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Last chance for under-50s to get Covid booster: Find out if you're eligible

Britons only have a few days to get their final top-up jab. After February 12, the booster will only be offered to those considered to be at risk of serious illness.

Daily Mirror

People struggling to get appointments with GPs as more new houses built

Go ahead for more properties will put even more pressure on GPs

Daily Record

Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater admits using private healthcare as NHS struggles

Slater, a Scottish Government minister, published her tax returns this week along with other party leaders.

Daily Record

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5 cheap and easy ways to support your mental health this winter

As professional help becomes increasingly hard to get, what small things might improve your mental wellbeing? By Imy Brighty-Potts.

The Independent UK

Cutting Edinburgh schools speech therapy 'will hit the most vulnerable hardest'

The head of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in Scotland has raised concerns about council proposals to cut £3.4m from speech therapy services.

Edinburgh Live

Robots to perform hip and knee surgery in first Welsh clinical trial

The robotic trial will be tested within Hywel Dda University Health Board, which manages healthcare in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire

Wales Online

Ben Whishaw: We’re all more fluid than is really discussed

The role of the only male in Women Talking, a film about the awful things men do, required a rare talent. Enter Ben Whishaw, who tellsRichard Godwin about his nuanced take on modern masculinity, acting with the Queen and why the NHS is being ‘deliberately wrecked’

Evening Standard

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NHS apologises after mum spent final months in pain and suffering

Her symptoms had not been spotted earlier despite hospital visits and tests

Wales Online

NHS in Bristol region faced ‘horrific winter’ with almost three-hour ambulance waits

December saw high levels of infection, industrial action and long delays

Bristol Post

SNP trade union group call for pause to National Care Service plans

UNIONS, think tanks and charities – along with an SNP-affiliated organisation – have written to the First Minister to ask that plans for a…

The National (Scotland)

Millions of mental health patients ‘facing NHS delays or missing out’

Auditors said NHS mental health services ‘are under continued and increasing pressure’, with many users are reporting poor experiences

The Independent UK

Drop in nursing course applicants sparks concern over recruitment crisis

‘Cost of living factors’ are making prospective students re-evaluate their choice of subject based on future career prospects, a Ucas boss suggested

The Independent UK

University staff and NHS physiotherapists to go on strike

Industrial unrest continues to sweep the country in bitter disputes over pay, staffing and conditions

Wales Online

Millions with mental health needs not seeking NHS help, watchdog says

National Audit Office praises expansion of care but says soaring demand means delays will persist

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The Independent UK

Millions ‘face waits for NHS mental health treatment, or miss out’

Auditors said NHS mental health services ‘are under continued and increasing pressure’, with many users are reporting poor experiences.

The Independent UK

Degree course applicants drop with fewer people signing up to study nursing

‘Cost of living factors’ are making prospective students re-evaluate their choice of subject based on future career prospects, a Ucas boss suggested.

Daily Mirror

Student nurse applications tumble by almost a third since height of Covid pandemic

Just 33,570 people applied to a UK nurse undergraduate course by the January deadline, down from 41,220 in 2022 and 46,040 in 2021

The Independent UK

Genetic test to prevent newborns going deaf recommended for NHS use

Clinical watchdog Nice has conditionally recommended the use of the genedrive kit.

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Liverpool Echo

Parents doing 'everything' they can for son, 5, to live without constant pain

Despite the pain he suffers, Oliver Forsyth is a "happy little boy"

The Independent UK

NHS ‘under threat’ from ‘covert privatisation’, says Stephen Fry

The former QI host was backing a protest by campaign group We Own It who have criticised the use of private healthcare companies in the NHS.

Daily Record

NHS Forth Valley put improvement plan in place after ministers take oversight

The changes were required after the health board was moved into Level Four of the performance framework after poor performance last year.

The Independent UK

Mental health sick days for NHS staff surge – and cost more than £460m in a year

“Illness, ongoing strikes and staff shortages are leaving workers exhausted’ warns Alun Baker CEO of GoodShape

Belfast Live

Concerns over future of dentistry in Northern Ireland amid NHS exodus into private sector

Many patients say they have been unable to find any available dentists to treat them

Wales Online

The full details of the 7% pay rise offer made to NHS workers in Wales to end the strikes

This is the final offer from the Welsh Government

Edinburgh Live

West Lothian patients struggle for GP appointments in building boom

It's already difficult enough trying to see a GP in northern Livingston, a local community council claims and 132 new homes will only make things worse.

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