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Voices: Sorry, Wes – my A&E is full of people having a mental health crisis

COMMENT: The health secretary is wrong to suggest that doctors are overdiagnosing patients with psychiatric conditions – it’s just not in our own best interest to reach for the prescription pad and sign them off work, says Dr Ammad Butt

The Independent UK

Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK - and what does it cost the NHS?

Mental health disorders are driving the rise in health benefit claims; but is Streeting’s claim of “overdiagnosis” the issue?

The Independent UK

How many people get benefits now and how does the total compare with 20 years ago?

With possible welfare cuts up for debate in the House of Commons today (July 1), here’s a look at how benefits have changed over the years.

Evening Standard

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BBC Viewers Furious as Laura Kuenssberg’s On-Air Habit Sparks Mass Switch-Off

BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg turned fiery today as the presenter locked horns with Health Secretary Wes Streeting over the bombshell announcement that NHS England will be abolished.

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'Embarrassing, painful and socially debilitating': The rare condition that stops people from burping

Social media users and medical specialists have been raising awareness of a rare condition that stops people from burping, but treatment options remain limited and costly.

Euronews

Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?

Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Man with dental phobia faces £25,000 bill to fix teeth after they ‘crumbled away’

He now has just his front and wisdom teeth left

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Scottish patients having to rely on decades-old equipment, says Labour

Figures obtained by the party show NHS Grampian is currently using an X-ray machine that is 27 years old.

Evening Standard

Doctors overdiagnosing mental health conditions, Streeting says, amid expected benefit reforms

Health secretary says too many people are ‘written off’ by welfare system

Evening Standard

Streeting ‘genuinely sorry’ for anxiety over job losses amid war on quangos

The Health Secretary said there will be ‘significant’ job cuts as a result of the Government’s shake-up of NHS administration.

Evening Standard

NHS is ‘addicted to overspending’, warns Wes Streeting as he admits there will be significant job losses

The health secretary suggested hundreds more quangos could be in the firing line, warning that scrapping NHS England was ‘the beginning, not the end’

The Independent UK

How Covid-19 changed the way we die

The pandemic forced many people in England and Wales to reflect how they might die with dignity, and the numbers of those wanting to die at home is on the rise

The Guardian - UK

‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients

Trusts work with the Royal Horticultural Society to create outdoor refuges for staff and patients

The Guardian - UK

JustGiving under fire over ‘astonishing profit margin’ from donations

JustGiving, the fundraising platform, has come under fire over the £30m profit it makes from donations after asking for 17 per cent tips

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Thousands removed from NHS wait lists by Government doctor scheme

Doctors are being sent to areas with high economic inactivity

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Keir Starmer Announces Shocking NHS Shake-Up—What It Means for Patients

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has made a groundbreaking announcement, confirming that NHS England will be abolished as part of a major overhaul of the healthcare system in the UK.

Evening Standard

Best prescription delivery service UK: A convenient way to get your medication

Discover the best prescription delivery services in the UK as we review top providers and their offerings

The Independent UK

Deploying top doctors in high joblessness areas cuts NHS wait lists – Streeting

The Health Secretary started the scheme in September, tasking the clinicians with improving care in 20 areas.

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The Guardian - UK

It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state

Smarter, more productive, government will require more than yet another bonfire of the quangos

The Guardian - UK

We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?

GPs are increasingly directing vulnerable people to practitioners in a booming industry with no oversight

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: NHS job cuts may exacerbate health service’s challenges

Staff shortages, obesity and an ageing population all pose deep questions for which structural reorganisation has no answer

The Guardian - UK

Cuts to welfare. Cuts to international aid. Has Labour lurched too far to the right?

People on benefits are worried and some MPs are talking of ‘cruelty’. Is Keir Starmer’s plan to cut public spending a betrayal of his party’s values?

The Independent UK

Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet

Expert clinicians are being dispatched to areas with high levels of unemployment

The Independent UK

Streeting: I’ll get rid of more NHS quangos and slash bloated bureaucracy

Keir Starmer announces he will be abolishing NHS England to avoid ‘duplication’

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting warns hundreds more health quangos could face axe

Health secretary says the scrapping of NHS England is ‘beginning, not end’ of bid to slash ‘bloated bureaucracy’

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