The Latest Breaking News from NHS

New plan would ‘transform’ end of life care for 100,000 in England and Wales

Palliative care commission set up to provide high-quality, holistic support following assisted dying vote

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024

Only proper funding can rescue social care

Letters: Inadequate funding of adult social care in England has a harmful knock-on effect on the NHS, writes Laura Davies

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024

Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human

Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024

Keir Starmer to set out ‘plan for change’ with ‘milestones’ for key missions

The milestones will run alongside public sector reform, Downing Street said.

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2024

Starmer to pledge cuts to NHS waiting lists and crime in major reset for Labour

Ambitious targets to improve voters’ lives come amid plunging approval ratings for government and loss of transport secretary

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2024

Health board resolves ‘critical incident’ caused by over-capacity hospitals

A small number of patients with non life-threatening medical conditions were sent to other hospitals within the NHS Grampian region.

Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2024

Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it

Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patients

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2024

NHS Grampian accepting patients again after ‘board level critical incident’

Neither hospital has been below 100% occupancy since September.

Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2024

Alder Hey children’s hospital explores ‘data breach’ after ransomware claims

Screenshots purporting to be from systems of Liverpool NHS health facility have been posted on dark web

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2024

OPINION - We must face the truth: these sky-high immigration figures will have profound consequences for Britain

A million is a nice round figure, so consider this: in the year ending in June this year some 1.2 million people came to live in Britain. More than a million of them came from outside Europe. That’s quite a big deal, no, for one year? To employ the usual…

Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2024