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The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

Everything is great, nothing to see here, Rachel Reeves tells MPs

Chancellor delivers a spring statement strong on wishful thinking and light on compassion for those hit by cuts

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting brands Israel's attacks on the West Bank 'unjustifiable' and demands end to settler violence

Wes Streeting said he felt “powerless” as he spoke about Israeli violence against the Palestinian people

Evening Standard

‘Unjustifiable’ Israeli attacks must end, warns Streeting after Netanyahu breaks Gaza ceasefire

Senior member of Starmer’s government warns ‘appalling conflict does nothing for Israelis or Palestinians’

The Independent UK

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Wes Streeting: Israel’s attacks on Gaza are ‘unjustifiable’ and ‘intolerable’

At Guardian Live event, health secretary says Israel’s decision to break Gaza ceasefire is ‘soul-destroying’ and ‘cannot be justified’

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves: For the umpteenth time, it’s not an emergency budget!

WhatsApp exclusive: PM and cabinet in upbeat mood ahead of tomorrow’s eagerly anticipated emergency budget … erm, spring statement

The Guardian - UK

Breast cancer screenings uptake ‘shockingly low’, health minister tells MPs

James Cleverly pressed the Government on its plans to raise awareness of the full range of symptoms, to improve early diagnosis rates.

Evening Standard

Sex and gender ID conflation ‘isn’t helpful’ for data collection, Streeting says

Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the Commons that the ‘conflation of sex and gender identity isn’t helpful’ for data analysis.

Evening Standard

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Thirty-seven patients die needlessly each day in the NHS. Change is good, but patient safety must come first

The biggest area of risk – in terms of lives lost and cost – involves NHS maternity units. Organisation upheaval must not distract us from what matters most, says former health secretary Jeremy Hunt

The Guardian - UK

NHS plan will see funds allocated to social care, Health Secretary says

Wes Streeting suggested he will increase NHS spending on social care but did not say by how much.

Evening Standard

NHS banned from changing trans children's gender on medical records

No 10 said while gender should be recognised in some circumstances, the importance of biological sex when it comes to healthcare is ‘common sense’

Evening Standard

Data on biological sex is key for patient safety, Health Secretary says

Wes Streeting has backed a report that warned against conflating it with gender identity.

Evening Standard

Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head

Speaking on BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Wes Streeting, the UK health secretary, expressed concerns that some mental health conditions were overdiagnosed. The Conversation asked two experts to comment on Streeting’s claim. Is the health secretary right?

The Conversation

Peer who led government NHS review failed to declare shares in health firms

Lord Darzi’s undeclared interests in four companies included $500,000 of shares in US-based healthcare venture

The Guardian - UK

Culture warriors see not sick Britain, but a plague of ‘overdiagnosis’. How convenient

Instead of dismissing huge swaths of the population, how about a nuanced conversation about neurodivergence and mental health, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Government must not lose 'safety net' amid welfare changes

In a ‘promise to Londoners’, mayor insists he will speak up over Government’s proposed reforms to benefits system

The Guardian - UK

Liz Kendall’s stages of welfare cuts: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

Slashing £5bn of benefits is not generally what Labour MPs get into politics for, but Liz at least tried to enjoy herself

The National (Scotland)

Analysis: Labour are cutting benefits in ways the Tories only dreamt of

LABOUR’S swingeing cuts to disability benefits are reckoned to be the biggest on record.

The Fashion Central

GB News Host Grills Wes Streeting Over £122k NHS DEI Job in Fiery Showdown

GB News presenter Camilla Tominey didn’t hold back as she confronted Health Secretary Wes Streeting over Labour’s decision to abolish NHS England.

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The Independent UK

Welfare needs reforming – but Liz Kendall must show her workings

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: To be unveiled this week in a green paper, the government’s plans to move people off benefits and into worthwhile employment will help balance the nation’s books and prove a vote-winner, too. Some dispassionate evidence now would help the reforms command even more public confidence

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why are 1.3 million people on mental health benefits?

Twice as many people are claiming mental health benefits as a decade ago

The National (Scotland)

Scottish minister slates Wes Streeting for mental health remarks

Scottish Government minister Maree Todd has criticised Wes Streeting for suggesting there is an overdiagnosis of mental health problems ...

The National (Scotland)

Expert weighs in on Wes Streeting's mental health 'overdiagnosis' claims

WES Streeting’s claim there is an overdiagnosis of mental health conditions is a “distraction” from “chronic underfunding” of mental…

The Independent UK

Voices: Sorry, Wes – my A&E is full of people having a mental health crisis

COMMENT: The health secretary is wrong to suggest that doctors are overdiagnosing patients with psychiatric conditions – it’s just not in our own best interest to reach for the prescription pad and sign them off work, says Dr Ammad Butt

The Independent UK

Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK - and what does it cost the NHS?

Mental health disorders are driving the rise in health benefit claims; but is Streeting’s claim of “overdiagnosis” the issue?

The Fashion Central

BBC Viewers Furious as Laura Kuenssberg’s On-Air Habit Sparks Mass Switch-Off

BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg turned fiery today as the presenter locked horns with Health Secretary Wes Streeting over the bombshell announcement that NHS England will be abolished.

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