The Latest Breaking News from Steve Barclay

Barclay ‘keen’ to speak with nurses’ union but no direct response to 10% offer

Health Secretary Steve Barclay toured Watford General Hospital on Friday.

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2023

Ministers could help the patients dying in NHS hospital corridors right now – they just choose not to

Be under no illusion: the hundreds of avoidable deaths in the NHS every week are the result of political decisions, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK · Jan 6, 2023

Junior doctors to vote on plans to hold three-day strike in row over pay

Threat of three further days of NHS disruption comes ahead of 9 January ballot

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2023

Health Secretary to sign cancer treatments deal with leading pharmaceutical company

Steve Barclay is due to sign a memorandum of understanding with BioNTech on Friday.

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2023

Nursing union ‘could accept 10% pay deal’ to prevent further strikes

General Secretary Pat Cullen says she could ‘meet Government half way’

Evening Standard · Jan 5, 2023

Government claims more than £130 million after suing pandemic gown supplier

Lawyers representing Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay have outlined detail of a High Court claim against PPE Medpro.

The Independent UK · Jan 5, 2023

We showed 50 Brits a picture of NHS scourge Steve Barclay - only FIVE knew who he was

Despite repeated warnings the NHS is near collapse, the health secretary has been nowhere to be seen and barely anyone in Liverpool or Croydonw knew his name or recognised his picture when asked by The Mirror

Daily Mirror · Jan 5, 2023

Missing health chief Steve Barclay spotted as pressure mounts over NHS crisis

Health Secretary Steve Barclay has been accused of being all-but absent during recent weeks, as NHS staff took historic industrial action and ambulances queue up outside hospitals

Daily Mirror · Jan 5, 2023

The Standard View: No10 must wake up on collapsing NHS

On the day we report London’s A&E departments facing a crisis some experts are calling the “worst” they have seen, the Government risks giving the impression it is in danger of losing control of the situation. Health minister Steve Barclay appears to be in denial, while Rishi Sunak’s spokesman has…

Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2023

Crisis-hit NHS ‘can’t keep up’ with too few staff to treat patients safely, warn senior MPs

Demand for healthcare has gone ‘through the roof,’ warns Tory health committee chair Steve Brine

Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2023