Government ‘burying head in sand’ over health inequality, says bishop of London Exclusive: UK’s most senior female bishop calls for long-awaited white paper promising ‘bold action’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022
Truss and Kwarteng will face fury of Tory MPs in week of crisis meetings The PM and chancellor will try to stop panic spreading through the party after their high-risk economic plan threatens a ‘death spiral’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022
NHS bosses’ plea to politicians: no more targets Hospitals struggle to cope even without more performance measures, say health leaders The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022
Tory civil war grows at conference as Suella Braverman accuses MPs of ‘coup’ Liz Truss finds her party simmering with rebellion and discontent and badly lagging in national polls Evening Standard · Oct 4, 2022
Thérèse Coffey is leaving the UK vulnerable to monkeypox The vaccination programme for gay and bisexual men is simply not enough to protect against future outbreaks, says Ceri Smith of the Terrence Higgins Trust The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2022
UK decision not to purchase more monkeypox vaccines ‘concerning and short-sighted’ A SEXUAL health charity has said the UK Government’s decision to go against the advice of health experts and decline the purchase of additional… The National (Scotland) · Oct 3, 2022
A sombre start at Tory Conference first night parties Parties on the first night of Tory conference were more muted than in previous years. Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2022
Truss’s mini-budget looks likely to cost the Tories the next election Tory MPs fear voters see them as the nasty party again after the prime minister refused to rethink tax cuts for the rich The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022
Thérèse Coffey scraps promised paper on health inequality Exclusive: health secretary has decided not to publish white paper, which was originally intended for publication by last spring The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022
Meet Team Truss, the new No 10 inner circle entering Downing Street The PM has surrounded herself with a like-minded group of field experts and political power brokers who’ve proven their loyalty to her in the past — but who are they? Anne McElvoy looks at the Tories’ fresh new team Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2022
‘It’s extraordinary’: Liz Truss’s low-tax gamble has yet to convince Tory MPs Colleagues ask if the new PM and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s experiment is ‘a stroke of genius – or will blow up the economy’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2022
Who gives a stuff about an Oxford comma? We all should Letters: Thérèse Coffey’s ban on staff using the Oxford comma doesn’t bode well for her tenure, write Ross McQueen and Neil Ferguson The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2022
Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway told to 'stop talking' as Ed Balls is praised Kate said she was being "shouted at" on Friday's Good Morning Britain Liverpool Echo · Sep 23, 2022
Tories usher in their brave new world of half-arsed fantasy With a troubling lack of knowledge and empathy, the enthusiasm of team Truss bodes mightily ill The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 The Guardian view on the NHS: a brutal winter is coming Editorial: Ministers have no plan to deal with rising waiting times that are costing lives and forcing desperate patients to go private
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 What is in Thérèse Coffey’s new NHS plan? Key details from the launch of ‘our plan for patients’ by the health and social care secretary
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 Instead of helping desperate NHS doctors like me, Thérèse Coffey is sticking in the boot Every day we see things that should shame the nation. The health secretary’s solution? Ask the public to pitch in, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke
Manchester Evening News · Sep 22, 2022 'It's just another sticking plaster policy' - despair and fatigue as GPs given more waiting time targets "I think people like Thérèse Coffey need to spend some time in a GP practice"
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 Who’s to blame for 12 years’ desecration of our NHS? Doctors, says Thérèse Coffey Yet another new health secretary has arrived with all kinds of whizzo ideas, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 Health secretary sets up £500m fund to discharge medically fit NHS patients Thérèse Coffey announces measure aimed at freeing up beds in hospitals in England before winter pressures
Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2022 Thérèse Coffey unveils new NHS plan including 7,000 more hospital beds and £500m social care fund But Labour’s Wes Streeting blasts Coffey’s ‘ABCD’ proposals as ‘Sesame Street’
Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2022 Wanted: new transport boss to sort out TfL following Andy Byford’s resignation THE resignation of Andy Byford as London’s Transport Commissioner is a blow for the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and a blow for Londoners. Mr Byford was widely respected, and helped negotiate a funding deal with the Government which partly addresses TfL’s shortfall in revenue due to Covid. Given the frosty relationship…
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 No sanctions if GPs miss two-week target, health secretary suggests Thérèse Coffey describes new goal for offering patient an appointment as ‘expectation’ not guarantee
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022 National insurance increase will be reversed from 6 November, says Kwasi Kwarteng – as it happened The chancellor says the move will save 28m people £330 on average next year
The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022 Patients to get GP appointments within two weeks, says government Government has called for public to ‘do their bit’ and volunteer to support NHS