourage people to save to pay for the costs of social care, a former pensions minister has said. Baroness Altmann (pictured), who was
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Every former health secretary of the past 20 years has signed an open letter voicing “alarm and dismay” at the Government’s failure to deliver on promises to improve services for
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A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the collapse of an £800 million NHS contract to outsource care of older and mentally ill people, the Commons spending watchdog warned. An influential
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