The Latest Breaking News from NHS

Editorial: New appointments for urgent and complex care should be welcomed. But NHS dentistry requires more radical surgery

Shocking report highlights how some patients are waiting up to two years to get specialist help

Letters: Richard Torbett and Nick Dearden respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on Keir Starmer’s medicines agreement with Donald Trump

Meta-analysis of studies involving over 65,000 people showed only ‘high risk’ individuals saw benefits from cutting saturated fats from diets, scientists say.

If not, academics say people will continue to get sick and die while schools close and hospitals are overwhelmed

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over resident doctors’ pre-Christmas strike, with some condemning its timing amid record flu cases as dangerous and self-indulgent, while others defend it as a justified response to years of pay erosion and NHS underfunding.

Junior doctors in England announce the longest strike this year. Read about the 6-day walkout, the impact on patients, and the ongoing pay dispute.

Healthwatch England reveals Brits resorting to pulling out own teeth as NHS urgent dental access falters. With fewer regular check-ups and growing inequalities, government pledges extra appointments but faces calls for deeper reforms.

Up to half of the medical workforce in England could stop work at 7am on Wednesday and not return for five days.

It comes as a report suggests dental vouchers worth £150 a year should be introduced in a bid to ‘end the postcode lottery’ of care.

Shailesh Vara is former Conservative Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the UK’s first Hindu MP