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NHS rolls out plans to find more infected blood victims

People will be asked about their blood transfusion history before 1996 when they register with a GP.

The Independent UK · May 18, 2025

More than 400 with heart valve condition dying each year on NHS waiting list, research finds

Exclusive: Cardiologist Dr Jon Byrne warns true death toll could be 800 a year as not all specialist centres shared data‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting vital procedure

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2025

Warning NHS making same mistakes that led to Mid Staffs scandal as bosses ‘consider cutting hospital beds’

Community services for children and mental health support for cancer patients axed amid savings drive

The Independent UK · May 18, 2025

MP ‘will not be complicit’ in approving assisted dying law in safeguards call

Labour MP Naz Shah said: ‘I will not be complicit in that and I hope this House will not be either.’

The Independent UK · May 16, 2025

NHS landlord Assura attracts new offer from PHP as bidding war heats up

PHP’s offer outbids the £1.61 billion takeover price offered by US private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stonepeak Partners.

Evening Standard · May 16, 2025

Assisted dying: five questions that need answering before it can work in practice

An attempt to make assisted dying legal in England in Wales continues to make its way through parliament, with MPs currently scheduled to have a final vote on the bill in June.

The Conversation · May 16, 2025

Digested week: Keir, immigrants have made this stranger’s life immeasurably better

There may be a grownup conversation to be had about immigration, but the PM’s depressing speech wasn’t it. Plus, Trump’s flying freebie

The Guardian - UK · May 16, 2025

‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers

Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretaries

The Guardian - UK · May 16, 2025

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 · May 16, 2025

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 · May 16, 2025