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The Independent Pride List 2025: the LGBT+ people making change happen

PRIDE 2025: The Independent’s Pride List is back again, celebrating the LGBT+ community’s biggest pioneers over the past 12 months

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NHS app to become default source for appointments, screenings and test results

Millions more people will receive personal health information directly to their smartphones within the next three years.

Evening Standard

NHS app to become new ‘front door’ for appointments, screenings and test results

Millions more people will receive personal health information directly to their smartphones

The Independent UK

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NHS England to give urgent help away from A&E to cut ‘corridor care’

Move is part of £450m Wes Streeting plan to tackle long delays and end hospital overcrowding

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are losing their grip as rebels sharpen the knives

The PM’s strategy feels like the posture of a man trying to stay upright on one leg on a balance ball, writes Anne McElvoy

Evening Standard

Physician associates to be renamed to stop them being mistaken for doctors

Exclusive: Government-ordered review concludes term in NHS should be changed because of risks to patients’ safety

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Is Ozempic fueling a new era of body image pressure? Join The Independent Debate

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: As weight-loss injections become more mainstream, do you see them as a breakthrough treatment, or are we moving too fast without fully understanding the long-term consequences?

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The Gen Z gender pay gap has reversed with young women earning more than young men – so what’s up with boys?

IN FOCUS: For the first time in history, many young women are out-earning their male peers. As boys lag behind in education and employment, Ben Bryant reports on how this signals a deeper crisis in masculinity

The Independent UK

Spending on agency staff across NHS in England drops by almost £1bn

Exclusive: Cost-saving for 2024-25 follows pledge by Wes Streeting to cut the amount going to agencies by 30%

The Guardian - UK

Resident doctors warn of ‘immensely disruptive’ potential co-ordinated strikes

The physicians formerly known as junior doctors are being balloted in England for strike action.

Evening Standard

Labour’s poll ratings have plummeted – so is Starmer’s future in question?

Dissatisfaction among MPs has created a febrile mood, with ambitious cabinet ministers assessing their options

The Guardian - UK

France to ban smoking in public places including at beaches and parks

The ban follows similar measures across an increasingly smoking-averse Europe

The Independent UK

Children and patients deserve to be safe in schools and hospitals – ministers

The Government has set out its funding allocations for building repairs to NHS buildings, schools and sixth forms across England.

Evening Standard

NHS to roll out ‘revolutionary’ blood test for lung cancer

The NHS says the test, known as a liquid biopsy, will benefit about 15,000 people each year

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Striking junior doctors no longer have public’s backing, Wes Streeting says

The health secretary’s intervention marks a drastic shift in tone after he brought months of strike action to an end last year by handing doctors a 22 per cent pay rise within weeks of entering office

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – as it happened

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west England

The Independent UK

Health Secretary tells doctors to help ‘rebuild our NHS’ amid strike action ballot

A recent poll found 48 per cent of Britons oppose resident doctors striking, while 39 per cent support such action

The Guardian - AU

Health secretary urges no strikes as ballot of junior doctors begins

Patients Association fears winter of delays as Wes Streeting calls for no vote from resident doctors in England who argue pay has fallen 23% in real terms since 2008

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Evening Standard

Streeting urges doctors to vote against strike action

Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, in England are being balloted for strike action by the British Medical Association (BMA).

The Independent UK

Junior doctors seeking almost 30% pay rise to avoid more strike action

Wes Streeting urged resident doctors not to vote for strike action after they demanded their pay be restored to 2008 levels

The Independent UK

Voices: Are doctors right to threaten more NHS strikes over pay? Join The Independent Debate

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Resident doctors are voting on strike action after rejecting the government’s latest pay offer, reigniting a fierce debate over fair pay, patient care, and the future of the NHS workforce

The Independent UK

UK trains hundreds of thousands of doctors for NHS to ‘treat them like cr**’, health secretary admits

Wes Streeting urges doctors not to strike and set back the NHS’s progress on recovery

The Independent UK

Resident doctors start receiving ballots for strike action

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged doctors in England to ‘vote no’

Evening Standard

Six London NHS Trusts set to benefit from 'cutting-edge' radiotherapy machines

Linac machines are being prioritised in hospitals where existing machinery is over a decade old

The Independent UK

28 hospitals to get state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines, ministers announce

A £70 million Government investment will see linear accelerator (Linac) machines rolled out at hospitals across the nation from August.

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