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Keir Starmer accuses Sunak of electioneering with small boats plan

Labour leader points to looming May elections as refugee groups condemn PM’s proposal for deporting asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Critically ill patients rushed to hospital by TAXI due to crippling ambulance shortages

One scandal-hit service ferried 27 critical condition patients by cab. Each person was on a category 1 call, meaning they needed life-saving intervention or resuscitation

Daily Mirror

North East MPs grill health minister and call for non-dom status to be scrapped to fund new doctors and nurses

Chi Onwurah and Grahame Morris were among those to criticise the Government's stewardship of the NHS in a House of Commons debate this week.

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Government ‘cannot be bothered to train its own’ doctors and nurses, Labour says

Health minister Helen Whately said ‘giving people from other countries the chance to work in the NHS is the right thing to do’.

The Independent UK

'The heart ripped out of communities' – Labour shadow health secretary on Gateshead leisure centre closures

Wes Streeting claimed that cash-strapped Labour councils slashing services "get the blame for decisions taken in Westminster by the Conservatives"

Chronicle Live

Labour vows to slash North East NHS waiting lists – but admits crisis can't be solved overnight

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting was in the North East on Saturday and promised he would cut backlogs that have left 99,000 people on waiting lists at Newcastle’s hospitals alone

Chronicle Live

Labour’s reforms will save the struggling NHS from its current crisis

Letter: To prevent millions of working-class patients being left behind in a two-tier healthcare system, we need a change from the status quo, says shadow health secretary Wes Streeting

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Hundreds of GP surgeries closing earlier as they struggle to afford soaring energy bills

One in 10 GP partners have been forced to reduce time with patients and nearly a quarter have stopped recruiting surgery staff due to the cost-of-living crisis.

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay accused of being 'on strike' from addressing NHS crisis

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting slammed Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay for failing to negotiate with health unions and put an end to strikes - as ambulance workers and nurses both walked out today at the same time

Daily Mirror

'The NHS system has turned to mush and desperately needs a reform soon'

Following an experience with his wife in A&E, Sunday People's political editor Nigel Nelson has called for changes to the NHS - because 'a model designed in 1948 doesn’t work for 2023'

Daily Mirror

Wes Streeting plan to use private beds for NHS patients gets backing of Alan Milburn

The shadow Health boss wants to buy excess capacity in the private sector to carry out 233,000 procedures a year to cut NHS waiting lists if Keir Starmer becomes PM

Daily Mirror

£14.9billion wasted on PPE, Covid tests and vaccine that won't be used

Labour’s Wes Streeting said it was 'staggering' the taxpayers’ money had been 'wasted on useless' as he warned the Conservatives can 'never again claim to be the careful stewards of the public finances'

Daily Mirror

Conservatives ‘testing the water’ for ‘two-tier’ NHS, Gordon Brown claims

Ex-PM criticises Sajid Javid for suggesting idea of paid appointments for GPs and A&E

Evening Standard

Scottish Government responds to Sajid Javid's call for GP and A&E fees

THE NHS “must be maintained on its founding principles”, Scotland’s Health Secretary has said after Sajid Javid called for patients to be…

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The Guardian - UK

Labour’s Wes Streeting: ‘Reform is not a Conservative word’

Exclusive: The shadow health secretary discusses his plans for the NHS, not becoming the fun police, and Tories’ handling of strikes

The Guardian - UK

Don’t panic when Starmer refers to NHS ‘reform’. He is thwarting Tory moves to destroy it

For too long, reform has been a ministerial code word for ‘dismantling’. Labour’s approach will be refreshingly different, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting’s plan to turn GPs into salaried NHS staff is misguided

Letters: Salaried GP Joe McFarlane says the Labour proposal is shortsighted and raises several big questions, but Dr Jeremy Bending thinks it would improve quality of care

The Guardian - UK

If patients could bypass GPs to see specialists, the NHS would grind to a halt

Letter: NHS psychiatrist Dr Melanie Knowles agrees that the current system is flawed, but says the answer is not to dispense with referrals from GPs, who are experts in diagnosis and triage

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Keir Starmer pledges to tackle ‘bureaucratic nonsense’ to save NHS

Labour leader sets out views on health service, saying ‘if we don’t get real about reform, the NHS will die’

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer vows to slash ‘bureaucratic nonsense’ in NHS

‘If we don’t get real about reform, the NHS will die,’ says Labour leader

Wales Online

Sir Keir Starmer backs plan to make GPs NHS employees and slash ‘bureaucratic nonsense’

Plans include bringing GPs back under the direct employ of the National Health Service rather than running their own practices under contract

The Independent UK

Starmer backs plan to make GPs NHS employees and slash ‘bureaucratic nonsense’

The Labour leader said that without reform, the NHS ‘will die’.

Daily Mirror

NHS doctors' mental health meltdowns as stressed A&E staff suffer panic attacks on shift

A Sunday People investigation uncovers the shocking toll on hospital doctors, with half of NHS medics suffering mental health problems in the past year as they struggle with understaffing

The Independent UK

Ambulance performance worst on record with some people waiting hours

One in 10 people waited at least three hours, 41 minutes and 48 seconds for a response to a category two call.

The Guardian - UK

More NHS staff to strike as Rishi Sunak confirms use of private healthcare – as it happened

Latest updates: physiotherapists the latest group to announce industrial action as PM says he is now registered with an NHS GP

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