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FactCheck: May not telling the whole story on NHS funding
Theresa May fired off a volley of stats about the NHS under the Conservatives at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
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How is the NHS preparing for a no-deal Brexit?
Vital medical supply lines are at risk, it’s been suggested, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. Brexiteers have dismissed such concerns as “Project Fear”. In Wales, the NHS has secured extra warehouse space to stock-pile essentials and one major UK hospital food supplier says it has spent five million pounds on Brexit…
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NHS targets: How do you keep patients out of A&E?
When it comes to meeting its targets, the NHS in England has had one of the worst winters on record. And that’s prompting hospitals to look at different ways of dealing with patients.
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Government says the NHS will improve the lives of people with rare diseases
Ahead of Rare Diseases Day, Baroness Nicola Blackwood spoke to Channel 4 News about her own genetic condition and promised a revolution in the way patients are diagnosed and treated.
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Number of NHS patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment rises to half a million
The number of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment rose to more than half a million in November, according to the latest figures released by NHS England. There were, however, fewer patients waiting longer than four hours in A&E departments across England in December compared with the same period last year. But there…
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Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth on NHS funding: ‘We’re prepared to put up taxation for very wealthiest’
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth and Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive of the Health Foundation, discuss the government’s 10-year NHS plan.
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Health Secretary: NHS ‘has got to be better’ at working with councils
We spoke to Health Secretary Matt Hancock about the long-term NHS plan and began by asking him where the money was going to come from.
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May hails launch of 10-year NHS plan for England as ‘historic’
The government has outlined how it plans to save hundreds of thousands of lives by diverting money away from hospitals and into early detection of diseases, such as cancer.
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Figures show NHS coped well over Xmas, but warning signs remain
Winter means extra pressure on the NHS in England, and while figures published today for the the last two weeks of December show the health service is coping well, there are some warning signs.
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NHS to increase staff numbers on maternity wards
The NHS will be the best place in the world to give birth – that’s the ambition of the Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who today announced plans to increase staff numbers and to improve the quality and safety of care on maternity and neo-natal wards.
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Exclusive: NHS to get 5000 new fridges in preparation for no-deal Brexit
As part of no-deal Brexit contingency plans, the health service will get 5000 new fridges to help with stockpiling.
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Labour’s John McDonnell: ‘Budget won’t help bring down NHS waiting lists’
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, and Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, discuss the budget.
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FactCheck: have the Conservatives “nurtured” the NHS?
Labour governments have tended to spend more on the health service than the Conservatives since 1979.
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The NHS doctor facing deportation after 16 years
The Government’s immigration policy says that highly skilled workers who want to live and work in Britain will get priority. Yet a popular, highly qualified doctor in east Surrey – who’s lived here for 16 years – is now facing deportation after her application for indefinite leave to remain was refused.
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Inquiry opens into NHS contaminated blood scandal
Almost 3,000 people died in what’s been called the worst scandal in the history of the NHS. It all happened in the 1970s and 80s, when patients were given blood contaminated with HIV or Hepatitis C. Despite allegations of a cover-up, it’s taken until now for a public inquiry to begin. The opening day heard…
