The Latest Breaking News from NHS

Delaying routine care was least bad of ‘awful options’, Matt Hancock tells Covid inquiry

Inquiry chair challenges ex-health secretary over his assertion NHS was available to all during crisis

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

It was a time for niceties in the Commons. Kemi doesn’t do niceties

The G20? Cop29? Totally pointless, said the Tory leader. World leaders getting up themselves and a load of virtue-signalling

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

The Guardian view on physician associates: the NHS must level with the public

Editorial: Wes Streeting’s review must lead to greater clarity if confidence is to be rebuilt

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

Matt Hancock branded ‘liar’ after revealing England was hours away from running out of PPE during pandemic

Matt Hancock told the Covid-19 inquiry there were only hours to go at one point, until gowns ran out

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2024

Assisted dying: Mother with cancer feels ‘betrayed’ by Streeting’s comments

Clare Turner said she wanted ‘choice’ and a ‘good death’, but without assisted dying she would ‘have to be alone’.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

Woman reveals life-changing transformation after having ‘skin-crawlingly’ itchy lump removed

Olivia, 28, says the discomfort caused by her keloid felt like ‘torture’

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2024

More than 100 maternity cases being reviewed in criminal investigation

Nottinghamshire Police have been receiving information from Donna Ockenden’s independent maternity review.

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2024

Risk Scottish hospices 'may have to turn people away' amid funding crisis

SCOTTISH hospices have said there is a risk they may have to start turning patients away amid an “insurmountable funding gap”.

The National (Scotland) · Nov 21, 2024

OPINION - The Standard View: Misuse of Captain Tom foundation must not detract from Britain's culture of giving

For all the horrors and hardships of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were heroes too. Those who saved lives on the frontline of the NHS, or continued to go to work and perform their critical jobs while the rest of us stayed at home. Then there was Captain Sir Tom Moore,…

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

Matt Hancock: My job was to shield NHS from political interference during Covid

The former health secretary told the Covid-19 inquiry that interference from Number 10 caused ‘incredible difficulties’ at times.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024