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What is the situation in the UK with flu this winter?

The rate of hospital admissions for flu has overtaken those for people with Covid-19 for the first time since the pandemic began.

The Independent UK

Every care home in England visited by coronavirus and flu vaccine teams – NHS

Some 15,019 care homes across the country have been visited by vaccination teams, NHS England said.

The Independent UK

Scramble to free up hospital beds ahead of ambulance strike

NHS bosses warn of ’extensive disruption’ as mass walkouts loom

The Independent UK

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'As the NHS struggles the Tories should do everything they can to broker fair pay deal'

As the NHS battles with rising flu and Covid rates, its nurses have been forced to go out on strike to get a fair pay deal so the government should be doing all it can to broker a deal

Daily Mirror

‘Macho’ Barclay is hampering the settlement of nurses’ dispute, says RCN leader

The Health Secretary has been accused of undervaluing the work of nurses because it is a ‘90% female profession’.

The Independent UK

Tories 'put Unionism before the NHS' with attack on Budget tax rises

SCOTLAND’S struggling health services cannot improve without tax increases for higher earners, the Health Secretary has said, as he claimed…

The National (Scotland)

First Dates star Fred Sirieix gives health update from hospital bed

Fred had undergone major surgery

Liverpool Echo

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Hospitals urged to free up beds ahead of ambulance crew strikes

Ambulance crews in England are set to walk out for two days on December 21 and 28 over pay.

The Independent UK

16,000 appointments postponed during nurses’ strike, NHS data shows

Some 10,000 staff in England, as well as nurses in Wales and Northern Ireland, took part in the 12-hour action in a bitter dispute over pay.

The Independent UK

Strike calendar - all walkouts planned until the end of December

All the dates of strike action and stoppages across the NHS, trains, buses and Royal Mail

Chronicle Live

Strep A cases in your area as 24 children among UK dead

NHS leaders worried as cases climb alongside flu surge

The Independent UK

Ministers warned cancer survival rates could fall due to NHS staff and pay crises

Exclusive: Head of Cancer Research UK says waiting lists for care could get even longer unless health service’s problems are fixed

The Guardian - UK

Up to 2,500 troops could cover striking public sector staff at £10m-a-week cost

Up to 2,500 troops are being readied to cover for Border Force, NHS staff and firefighters going out on strike - and they could cost £4,000 per soldier per week

Daily Mirror

NHS, DWP, post and train strike dates from now until February

DVSA and other staff will also walk out on dates in the coming weeks

Liverpool Echo

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The Independent UK

Industrial action expected across the UK: strike dates from now until February

After industrial action by nurses and railway workers in recent days, here is a list of some of the strikes coming up between now and February.

Liverpool Echo

Mum working full time as nurse struggling to afford childcare

The 37-year-old newly qualified nurse said: "You shouldn't be going into debt when you're working, should you?"

Wales Online

All the ITV dramas coming this winter from Nolly, to Without Sin and You & Me

Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, Helena Bonham Carter, and Vicky McClure will star in brand new ITV dramas in the new year

The Independent UK

The Independent’s health and travel correspondents win top journalism awards

Rebecca Thomas and Simon Calder were highly praised by the judges at the British Journalism Awards

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The Guardian - UK

I’m a former Tory minister and a doctor – and I say give striking nurses a better pay deal

NHS workers in Scotland have been offered close to 8%. Surely their colleagues in England deserve as much, says Dan Poulter, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich and a former health minister

Daily Record

Humza Yousaf says tax rises necessary as he claims A&E will recover after winter

Health and social care services in Scotland will be allocated £19 billion in the 2023/24 budget to tackle the pressures facing the NHS

Daily Record

Dumfries and Galloway cancer patient waited nearly a full year to begin treatment

New figures from Public Health Scotland show none of the country's health boards met the Scottish Government's target of 95 per cent of patients beginning treatment within 62 days

Evening Standard

Tory party chair Nadhim Zahawi uses strikes to try and boost party coffers

An email from the former chancellor urges supporters to join up to fight Labour and the unions

Evening Standard

Kettering: Tributes to NHS nurse Anju Asok killed alongside her two children in suspected triple murder

A 52-year-old man remains in custody on suspicion of murder as forensic teams examined the victims’ property

Daily Mirror

Labour's Wes Streeting says NHS is facing 'existential crisis' and needs reform

The Shadow Health Secretary also used a speech at the Policy Exchange think-tank to urge Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay to hold face-to-face talks with unions to avert further strike action from nurses at 'breaking point'

The Independent UK

Nurses strikes: What are the demands and what is the government offering?

Industrial action is biggest by nurses in NHS history

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