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Labour promised GPs more money. Why hit them with higher national insurance?

Letters: Primary care will suffer from exposing doctors to the rise in national insurance – they should be exempt, writes Phil Taylor

The Guardian - UK

Fee rise will not fix ‘financial pressures’ facing universities due to NI hike

Changes announced in the Budget around employers’ national insurance contributions will cost the sector around £372m, it has been suggested.

Evening Standard

Streeting vows Budget will put NHS staff ‘on front line, not the picket line’

The Health Secretary also vowed Labour would rebuild hospitals.

The Independent UK

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UK introduces a tough anti-tobacco bill, but smokers can puff away in pub gardens for now

Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament

The Independent UK

Labour ‘working hard’ to win over Trump in case he defeats Harris

Health Secretary Wes Streeting was asked about a 2017 post on social media in which he called Donald Trump an ‘odious, sad, little man’.

Evening Standard

Wes Streeting defends tuition fee increase as ‘proportionate and reasonable’

Health Secretary Mr Streeting, a former president of the National Union of Students, said he would still go to university even with the fee rise.

The Independent UK

From gaffe-prone Philp to hardliner Patel, who makes up Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet?

The newly elected party leader unveiled her top team on Tuesday morning ahead of its first meeting

The Independent UK

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NHS to review guidance on prostate cancer testing after Chris Hoy’s appeal

Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy said more men with a family history of prostate cancer need to come forward for checks.

The Independent UK

Vaping and smoking in playgrounds and outside schools may be banned – Streeting

The Government has rowed back on proposals to make it illegal to smoke in pub beer gardens.

The Independent UK

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates says he’s been waiting a month for reply from PM about compensation delays – as it happened

Former post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

People 'taking risk' with health by going in smoky pub garden, says Wes Streeting after row-back on ban

But smoking outside schools, playgrounds and hospitals is set to be outlawed

Evening Standard

UK politics live: Badenoch’s shadow cabinet shows Tories ‘learned nothing’ from Truss chaos, says Labour

Top roles for Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick as new shadow cabinet revealed

The Independent UK

Smoking to be banned outside schools and hospitals in England, but pubs get reprieve

Legislation also includes ban on advertising of vapes and restrictions on flavours, packaging and marketing

The Guardian - UK

Scammers ‘preying’ on those desperate for NHS dentist, says BDA

People are falling victim to fake websites offering NHS dental appointments secured through a pre-payment system, the British Dental Association said.

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

GPs ask Streeting for ‘assurances’ over employers’ national insurance hike

The Royal College of GPs is seeking assurances that practices will be protected like ‘the rest of the NHS and public sector’.

The Independent UK

Now Reeves faces backlash from GPs, care homes and hospices over national insurance hike

While the NHS and the rest of the public sector have been shielded from the chancellor’s rise in employer contributions to national insurance, GPs and the care sector warn they will face severe strain

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on health spending: the NHS needs more than a shot in the arm

Editorial: The chancellor has given the health service a boost. But huge challenges remain

Evening Standard

NHS gets £22bn funding boost in Budget – how will it affect hospitals and patients?

NHS leaders welcome injection of cash but funding must be matched by delivery

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The Independent UK

Government orders more mpox jabs as officials prepare for new strain

There have been no cases of clade I mpox in the UK.

Evening Standard

More than £3 billion needed to fix London's crumbling hospitals

Ministers have promised new funding for NHS infrastructure in the Budget

The Independent UK

Every way Labour has defined ‘working people’ ahead of the Budget

Ministers have given varying descriptions of group they have pledged not to raise taxes on

Evening Standard

Budget 2024: Commons clash on 'higher mortgage rates' from Labour's Rachel Reeves borrowing billions to invest

The Chancellor is expected in the Budget on Wednesday to ease her debt fiscal rules to borrow some £20 billion extra to fund transport and other infrastructure projects

The Conversation

Five reasons weight-loss jabs alone won’t help get people back to work

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and health secretary Wes Streeting have recently discussed plans to trial weight-loss injections for around 250,000 people with obesity who are unemployed in a bid to get them back into work, ease pressure on the NHS and boost the economy.

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting tells private schools to ‘cut cloth like state schools’ over VAT worries

Wes Streeting told independent schools worried if children will be able to access them after VAT hikes in fees to “cut cloth your cloth in the way state schools have had to do.”

The Independent UK

Streeting did not intend to ‘wade into’ assisted dying debate

The Health Secretary said he is worried that people could feel they have a ‘duty to die’ to relieve the burden on their loved ones.

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