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‘Palliative care could improve enough for assisted dying but concerns remain’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has repeatedly said the palliative care system is not ‘where it needs to be to give people a real choice’.

Evening Standard

Streeting says assisted dying bill passing into law will come at expense of other NHS services

Health secretary Wes Streeting has claimed the assisted dying bill passing into law would “come at the expense” of other NHS services.

The Independent UK

Streeting hints at help for health organisations hit by national insurance rise

Wes Streeting said he recognised the pressures that organisations which provided care outside the public sector were facing.

Evening Standard

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Wes Streeting’s shock as he is compared to Elon Musk

Wes Streeting appeared shocked when he was compared to Elon Musk during a live TV interview on Wednesday, 13 November.

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting to look into NHS physician associates amid concerns over role

PAs are graduates who have undertaken two years of postgraduate training

The Independent UK

Streeting looking into concerns about role of NHS physician associates

The Health Secretary acknowledged there were issues around the associates being used as substitutes for doctors.

Evening Standard

Wes Streeting hails head of London hospitals 'busting' through waiting list backlogs as he unveils NHS reforms

The Health Secretary cited the work being done by Matthew Trainer in turning around Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust

Evening Standard

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NHS managers to be sacked if they do not improve patient care under Government plans

Wes Streeting to announce plans to ‘name and shame’ struggling hospitals

Evening Standard

Streeting’s hospital league table plan riles NHS medics and bosses

Health secretary says controversial scheme for trusts in England is necessary to raise standards

The Guardian - UK

Failing hospitals to be named and shamed in league tables under Government plans

NHS England will carry out a ‘no holds barred’ review of NHS performance across England with the results made public in league tables.

The Independent UK

Underperforming NHS hospitals to be named and shamed in league tables in bid to end rewards for failure

NHS managers will be sacked and denied pay rises if they don’t improve patient care, Wes Streeting says

The Independent UK

Labour’s mental health reforms a ‘lip service’ that could worsen racial inequalities, experts warn

Exclusive: Labour government has yet to commit to funding levels for mental health promised under the Tories

The Independent UK

Archbishop of Canterbury resigns - live: Welby’s Lords seat in doubt amid calls for Labour to refuse peerage

Mr Welby said it was ‘very clear’ he must take responsibility and regretted the Church’s historic failures

The Independent UK

GP practices could be forced to close because of tax hike, Streeting warned

The combination of increases in national insurance contributions and higher wage bills could force or cuts or even closures, the BMA said.

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Ed Davey opens up about caring for his sick mother as he says he’ll vote against assisted dying bill

Cabinet split on proposed legal change, which is opposed by health secretary Wes Streeting and justice secretary Shabana Mahmood but backed by Ed Miliband and celebrities like Esther Rantzen

The Independent UK

‘My very death depends on it’: Terminally ill teacher urges MPs to back assisted dying bill

It comes as the Labour MP behind the legislation said she expects assisted dying to be used by just hundreds of people each year

Evening Standard

Health Secretary says assisted dying would come at ‘expense’ of other NHS services

Terminally ill adults with less than six months to live will have right to end their own life under new legislation

Evening Standard

‘Robust’ assisted dying Bill unveiled as PM says MPs won’t be pressured on vote

The Bill, which was published on Monday night, runs to almost 40 pages, with around 20 pages of explanatory notes.

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Evening Standard

NHS managers who fail to improve patient care ‘will be denied pay rises’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will deliver a speech setting out new rules around pay and NHS spending on agency staff.

The Independent UK

‘Game-changer’ pill to help people stop smoking to be rolled out on NHS

Varenicline works by tackling nicotine cravings and also helps with withdrawal symptoms, such as irritability and trouble sleeping.

The Independent UK

Bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill ‘is safest choice’, argues MP

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater insists her new law offers ‘strictest safeguards’ in world as it is set to be published

Evening Standard

New law offers ‘safest choice’ to terminally ill who wish to die, says MP

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has been published.

The Guardian - UK

Pay for NHS chiefs to be linked to performance with ‘no more rewards for failure’, Wes Streeting says – as it happened

Health secretary to confirm announcement in speech later this week

The Guardian - UK

Nurses quitting profession early puts health reforms in England at risk, says union

Numbers leaving within 10 years of registering rose by 43% between 2021 to 2024, finds Royal College of Nursing

The Independent UK

Assisted dying Bill to offer ‘strictest protections’ in world, says Leadbeater

The Labour MP who tabled the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill said if MPs passed the new legislation it ‘must be a good law’.

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