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Barclay admits 40 new hospitals pledge will cover ‘a range’ of building work

The Health Secretary said the pledge would involve work including refurbishments and the development of new wings.

The Independent UK

Barclay refuses to give deadline for long-promised NHS workforce plan

But the Health Secretary said it will be published ‘very shortly’.

The Independent UK

Tory Health Secretary confronted by junior doctor on live TV as 72-hour strike looms

The British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee co-chair Vivek Trivedi challenged the Tory minister after he suggested doctors were being unreasonable

Daily Mirror

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Minister admits supermarket price-cap plan will have no 'element of compulsion'

Downing Street drawing up proposals to get retailers charging the lowest possible amount for basic products

Wales Online

Steve Barclay admits 40 new hospitals will not be built by 2030

Health secretary says projects instead involve ‘a range of things’ including new wings and refurbishments

The Guardian - UK

Health secretary admits 40 new hospitals are actually ‘a range’ of building works

Steve Barclay came under pressure to clarify the manifesto pledge, made under former prime minister Boris Johnson, to build the ‘new’ hospitals by 2030

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak ‘to urge supermarkets to cap price of food basics’

Downing Street is drawing up plans to encourage supermarkets to introduce voluntary price caps on food staples in a bid to help with the cost-of-living crisis.

Evening Standard

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UK health minister says will not negotiate on pay with nurses' union

Britain's health minister, Steve Barclay, said on Sunday that the government would not negotiate on pay with the nurses' union, as the threat of further strikes looms.

Reuters

Campaigners hail success as Government commit to funding new Whipps Cross hospital

New facility to be built after MPs and local residents raised concerns over ‘dilapidated’ Leytonstone hospital

Evening Standard

6 bits of bad news slipped out by the Tories as MPs go on half-term break

On the final day of Parliament before recess - dubbed ‘Take Out the Trash Day’ - the Government rushed out a flurry of announcements. Here's what you might have missed...

Daily Mirror

Broken pledge over 40 new hospitals will leave NHS ‘crumbling’, ministers told

Health experts and MPs criticise Steve Barclay’s delays to some projects and failure to offer sufficient funding

The Guardian - UK

Tories told to 'come clean' after admitting delays to 8 hospitals promised by 2030

Health Secretary Steve Barclay admitted that some of the original facilities will not be completed by the end of the decade as focus is shifting to five hospitals deemed 'not safe to operate beyond 2030'

Daily Mirror

Government committed to building 40 new hospitals by 2030 – Barclay (cloned)

Some hospitals at risk of collapse and in need of an upgrade will now be added to the programme instead of some where work is delayed.

The Independent UK

Labour claims Tories won’t meet pledge to build 40 new hospitals by 2030

Pledge ‘simply not going to happen’, says shadow health secretary Wes Streeting

The Independent UK

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Government ditches pledge to rebuild St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington by 2030

Trust warns ‘healthcare of hundreds of thousands’ of Londoners could be at risk after Government postpones works to three London hospitals beyond 2030

The Independent UK

Government committed to building 40 new hospitals by 2030 – Barclay

Some hospitals at risk of collapse and in need of an upgrade will now be added to the programme instead of some where work is delayed.

The Guardian - UK

Tory pledge to build 40 ‘new’ England hospitals likely to be delayed until after 2030

Delay to key pledge of last Conservative manifesto likely to anger MPs who wanted action before next election

Evening Standard

NHS trusts record more than 35,000 cases of rape and sexual misbehaviour in five years

Investigation reveals ‘shocking’ epidemic of sexual assault and harassment in health service

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Health Secretary Steve Barclay and nursing union leader Pat Cullen to meet as pay row continues

The Royal College of Nursing, that is holding its annual conference, has warned that strikes could go on until Christmas

The Independent UK

Review into mental health deaths should become public inquiry, chair urges government

Current deaths review ‘cannot effectively’ meet requirements without statutory powers

The Independent UK

Mothers whose daughters died call for national allergy tsar

Natasha Ednan-Laperouse and Shante Turay-Thomas died from severe allergic reactions.

Wales Online

Allergy tragedy mums say daughters' deaths should never have happened

Tanya Ednan-Laperouse and Emma Turay have told Health Secretary Steve Barclay to appoint a leader to act as a champion for people with allergies

Evening Standard

Number of people waiting for NHS treatment rises to record high

Waiting list grows despite PM’s pledge that it would fall by April of this year

Evening Standard

London cancer treatment target missed again despite improvement, says MacMillan

Charity says target has only been met for nine months out of 38 since 2020

The Guardian - UK

Pledge to reduce NHS backlog has been broken, Steve Barclay admits

NHS in England missed target that patients waiting 18 months for an operation would be treated by April

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