NHS waiting lists in England reach all-time high
New data shows that 7.47 million people were waiting to start routine hospital treatment at the end of May.
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NHS at 75 – patients being penalised for living longer, top medic warns
The British Medical Association chair has warned that the health service is ‘shrinking’, despite increasing need for it.
NHS app will refer patients to private hospitals in effort to curb wait times
Rishi Sunak believes offering more choice for patients on hospital performance will increase standards - and likely line his donors' pockets.
Husband and wife NHS workers in Sudan feel they have been ‘left without support’
The family decided to flee when they found out soldiers were using the house next door to Ms Eljak’s family home as an arms depot.
Concern for NHS soars amid unprecedented strike action, poll finds
Inflation remains the public’s number one concern, but worries about the NHS, housing and education increased in April.
NHS leader urges Acas intervention to avert ‘catastrophic’ junior doctor strikes
NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has urged the Government and unions to call in the Acas conciliation agency.
Emergency care to be prioritised during junior doctors’ strike, says NHS England
England’s top doctor has warned that the walkouts are set to be ‘the most disruptive industrial action in NHS history’.
Four-day walkout by junior doctors ‘could see 250,000 appointments postponed’
“In the last junior doctors’ strike, we saw about 175,000 appointments and operations having to be postponed."
Nearly 15,000 children’s operations cancelled last year
Some 77 NHS hospital trusts in England provided the data, which showed that 59,566 operations have been cancelled since 2018.