The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

Flu cases in NHS hospitals jump 55% in one week, figures show

The NHS is under strain as it tackles high flu cases, with some hospitals asking people to wear face masks.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025

Shocking numbers reveal full extent of flu wave spreading across the country

Hospitals across the country have asked staff, patients and visitors to wear face masks

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025

Wes Streeting ‘frustrated’ by ‘technocratic approach’ to governing

The Health Secretary argued Labour must be better at communicating its achievements and values to voters.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025

Wes Streeting improves offer to resident doctors in England in attempt to stop strikes

BMA puts health secretary’s offer, which includes pledge to double number of extra training places, to resident doctors

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2025

Doctors’ strike could be called off as Streeting makes last-minute offer

Health secretary says Christmas strikes would have a “much different degree of risk” than previous walkouts

The Independent UK · Dec 10, 2025

Tried using the new online GP booking system? I have – and it was almost as miserable as my chest infection

Wes Streeting’s plan to make booking easier made sense. Then I encountered an AI triagist, a stubborn receptionist and a Kafkaesque vicious circle, says Guardian feature writer Simon Hattenstone

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2025

Scale of A&E crisis laid bare as one in five patients treated in corridors or waiting rooms

Patients are being forced to wait two days for a bed as corridor care become ‘endemic’

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2025

Voices: Every woman should feel safe in an NHS maternity ward

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The staggering shortcomings in care for mothers at hospitals and failure to implement recommendations to correct them have resulted in lives lost and ruined – the health secretary could define his legacy by finally putting this right

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2025

Unacceptable care and women left to ‘bleed out’ in bathrooms – maternity review

Baroness Valerie Amos has so far spoken to more than 170 families for her review into maternity care.

Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2025

Pity Keir Starmer – he’s the fall guy for a Labour right that’s ready to cast him aside

The PM is the face of failure, but he is not solely responsible. As the Blairite ideologues mass behind Wes Streeting, we should hold them to account too, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2025