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Friday briefing: The deepening turmoil over the assisted dying bill

In today’s newsletter: As MPs return to the Commons today to debate the amended bill, emotions are running high and some are switching sides

The Guardian - UK

Voices: The burden of assisted dying should not be placed on doctors like us

COMMENT: Adding responsibility for administering the lethal drugs required to end someone’s life to the duties of a doctor is so counter to our overall purpose that it risks undermining the defining role of the profession, argue physicians Zoë Fritz and Sally Barker

The Independent UK

Scot tackles 100km desert trek two years after heart transplant

Fraser Wilson, 48, said the operation has been ‘life-changing’ for him.

The Independent UK

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NHS gave private firms record £216m to examine X-rays in 2024

Failure to recruit NHS radiologists risks creating vicious cycle whereby doctors are drawn to private work, royal college says

The Guardian - UK

UK women driven to unregulated sperm donors by high treatment costs, experts say

One unregistered sperm donor who claims to have fathered 180 children has sought access to four children in the UK

The Guardian - UK

MP warns parts of crumbling London hospital may have to close as development works delayed

Large parts of St Helier are in severe disrepair, with lifts often out of order, leaking ceilings forcing and sinking floors forcing the hospital to temporarily close wards

Evening Standard

Patient of suspended hospital surgeon says she wants answers

Chloe Humphries, of Newmarket, Suffolk, said that in 2015 surgeon Kuldeep Stohr operated on her knee.

Evening Standard

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Criminals sent directly to jail hits six-year high amid summer disorder

The figures come just a day after the Justice Secretary announced changes to prison recall as a further emergency measure on prison overcrowding.

Evening Standard

Scotland’s largest NHS union accepts 8% pay increase

Unison said the Government must now act to ensure the wage hike gets into pay packets ‘as soon as possible’.

Evening Standard

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Marie Claire

Mental health trust boss offers apology to families at inquiry into deaths

The Lampard Inquiry, chaired by Baroness Kate Lampard, is examining deaths at NHS-run inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

Evening Standard

What the latest NHS hospital figures for England show

Ambulance response times for the most urgent incidents are their quickest in nearly four years.

Evening Standard

North-east London NHS trust pays nearly £70k over prescription mistakes

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University NHS Trust (BHRUT) paid £68,625 to five claimants

Evening Standard

NHS hospital waiting lists rise for first time in seven months

New figures show an estimated 7.42 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of March

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Evening Standard

NHS waiting list for hospital treatment rises for first time in seven months

The data will be a blow to Labour, which is introducing ‘carrot and stick reforms’ for NHS leaders.

The Independent UK

NHS bosses told to reduce wait times or face pay cuts

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Evening Standard

Unite members accept 8% NHS pay deal

The deal includes a measure to ensure pay rises remain at least 1% above inflation.

Marie Claire

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The Guardian - UK

Bosses of hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise

Health secretary instigates ‘carrot and stick’ policy for England that will award bonuses for cutting waiting times

The Independent UK

Hundreds of A&E patients needlessly die every week while waiting for hospital beds

More than 1.7 million patients waited 12 hours or more to be admitted, discharged or transferred from A&E

The Independent UK

NHS bosses who fail to cut waiting times to have their pay docked

NHS bosses could be paid £45,000 to move to struggling areas, while underperforming executives could have their pay cut by £15,000

The Independent UK

Top doctor warns government ‘neglecting’ old people as figures suggest thousands of A&E patients died waiting for bed

Almost 17,000 patients are likely to have died needlessly in A&E last year, analysis warns

The Independent UK

Expand volunteer programme to bolster NHS workforce, charity says

Around 107,000 NHS secondary care roles in England are vacant.

The Independent UK

320 A&E patients die needlessly every week linked to hospital bed waits – study

Last year, more than 1.7 million patients waited 12 hours or more to be admitted, discharged or transferred from A&E, the RCEM said.

The Independent UK

Children waiting two years for critical gender care as numbers trapped on waiting lists soar

Waiting lists for children’s gender services have risen by 12 per cent, figures show

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