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UK healthcare workers and teachers to vote on strikes

More than half a million healthcare workers and teachers in Britain will be given a vote on strike action over pay, unions said on Thursday, adding to the challenges facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he tries to get to grips with an economic crisis.

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A blood shortage in the U.K. may cause some surgeries to be delayed

Part of the reason for the shortage is that there are fewer donors visiting blood collection centers in cities and towns in the aftermath of the pandemic, the National Health Service said.

WEKU

Douglas Ross accuses FM of trying to score 'political points' amid clash over A&E waiting times

While Ross focused his questioning on A&E waiting times, Anas Sarwar raised the cases of two patients who were left waiting for months for…

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Battered and bruised, Merseyside can't pay the price of more Tory chaos

With communities and public services at breaking point already, what this desperate government is planning is unthinkable, writes Liam Thorp

Liverpool Echo

The Standard View: As London loses more nurses, the next PM needs to urgently address the NHS staffing crisis

The National Health Service is creaking. A winter crisis in August and record waiting lists are evidence that our healthcare system is being pushed to the brink. And today we report further strains.

Evening Standard

Three Time’s A Charm For Desperate Woman Who Pulled Her Teeth

After her first infected tooth caused her pain in March 2020, she resorted to desperate measures when the pain became unbearable.

Zenger

While Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss play to the gallery, the NHS is breaking apart

When Maria Caulfield, the junior health minister, replied to an urgent question in the House of Commons by Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, on the ambulance crisis, she said she did not want to play politics with the National Health Service. It is a lovely thought but wholly naïve.…

Evening Standard

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Britain's health service facing worst staffing crisis, say lawmakers

Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) is facing its worst ever staffing crisis with thousands of vacancies and the government has no credible strategy to address the problem, a committee of lawmakers said in a report published on Monday.

Reuters

UK awards below-inflation pay rises for police and health workers

Britain announced below-inflation pay rises for police officers and National Health Service (NHS) staff on Tuesday, as part of an annual pay review for public sector workers that comes amid soaring prices.

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Hospitalisation rates double as COVID cases triple across Europe

The World Health Organization warns pandemic is not over as European countries largely abandon coronavirus restrictions.

Al Jazeera

WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double

The World Health Organization says coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting slams government NHS mess as 34,000 in Merseyside wait for cancer scans

Shadow health secretary visited Merseyside and pledged that a Labour government would fix the crisis in the National Health Service

Liverpool Echo

We now have clear proof that this Tory party is intellectually exhausted

Five days into the contest, the candidates to be the next Conservative prime minister have already offered £235 billion in tax cuts. None of them have begun to suggest how they would pay for them. Yet on they go, blithely playing to the gallery of Tory members, making promises that are…

Evening Standard

Ceremony commemorates work of key workers

A granite stone was gifted by ASA Forces charity and unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant and Cllr Ann Davidson in Broxburn

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NHS warning over Covid text scam that could steal your bank details

Fraudsters posing as the National Health Service are attempting to steal from people's bank accounts by using bogus text messages

Tribune News Service

UnitedHealth Group unit paying $1.5 billion for UK technology company

A division of UnitedHealth Group is paying $1.5 billion to acquire a health technology firm that will deepen the company's business with the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom.

Benzinga

Palantir Plans To Bid For £360M UK NHS Contract: FT

Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) is planning to expand its role in the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), Financial Times reported. The firm has supported NHS with its analytics software in the administration of ventilators and PPE tools. Now, the company is planning to bid on a £360 million contract for the proposed Federated…

Benzinga

Valneva Shares Jump As Its COVID-19 Vaccine Receives Conditional Approved In UK

The Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the U.K. has granted Conditional Marketing Authorization for Valneva SE's (NASDAQ:VALN)COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, for primary immunization in adults 18 to 50 years of age. MHRA found that VLA2001 meets safety, quality, and effectiveness standards. This new marketing authorization comes in addition to the emergency use authorization,…

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GMB's Richard Madeley slammed in on-air clash for 'demonising' NHS

Good Morning Britain's Richard Madeley clashed with journalist Kevin Maguire in the ITV studio over the presenter's characterisation of the NHS

Daily Mirror

'I quit the NHS, the intense work culture was like being in the trenches'

Dr Michael Mrozinski first started working in the National Health Service in 2009 after graduating from medical school before quitting and moving to Australia for a new life

Evening Standard

Talking Point: Would you feel comfortable being treated by a healthcare worker who isn’t jabbed?

The subject of mandatory Covid vaccines for NHS staff has once again been in the news, but this time it is expected that the government will drop the policy as the deadline for getting jabbed was approaching. NHS staff were supposed to begin the process of becoming fully vaccinated by…

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Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers should be scrapped – omicron has changed the game

Time is running out for National Health Service staff in England who have not had a COVID vaccine. Doctors and nurses have until Thursday, February 3, to have their first jab. If they don’t, they will not be fully immunised by the beginning of April and could be dismissed.

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