Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from NHS

'Housebound' woman leaves home for first time in four years after 12 stone weight loss

Sabrina Lee, from Liverpool, struggled to walk from her living room to her bedroom at her highest weight of 29 stone

Wales Online

What the papers say – January 9

Harry’s television appearances and the Prime Minister’s negotiations with NHS workers feature on the front pages.

The Independent UK

NHS heroes crying in car parks as patients that could have been saved pass away

Up to 500 people a week are dying because of delays in emergency care as demand reaches breaking point

Wales Online

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

England rushes to discharge hospital patients to ease bed-blocking crisis

England's National Health Service (NHS) aims to begin discharging thousands of patients into care homes and other settings in the next few weeks in an effort to free up desperately needed beds during one of its toughest ever winters.

Reuters

Patients missing appointments because of travel cost fears, says watchdog

A rising number of people have changed the way they use health and care services due to the rising cost of living, according to Healthwatch England.

The Independent UK

Just 4% of men applying to be sperm donors end up donating – study

Figures released in November show that more than half of men (52%) newly registered in the UK as sperm donors are from overseas.

The Independent UK

Junior doctors vote on whether to walkout in March in row over pay

The BMA has told the Government if there is a yes vote, junior doctors will begin their action with a 72-hour ‘full walkout’ in March.

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

£200 million to buy care home beds in bid to ease NHS crisis

Health Secretary Steve Barclay will announce the strategy on Monday as the Government comes under intense pressure to alleviate the crisis in the NHS.

The Independent UK

Care providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospitals

Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitation

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak may consider one-off payment to end nurses’ strikes

PM for first time signals willingness to help with cost of living as ministers prepare for talks with health unions

The Guardian - UK

Teenager tragically dies just weeks after going to the GP with back pain

The 19-year-old was found to be suffering from an aggressive cancer

Wales Online

Keir Starmer: ‘I’m against austerity. But we’re going to have to be fiscally disciplined’

The Labour leader is keen to emphasise he would be a prudent PM despite inheriting cash-starved public services

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak sparks ‘chink of optimism’ over NHS pay ahead of showdown talks

Union leaders express cautious ‘hope’ ahead of discussions with health secretary

The Independent UK

In hospital, I saw first-hand how the NHS has been vandalised

Letters: The exhausted faces of staff will stay with me for ever, says Michael Newman, while Rachel Curtis was left terrified after taking her daughter to an overcrowded A&E

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak accused of 'misleading public' in TV clash as nurse pay talks kick off

Rishi Sunak appeared to finally open the door to nurses getting more money this year - but a union chief slapped him down for misrepresenting talks 'on almost every level'

Liverpool Echo

Man who thought he had a bug was days away from organ failure

The Liverpool councillor received a shock diagnosis after feeling ill over Christmas

Wales Online

Cigarette sales could be banned under Labour

Smoking costs the health service billions every year and a New Zealand-style gradual ban could be explored, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said

Wales Online

The 12 symptoms of the new strain of Covid driving infections

If you are showing some or all of these signs, you may well have it

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Manchester Evening News

Tragedy as son, 19, dies three weeks after he went to the doctors with back pain

Teenager Carl Scott was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer

The Guardian - UK

Sweeping social care reforms can wait – homes need money and workers right now

Hospitals can’t discharge patients because councils don’t have the funds to facilitate care afterwards. It’s a perfect storm of neglect, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Evening Standard

NHS staff ‘could be offered pay increase if they accept radical reforms’

Health Secretary Steve Barclay has suggested a ‘constructive approach’ to pay negotiations with striking health workers, with increases on the table if the unions will agree to efficiency savings to make higher salaries more ‘affordable’

The Independent UK

Crisis in A&E medicine cannot be blamed on pandemic, warns senior medic

Royal College of Emergency Medicine president Adrian Boyle was among health leaders who attended the Prime Minister’s winter crisis talks.

The Guardian - UK

‘Not really relevant’: Rishi Sunak refuses to say if he uses private healthcare

PM urged to ‘come clean’ amid suggestions he is out of touch with millions who face long NHS waits

The National (Scotland)

'It's not a panacea': Humza Yousaf rejects calls for army to plug NHS staffing hole

The Health Secretary also rejected claims that the Scottish Government had done “no resilience planning” ahead of winter.

Evening Standard

NHS to move thousands of patients to care homes

Health chiefs believe between 2,000 and 3,000 hospital beds could be cleared, allowing more capacity for urgent care

1 … 592 593 594 595

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Health and Social Care

156 stories

British Medical Association

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

46 stories

Care England

37 stories

University of Sheffield

33 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.