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Swinney will ‘absolutely’ serve five years as First Minister if SNP wins in 2026

The SNP leader made clear he would serve a full five-year term if his party wins next May’s Scottish Parliament election.

The Independent UK

Ministers admit failing to assess impact of thousands of NHS job cuts in England

Exclusive: Failure to assess impact of axing thousands of NHS managers described by critics as reckless

The Guardian - UK

Hunt urges Streeting to reconsider cuts to ringfenced funding for maternity care

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the changes will ‘give more freedom and more flexibility’ to independent care boards.

Evening Standard

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Swinney accused of ‘treading water’ over Government plans for the next year

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney insisted his programme for government is a ‘programme for a better Scotland’.

Evening Standard

TV Doctor Reveals £15 'Lifesaving' Device Everyone Over 40 Needs to Combat the 'Silent Killer'

Dr Amir Khan, the NHS doctor you’ll often spot on ITV’s Lorraine and Good Morning Britain, is sounding the alarm on something many of us overlook – our blood pressure.

The Fashion Central

When a cocktail was the best medicine

Brief letters: Brompton cocktails | Guest slippers | An eye on NHS costs | Dunking digestives | Right side up

The Guardian - UK

SNP’s ‘flimsy’ programme for government offers ‘more of the same’, says Findlay

John Swinney’s plans were also criticised by Scottish Labour leader who asked the First Minister: ‘Is that it?’

Evening Standard

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Welsh Labour first minister says she is ‘losing patience’ with Starmer’s policies

Eluned Morgan says her government will move ‘to the left’ and urges UK Labour to reconsider budget cuts

The Guardian - UK

‘Social care will collapse’: Independent readers react to family visa crackdown

YOUR VIEWS: Readers weigh in on the impact of new care worker visa rules – from fears of a collapsing sector and rising costs to calls for better wages and homegrown training to fill the gap

The Independent UK

Half of Reform voters say local election vote was a protest in clear warning to Starmer and Badenoch

After disastrous local election results, Tory MPs hoping to install Robert Jenrick as new leader risk being disappointed as research suggest he would not beat Nigel Farage’s Reform

The Independent UK

Pressure on Starmer over winter fuel cash squeeze after local election results

Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan called for a ‘rethink’ while Cabinet minister Wes Streeting acknowledged voters’ unhappiness over the policy.

Evening Standard

Doctor ballot for strike action is ‘premature’ and ‘unnecessary’, says Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said doctors have now got a Government that is sympathetic to the pressures they are facing.

Evening Standard

‘The best is still to come’ – Wes Streeting promises sweeping NHS improvements

The Government has announced £100 million to refurbish and expand GP surgeries.

Evening Standard

Former MP who punched constituent blames Starmer for by-election loss

Mike Amesbury said it is time for Labour MPs to challenge the government over policies such as the winter fuel cuts

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Evening Standard

Long A&E waits for people who have paid into NHS all their lives ‘appalling’

A report from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine shows that rising numbers of elderly and frail people are enduring very long waits.

TechRadar

How to build a National Data Library

The UK's proposed National Data Library will be the largest data unification project ever undertaken by any country.

Evening Standard

Winter fuel squeeze anger was factor in Labour election losses – Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the Government was ‘reflecting on what voters told us last Thursday’.

The Independent UK

Women ‘should not be erased’ from NHS guidance – Streeting

NHS.uk says cervical screening is ‘offered to women and people with a cervix’.

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The Independent UK

Allowing staff to refuse to take part in assisted dying ‘positive development’

But Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the amendment ‘does not change’ his view on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as a whole.

The Independent UK

Starmer rules out winter fuel allowance U-turn despite local elections backlash

Ministers defend stripping the payments from 10 million pensioners, claiming the move has allowed Labour to invest in the NHS

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting: I will defend the tax rises funding 8.3m GP appointments

Exclusive: Health secretary to challenge Reform on how it would fund investment in NHS

The Independent UK

Oldest patients facing longest waits in A&E as doctors say system is ‘failing our most vulnerable’

The ‘degrading’ treatment of the elderly is being called ‘an alarming threat to patient safety’

The Independent UK

Density of new start-ups soars across north of England, says research

GoDaddy UK and Ireland analysis shows that 40% of the areas with the fastest growth in the density of start-ups and small business were in the North.

Evening Standard

Swinney to put ‘serious action’ over the NHS at the heart of his plans

The Scottish First Minister will announce his Government’s plans and priorities for the coming year in a flagship statement to Holyrood on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Swinney says campaigning in Holyrood by-election is ‘tough’

The SNP leader has been campaigning in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonhouse, where a vote is being held after the death of Christina McKelvie.

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