Some NHS 111 patients are to be booked appointments with their local pharmacist, officials have said. Patients in London with minor illnesses who call the NHS helpline can be sent
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Health teams working in the community are to get a multi-billion funding boost in a bid to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, the Prime Minister has announced. Theresa May pledged £3.5
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GPs made more than 1.4 million referrals for talking therapies for patients with anxiety or depression last year, new figures show. The number of referrals for talking therapy increased from
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Health officials have called on the elderly to get their flu jab as it sought to stem fears over a shortage of the vaccine. Last week concerns were raised that
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Urgent checks are being made on up to 3,000 foreign doctors after it was revealed a fake psychiatrist was allowed to practice for 22 years with no qualification. Zholia Alemi
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A major overhaul of national cancer screening programmes will look at possible changes to currently outsourced provision following “recent issues” with breast and cervical cancer screening, NHS England has said.
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A private company hired to perform various back-office tasks for the NHS in England has been slammed after it emerged that more than 40,000 women had not been sent the
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Fresh concerns about patient data have been raised after Google announced plans to bring the health division of its DeepMind artificial intelligence company more closely under its control. The move
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The NHS will invest up to £46 million to help tens of thousands of people living with diabetes to receive life-changing treatment. NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has pledged
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There are not enough public health policies designed to prevent illness, a Holyrood committee has found. MSPs on the Health and Sport Committee found that the health service was over-reliant
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