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

Some 157 children on the national waiting list were aged younger than 10, data shows.

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Among 274 healthy research participants from the US aged 65 and over, 40% declined to receive their personal risk estimates – despite having initially expressed an interest in doing so.

Nurses said the trend of people travelling abroad for procedures such as weight loss surgery and dental amendments is likely to grow.

Laura Burr is now campaigning for mandatory NHS health checks for young adults

Public accounts committee called the record sum ‘jaw-dropping’ and criticised inaction to reduce errors in a damning report

Committee warns that Department of Health ‘lacks a grip’ on the state of its finances as NHS pays out £12bn for clinical negligence claims in five years

New research finds Wegovy can reduce risk of heart attack, early death and stroke within three months of treatment

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The public accounts committee points out that the health service pays out nearly 2 per cent of its annual budget to compensate for clinical negligence. But that does not deal with the underlying cause of the problem