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Legal age to buy cigarettes could rise by one year every year under Labour

Everyone in England would eventually be banned from buying cigarettes under the plan, which was presented to Tory ministers last year - and will be looked at by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting

Daily Mirror

PM warned 'emergency' NHS meeting won't ease pressure after 'years of inaction'

The Prime Minister is holding rare weekend talks with health leaders - after senior medics said the health service was on a knife edge with many A&E units struggling to keep up with demand and trusts and ambulance services declaring critical incidents

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak holds emergency talks in bid to ease winter NHS crisis

PM meets health experts including Professor Sir Chris Whitty

The Independent UK

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Labour hints it would prevent GPs operating as ‘murky’ private businesses

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting also said he would stop GPs being ‘the sole gatekeeper’ to the NHS.

The Independent UK

Labour ‘would tear up contract with GPs’ and make them salaried NHS staff

Planned overhaul for GP surgeries puts party on collision course with British Medical Association

The Guardian - UK

Prime Minister to hold emergency No 10 talks as winter care crisis rages on

But senior doctors say the rare meeting is unlikely to reverse the NHS' fortunes, blaming the crisis on 'years of inaction'

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak to hold emergency No 10 talks in bid to ease NHS winter care crisis

But Mr Sunak has been warned that the rare weekend meeting is unlikely to reverse the NHS’ fortunes, which have been blamed on 'years of inaction'

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Rishi Sunak's bid to summon health leaders on NHS crisis is 'too little, too late'

The Prime Minister will stage an 'NHS Recovery Forum' with health leaders and experts - but critics slammed the move saying 'patients deserve more than a talking shop'

Daily Mirror

PM to host NHS Recovery Forum with health and care experts in Downing Street

The forum will focus on four areas: social care and delayed discharge; urgent and emergency care; elective care; and primary care.

The Independent UK

Senior Labour MPs at odds over private sector use in NHS

Shadow health minister Rosena Allin-Kahn, who also works as an A&E doctor, calls for more NHS staff

Evening Standard

Crisis-hit NHS ‘can’t keep up’ with too few staff to treat patients safely, warn senior MPs

Demand for healthcare has gone ‘through the roof,’ warns Tory health committee chair Steve Brine

Evening Standard

The Mancunian Way: The kebabathon to end them all

PLUS: Flu on the rise and the return of facemasks AND strike action ‘to the bitter end’

Manchester Evening News

Hundreds are 'dying unnecessarily' in NHS crisis as government urged to 'step up and take action'

"The current situation in the NHS is intolerable and unsustainable"

Manchester Evening News

Healthcare in CRISIS: Future of NHS is on a knife-edge as Tories urged to act NOW

Medics warned Tory cuts have left the NHS on its knees, amid claims up to 500 people a week die because of delays in emergency care

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The Independent UK

Sunak and Barclay’s absence amid NHS pressure ‘inexplicable’ – Labour

Labour has blamed Conservative ‘mismanagement’ of the NHS for the current pressure.

The Guardian - UK

Nonfiction to look out for in 2023

From insights into siblings and anorexia, via the stories of trailblazing women and Boris Johnson’s time at No 10, here are the titles that will define the year

The Independent UK

Streeting defends proposal for private hospitals to help tackle NHS backlog

The shadow health secretary, standing in as a presenter on LBC, said the NHS must ‘reform or die’.

The Independent UK

Labour warns against scrapping NHS targets

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said ministers should be ‘cutting waiting times, not cutting standards’.

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Daily Mirror

'NHS is there to help us stay well and heal us - but the system is collapsing'

The NHS is there to help us stay well and heal us when we are sick, and if it needs a leg up from private hospitals to fulfil those core functions, then so be it

Daily Mirror

Wes Streeting vows to cut NHS waiting lists by 233,000 with private hospital plan

The bold pledge by the no-nonsense Labour shadow Health Secretary came as he gave the NHS seven years to “reform or die” predicting it would not survive if the Tories win another term in office

Daily Mirror

Labour's Wes Streeting says NHS is facing 'existential crisis' and needs reform

The Shadow Health Secretary also used a speech at the Policy Exchange think-tank to urge Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay to hold face-to-face talks with unions to avert further strike action from nurses at 'breaking point'

Daily Mirror

Jeremy Hunt refuses to rule out BANNING nurses from going on strike in new crackdown

Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt twice refused to deny a complete ban on nurses going on strike - as they prepare to begin their first walkout of its kind in a century tomorrow

The Guardian - UK

Who do you believe: the brilliant NHS staff who treated my cancer, or ministers who spin and lie?

A harrowing Guardian report depicts the struggle to deliver care, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Number of cancelled operations double in three years due to NHS shortages

Data shows 30,000 operations were cancelled last year in England

The National (Scotland)

Anas Sarwar urged to condemn Wes Streeting's 'appalling' attack on health union

SCOTTISH Labour have been told to urgently condemn an "unconscionable attack" on a health union by Keir Starmer’s shadow health…

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