Health

The latest Covid inquiry report has found that billions of pounds the UK spent on personal protective equipment were wasted. 

In the second part of our special Substack mini-series on climate change, Alex Thomson explores how extreme heat is affecting health.

We speak to Health Secretary James Murray as the government promises to overhaul maternity services after a damning new report.

More than 1,000 women have died before, during and after childbirth since 2010 and analysis seen by Channel 4 News suggests more than half might have survived with better care

London Ambulance Service expects a 50% surge in emergency calls during the extreme heat, with more people fainting, collapsing, and suffering breathing difficulties.

Britain and much of Europe are sweltering in a record-breaking June heatwave.

Earlier, we spoke to Sir Jeremy Hunt, who was the health secretary from 2012 to 2018. We asked him why he thinks the NHS has not been able to learn from its mistakes.

We spoke to Donna Ockenden, who led the Nottingham maternity care review, and we asked her how dark a day this is in the history of the NHS.

Cruel, toxic, dismissive. Just three of the words used in a damning report to describe the culture at an NHS Trust where 520 mothers and babies suffered “potentially avoidable” harm or died.

The NHS is bracing for a report on the biggest maternity scandal in its history, which is due to be published tomorrow.

Is the UK built for these high temperatures? We asked Lucelia Rodrigues, Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Cities at the University of Nottingham.

With temperatures reaching new highs in the UK for the month of June, many people turn to rivers and reservoirs to cool down.

For only the second time ever, the Met Office has issued a ‘red extreme heat warning’.

We spoke to Dr Richard Oakley, the associate director of research and innovation at the Alzheimer’s Society.

We spoke to Kirsty Lang, who knew Jon for four decades – she was a long time colleague of Jon’s here at Channel 4 News and interviewed him for an article in the Daily Mail.