Bigger does not always mean better in hospital care Letter: For some medics, working at a large centre means for the same pay you don’t have to work so hard, writes Dr Paul Godwin The Guardian - UK · 10h ago
Senior NHS doctors to strike over pay row Talks over pay had taken place with the government over the past month The Independent UK · 17h ago
Senior doctors in England plan November strike The BMA said the industrial action can be avoided if ministers commit to talks on pay and working conditions. Evening Standard · 17h ago
Sea bass: a fish by any other name Brief letters: Sea bass names | Healthy NHS | Globe destroying | No pictures | Clean sweep from the 60s The Guardian - UK · Oct 25
Emirati-linked firms’ ownership of Manchester land ‘up 39%’ in 10 years Economic ties face scrutiny after scandal over Manchester City’s financial rules The Guardian - UK · Oct 25
Greener maternity care starts with changing hospitals, without putting pressure on pregnant women The NHS has a substantial carbon footprint. Yet one part of its environmental impact receives relatively little attention: maternity care. The Conversation · Oct 23
Nurse struck off after falsifying patients’ records to get herself weight loss jabs The Nursing and Midwifery Council panel described Sarah Didymus's actions as ‘calculated and sophisticated’ The Independent UK · Oct 23
Mounjaro rollout on NHS is too slow and creating ‘two-tier system’, MPs warn Only about 6 per cent of eligible patients will get Mounjaro through the NHS rollout in the first three years, says report The Independent UK · Oct 23
Imagine if, for once, Labour decided to tell the truth about immigration Our economy needs it. The NHS needs it. And making foreign workers’ lives more miserable – as the home secretary plans to do – will undermine integration, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff The Guardian - UK · Oct 23
Youth mobility scheme may be delayed to ensure success of UK-EU summit Visa quotas, university fees and NHS surcharges remain sticking points ahead of post-Brexit negotiations next month The Guardian - UK · Oct 23
Weight-loss drug rollout on the NHS blasted as 'unambitious' by MPs Only around 6% of eligible people will get or currently receive Mounjaro in its first three years on the NHS Evening Standard · Oct 22
Child health in England at risk from sharp rise in NHS waiting times, report says CQC research finds long delays are making conditions harder to treat and highlights regional disparities in care The Guardian - UK · Oct 22
The Independent UK · Oct 22 AI to give doctors ‘second pair of eyes’ on prostate cancer MRI scans The technologies are designed to help radiologists by highlighting areas on prostate scans that cancer may be present
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22 What would make neonatal units safer for babies? Letters: Dr Pamela S Melding highlights how New Zealand has created a healthcare culture where patient safety, interests and consent are the overriding principles. Plus letters from Mark Hanson, Paul Whiteing and a reader who lost her baby
The Independent UK · Oct 22 How at least 2,000 patients accidentally ‘dropped off’ NHS waiting lists IN FULL
The Independent UK · Oct 22 I tried buying everything for my baby on Vinted. Here’s what I learned FIRST PERSON: With parents spending an average of £1,220 preparing for a baby before it even arrives, Radhika Sanghani puts online secondhand shopping to the test to see how much she can save on everything from prams to baby essentials – and whether buying pre-loved really pays off
The Independent UK · Oct 22 Thousands of patients accidentally removed from NHS waiting lists The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) says the electronic system ’was not designed to manage the current volume of referrals’
The Independent UK · Oct 22 MI5 monitored Nye Bevan for more than 20 years, records show Files released to the National Archives show monitoring continued after he became a minister in the post-war Labour government.
Evening Standard · Oct 22 New clinical trial backed by Andy Burnham could speed up Alzheimer’s treatments The Prime Minister’s father Roy died with Alzheimer’s disease in September.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22 Thursday briefing: The crisis putting maternity units in England at risk of closure In today’s newsletter: rising rates of C-sections, staff shortages and years of unresolved concerns are preventing some hospitals from delivering babies safely
The Guardian - UK · Oct 21 Aneurin Bevan’s personal security file was ‘remarkably tame’ – National Archives Some in UK’s security services questioned why Welsh Labour firebrand was of interest
The Independent UK · Oct 21 Calls for £9.90 prescription charge to be scrapped as patients go without medication The NPA said that prescription charges are a ‘cruel tax on illness’ as they called on the Chancellor to scrap the charges in the upcoming Budget
The Independent UK · Oct 21 MI5 monitored politician behind NHS for two decades, newly-released files show Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan first came to the attention of the security service in the 1930s amid concern about his links with prominent communists