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NHS leaders warn life-saving surgeries and urgent cancer care will be hit during doctors’ strike

Exclusive: NHS trusts planning closures and downgrading of A&E departments during strikes, leaked reports reveal

The Independent UK

Quarter of ambulance staff to quit in crisis as over 50% witness deaths from NHS delays

Almost a quarter of ambulance staff now plan to quit jobs according to the shock national NHS Staff Survey - while a separate poll for Channel 4’s Dispatches found 53% of ambulance workers said they had witnessed a death caused by NHS delays

Daily Mirror

NHS waiting list at all-time high in London despite fall in longest wait times

Latest figures show more than a million Londoners waiting for routine treatment

Evening Standard

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NHS waiting list at all-time high despite fall in longest waits

The number of people waiting more than a year and a half to start treatment has dropped by 17%.

The Independent UK

Senior Tory ‘lobbied head of NHS for company paying him £1,600 a month’

‘I have been trying for months to help the NHS through a company I am connected with,’ Steve Brine allegedly wrote

The Independent UK

GP surgeries must give patients appointment slot first time they call to end 8am rush

Following a breakdown in talks with the British Medical Association, NHS England has imposed the strict new stipulation in contracts of employment for family doctors

Chronicle Live

Cancer recovery target could be pushed back a year as record numbers seek care

The backlog of patients waiting longer than 62 days from an urgent GP referral for suspected cancer is currently 23,500.

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End of 8am rush for GP appointment as patients must now get slot FIRST time they call

NHS England has imposed the stipulation in a new contract of employment for family doctors after talks with the British Medical Association broke down

Daily Mirror

New GP contract ‘will see more GPs quit and patients wait longer for care’

NHS England sent a letter to GPs on Monday imposing a new contract.

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock plotted to oust NHS England chief, WhatsApp leak shows

Former health secretary conspired with Dominic Cummings to remove Simon Stevens in early 2020

The Guardian - UK

Less than 3% of NHS England trusts hit key cancer waiting-time target

‘Shocking’ analysis reveals only three trusts managed to treat 85% of patients within two months of urgent referral

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock said ousting NHS England chief executive would be ‘massive improvement’

The former health secretary reportedly discussed Simon Stevens, now Lord Stevens, with Boris Johnson’s then chief adviser Dominic Cummings

Wales Online

Hancock said removing NHS England chief executive would be ‘massive improvement’

Leaked messages revealed a desire to oust Simon Stevens.

The Independent UK

UK health officials spent £42m in a year on ‘golden goodbyes’ and staff payoffs

In the last five years, 324 health sector staff have received payoffs of more than £150,000, according to new figures

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Manchester Evening News

NHS officials concerned about ‘impact of strikes’ on emergency care and wait times

“And we know that there will be greater numbers of staff involved – it will be just under half of our medical workforce"

The Independent UK

NHS worried about ‘impact of doctor strikes on emergency care’

Junior doctors in England are set to walk out for three days from Monday March 13.

The Independent UK

Maternity units must only remove gas and air as a ‘last resort’

Some NHS trusts have come under fire for the way they communicated the message that gas and air would be suspended.

The Independent UK

Prescriptions for opioids ‘fall by almost half-a-million over last four years’

New figures were published by NHS England.

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The Independent UK

NHS in ‘full blown crisis’ and will miss targets to cut cancer waiting lists, MPs warn

’The metrics are going in the wrong direction’

The Guardian - UK

£14bn plan to reduce NHS cancer backlogs in England is failing, MPs say

Treatment waiting times at worst-ever levels as post-Covid recovery programme ‘falling short’

The Independent UK

NHS set to miss key targets, including on cancer, MPs say

A report by MPs said waiting times for cancer treatment are ‘especially worrying’.

Wales Online

23,000 people died last year because of long waits at A&E, say experts

The RCEM found that in 2022 some 1,656,206 patients in England waited 12 hours or more from their time of arrival in an emergency department until they were admitted, transferred or discharged

The Independent UK

A&E delays linked to tens of thousands of patient deaths, top doctors claim

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said the scale was ‘deeply distressing’

The Guardian - UK

One patient dies every 23 minutes in England after long delay in A&E

More than 20,000 people died in 2022 after spending at least 12 hours waiting for care, figures show

The Independent UK

College claims 23,000 excess deaths in 2022 were ‘linked to A&E waits’

A new briefing paper by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine examined long waits and excess deaths.

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