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New figures show decline in the healthy life expectancy of Scots

SCOTS in the most deprived communities are spending more than one third of their lives in poor health, according to new figures released by National…

The National (Scotland)

Dr Hilary says Santas Claus is in need of a health MOT

The big man consumes 530 billion calories and 2.5billion units of alcohol on Christmas Day

Wales Online

This Morning's Vanessa Feltz moves fans with passionate defence of nurses strike

Vanessa Feltz shared her views on nurses strikes on This Morning as she slammed those who are not supporting nurses' right to fair pay and a safe working environment

Daily Mirror

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Welsh health board urges public to avoid emergency departments

Ambulance service blames demand, staff sickness, and patient handover times for elderly man being taken to hospital on plank

The Guardian - UK

Charity helping struggling parents: ‘We arrived to find the mother in a trance, having not slept for days’

On the Breadline: ‘The lowest point of my life was when a cockroach fell onto my baby daughter,’ single mother tells Anna Davis

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt refuses to rule out BANNING nurses from going on strike in new crackdown

Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt twice refused to deny a complete ban on nurses going on strike - as they prepare to begin their first walkout of its kind in a century tomorrow

Daily Mirror

Dutch court rejects attempt to widen euthanasia laws

The Netherlands does not have to make assisting in a suicide legal for anyone beyond medical professionals, Dutch judges ruled on Wednesday, rejecting a bid by a right-to-die organisation to widen euthanasia laws.

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On The Breadline: How Basch Helps is supporting Londoners struggling under burden of cost of living crisis

The community enterprise provides a lifeline for hundreds of families struggling with bills. Anna Davis reports

Evening Standard

Nurses in plea for public support on eve of first ever strike - we're doing this for you

Royal College of Nursing boss Pat Cullen said staff had been backed into a corner over No10’s refusal to boost their paltry pay rises

Daily Mirror

Ulster University seeks graduates with a disability to help improve job prospects

The programme is open to ambitious recent graduates with a disability, who want to level up in their career prospects

Belfast Live

Emotional scenes as parents of surrogate children weep with joy at news they can become legal parents

'Families like mine now have a way to have legal recognition for our position as the only second parents that our children have ever known'

Irish Mirror

Launceston General Hospital report makes 92 recommendations after abuse scandal

What happened to Zoe Duncan at the Launceston General Hospital is something her sister Amanda wants no family to endure. And now a report on the hospital is in, changes must be made, she says.

ABC News

Ambulance service crippled by demand leaving paramedics pleading for help

Hundreds of people were reportedly waiting to be taken to hospital in Manchester while many ambulances are stuck waiting to hand over patients to doctors

Daily Mirror

Mackay Base Hospital newborn baby deaths to be investigated by coroner

The deaths of three babies at Mackay Base Hospital will be investigated as devastated parents detail their struggles since the heartbreaking tragedies.

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The Guardian - UK

Who do you believe: the brilliant NHS staff who treated my cancer, or ministers who spin and lie?

A harrowing Guardian report depicts the struggle to deliver care, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The National (Scotland)

Works begins on Scottish island's first new village for a century

The community-led project will see 17 affordable homes built as part of the wider Kilbeg Village development ...

Wales Online

NHS treating fewer patients than in 2019 amid 'worrying signs' of long-term Covid hit

New study reveals that the number of beds available for non-coronavirus hospital admissions is still lower than pre-pandemic levels

ABC News

Voluntary euthanasia advocates wish Qld laws had come sooner as state prepares for January rollout

Weeks out from Queensland's new voluntary assisted dying laws taking effect, advocates say too many people have suffered "ugly" deaths because change took so long.

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Hotel nurses concerned for patient safety

A nurse in Victoria's hotel quarantine program has described fearing they couldn't keep returned travellers safe with the number of staff they had.

The Independent UK

Capitol police officer injured in January 6 riot resigns so he can focus on ‘physically and mentally’ healing

Multiple officers suffered severe injuries during Capitol riot

AAP

Hospital sex-abuse report rebukes leaders

Tasmania's government will implement all 92 recommendations of a review which found shortcomings at a hospital examined at a child sexual abuse inquiry.

The Independent UK

NHS treating fewer patients amid ‘worrying signs’ of long-term Covid hit – IFS

There are fewer hospital beds available for non-Covid purposes, according to IFS analysis.

Daily Mirror

Heartbreaking tribute to 'darling' boy who died from Strep A after being told it was flu

Jax Albert Jefferys died aged five on December 1, before it was later confirmed he passed away from the infection after the family sought medical assistance three times

The Independent UK

Patients with major blood loss to get ‘whole blood transfusions’ in new trial

Health officials have launched a trial of ‘whole blood’ transfusions.

ABC News

Labor MP Josh Burns breaks ranks and calls for reversal on plans to cut subsidised psychological visits

The federal government is under pressure from its own backbench to reverse a decision to halve subsidised psychological visits.

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