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Streeting warns Britons against having cheap cosmetic surgery abroad

Wes Streeting speaks out after deaths in Turkey among women travelling for procedures such as butt lifts

The Guardian - UK

Streeting will ‘improve safety’ for Britons going abroad for cosmetic surgery

The Health Secretary said he wanted to ‘send a strong message to the British public to manage the risks, to do their homework’.

The Independent UK

Assisted dying Bill lacks safeguards and could lead to secret hearings, warns retired High Court judge

There should be no room for secrecy or concealment in assisted dying applications, Sir James Munby warned

The Independent UK

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Health Secretary accused of crossing a line on airing assisted dying views

A Labour peer said Wes Streeting’s comments are a breach of Government neutrality on the divisive issue.

Evening Standard

Could weight loss drugs fix UK’s unemployment problem?

US pharmaceuticals group Eli Lilly is to conduct trials of its weight-loss drugs in the UK.

Al Jazeera

Wes Streeting faces pushback from senior Labour figures over assisted dying

The Health Secretary has said he is against a change in the law to allow terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their lives

Evening Standard

Cabinet minister Liz Kendall says she will vote for assisted dying

Work and pensions secretary confirms stance, as Wes Streeting faces criticism for saying law could bring NHS cuts

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Hodge: It is a bit daft of Streeting to suggest assisted dying will cost NHS

The Health Secretary said he had asked his department to analyse the costs of implementing any change in the law on assisted dying.

The Independent UK

Streeting: Women treated like ‘alien species’ due to health inequalities

The Health Secretary also pointed to inequalities in prostate cancer diagnoses, with black men two and a half times more likely to die than white men.

Evening Standard

The right to die is about freedom – don’t let those who see it as a line on a spreadsheet torpedo it

MPs soon have a once-in-a-generation chance to vote for the assisted dying bill. Wes Streeting must not derail it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Minister tries to ease MP concerns over time available for assisted dying Bill

Commons Leader Lucy Powell said the committee stage for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would likely last for ‘several weeks’.

Evening Standard

'No plan': Scottish Government rules out Labour health board league tables

SCOTLAND’s Health Secretary has said there are “no plans” to introduce hospital league tables after NHS bosses hit out at plans for them in…

The National (Scotland)

Thursday briefing: Can Labour’s plan for league tables cure the ailing NHS?

In today’s newsletter: The health secretary is introducing performance rankings for hospitals, to reward the ‘good’ and punish the ‘bad’. Staff are fearful and furious

The Guardian - UK

Most UK TV ads for sweets and snacks shown before children’s viewing watershed

Research has prompted claims firms such as Mars, Haribo and PepsiCo are in ‘flagrant’ breach of codes of behaviour

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The Independent UK

Streeting puts failing NHS fat cats in firing line as he warns service is ‘living on borrowed time’

NHS managers have been warned that failure will no longer be rewarded with a cycle of payouts followed by rehires at different trusts

The Guardian - UK

Legalisation of assisted dying may force NHS cuts, Wes Streeting warns

Minister has asked officials at Department of Health to analyse implications for other services

The Independent UK

Health secretary warns of ‘chilling slippery slope’ as he orders review of costs of assisted dying

Wes Streeting has asked the Department for Health and Social Care to look at costs of assisted dying bill

Evening Standard

Streeting taking concerns over physician associates ‘very seriously’

The role of PAs is to support doctors in the diagnosis and management of patients, and they can be deployed across GP surgeries and hospitals.

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Evening Standard

Streeting asks officials to analyse costs around law change on assisted dying

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the Department of Health and Social Care would examine the costs associated with a change in the law.

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting, you must have a better plan for ailing hospitals than public humiliation

The plan to introduce league tables is a simplistic gimmick that will demoralise NHS staff – and sideline their incredible work, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

Evening Standard

Assisted dying law could come at expense of other NHS services, says Streeting

The Health Secretary said the Government would need to work through ‘a very new way of working’ if the Bill was passed.

The Independent UK

NHS is ‘living on borrowed time’ and only Labour can fix it – Wes Streeting

The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

Evening Standard

Pressure remains on Church of England after Welby resignation over Smyth scandal

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said church leaders should not think ‘one head rolling solves the problem’.

The Independent UK

Watch: Wes Streeting announces NHS name-and-shame league tables

Watch as Wes Streeting announceed government plans to name and shame failing NHS hospitals as part of a package of measures aimed at tackling poor performance on Wednesday, 13 November.

Evening Standard

‘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’.

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