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    Sarah Neville

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    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      UK health chiefs push vaccine drive as winter ‘twindemic’ concerns rise

      Public urged to have flu and Covid jabs as coronavirus case numbers creep up in some regions

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      National Health Service
      Health secretary sets up £500mn social care fund to boost NHS

      Coffey aims to stem exodus of senior doctors with pension change as she tries to tackle patient backlog

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      National Health Service
      New targets for GP appointments in plan to boost NHS performance

      ‘Ambition’ for patients to expect a maximum 2-week wait as new government sets out changes to funding rules

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Thérèse Coffey’s ‘be positive’ order angers UK health workers

      New minister issues ‘patronising’ instructions, including ban on use of Oxford comma

    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Bill Gates warns Ukraine war is sapping Europe’s foreign aid budgets

      Largest philanthropic fund says world ‘on track to achieve almost none’ of UN development goals

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      NHS England
      NHS backlog for routine care hits record high of 6.8mn in England

      Almost 380,000 patients waiting more than a year for treatment, highlighting scale of challenge facing new PM

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      News in-depthDisease control and prevention
      Pandemic exposes sharp divide in European cancer treatment

      Estimated 1mn cancers went undiagnosed in first year of Covid crisis but some countries maintained high standards of treatment

    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      The daunting in-tray facing Britain’s next prime minister

      In a week’s time, the new incumbent at Downing Street will meet a daunting set of economic and social challenges

    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      The Big Read
      The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker

      The potential impact on heart and brain disease poses challenges to healthcare systems globally

    • Sunday, 28 August, 2022
      National Health Service
      NHS backlog drives steep rise in self-pay healthcare

      Personally funded treatments increase by 39% across UK in past two years as waiting lists spiral

    • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
      National Health Service
      Pension waivers for NHS staff set to continue as tough winter looms

      Concessions would boost workforce numbers as health service tackles backlog and potential upsurge in Covid and flu cases

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      News in-depthDisease control and prevention
      Big power rifts and dwindling funds raise risks in ‘pandemic era’

      Experts hit out at monkeypox response: ‘We’re actually at the most vulnerable we’ve ever been’

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Monkeypox
      LGBT+ groups raise alarm over UK monkeypox vaccine shortfall

      Disease will become ‘endemic’ unless Health Security Agency secures more doses, warns five political parties

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      National Health Service
      NHS chiefs call for ‘urgent changes’ to UK pension tax rules to ease waiting lists

      Health leaders urge Treasury to review allowance limits for doctors to avoid extra work being declined because of inflation

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      National Health Service
      UK blood scandal victims due ‘no less than £100,000 in compensation’

      Scale of NHS treatment disaster implies £400mn bill for those ‘living on borrowed time’

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Covid infections fall in England, Wales and Scotland

      Although trend in Northern Ireland is ‘uncertain’, latest data suggest virus wave may be in retreat

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      UK government spending
      MPs criticise award of £777mn Covid contracts to medical group Randox

      ‘Impossible to have confidence’ deals issued to diagnostics company were done properly, says committee report

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Covid-19 infections still rising in England, latest ONS data show

      Estimates find about one in 17 in England had virus in week to July 13, but trends elsewhere in UK are ‘unclear’

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      UK Government
      UK government lagging on pandemic-related PPE fraud, say MPs

      Commons committee says suppliers ‘are likely to have made excessive profits’, leaving taxpayer to foot bill ‘for years to come’

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Climate change
      Britain feels the heat as it braces for record 40C temperatures

      Transport, schools, hospitals and power grid disrupted amid warnings thermometers will rise further

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      National health alert issued after Met Office’s ‘red’ risk-to-life heat warning

      NHS and rail network face pressure with ‘exceptional hot spell on Monday and Tuesday’ forecast

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      UK Covid-19 vaccine boosters to be expanded to all over-50s

      ONS publishes data showing percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus still rising

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      Disease control and prevention
      ‘Red alert’ on global child health issued after drop in vaccinations

      WHO and Unicef warn of fall in immunisations for diseases such as diphtheria, polio and measles

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      News in-depthNational Health Service
      What can the UK learn from the Dutch approach to end-of-life care?

      Intensifying medical needs of baby boomers have exposed flaws in health system

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      England’s health bosses should not ‘take eye off ball’ on Covid jab rollout, say MPs

      Public accounts committee praises jab campaign but warns almost 3mn people in England yet to be vaccinated

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