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Exasperated NHS bosses have urged Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association to agree to independent mediation to end industrial action by resident doctors, who will begin their latest strike on Wednesday. The health secretary and the doctors union have been told to embrace the idea in order to urgently break the deadlock in their increasingly bitter dispute that health service bosses say is making patients collateral damage.

Maintaining medical records for tens of millions of people in the UK has become a colossal administrative challenge for the NHS. A recent trial of 's AI-driven healthcare tool Dragon Copilot has improved efficiency and enhanced the doctor-patient relationship. One of the essential responsibilities for clinicians (healthcare professionals, such as a doctor or nurse, who provide direct patient care) is accurate record-taking. This adds a substantial administrative burden to each consultation and takes up a considerable amount of time.

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images Patients are being warned not to clog up A&E with everyday niggles as NHS figures show thousands turned to hospitals for minor ailments such as hiccups and ingrowing toenails last winter. There were more than 200,000 A&E attendances in England from November to February for conditions that could have been dealt with elsewhere, according to NHS England. This represents more than 2% of all attendances during that four-month period, taking up vital resources at under-pressure A&Es, health bosses said.

"We are nurses who love our jobs and our patients and only want to be afforded the dignity of getting dressed and undressed for work without a man present,"

They will break from the status quo. They will add to the care we already value. Staffed by GPs and nurses. And you won't need to call up for an appointment. That means more people can go after work - when it fits with their lives.

Hundreds of NHS hospital workers have voted for strike action after claims that they have lost more than 36m in pay and pension contributions over the last four years. More than 330 low-paid workers, mainly cleaners, caterers and porters, known as facilities staff, at St George's, Epsom and St Helier hospital group (GESH) are preparing to go on strike.

As part of the report, the panel contacted 325 women who had been treated by Mr Hay between 2015 and 2018, asking them to share their experiences. In addition to the 325 patients, 58 women had already been reviewed in an earlier assessment carried out in 2019. In Wednesday's report, the steering group panel identified two women as suffering "severe physical harm", with three sustaining "moderate physical harm" under Mr Hay's care.

Ministers have handed firms 6m in contracts to help devise plans to build a network of new NHS clinics using private capital, despite fears the move could turn into a PFI-style disaster. The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded contracts worth 3m each to the management consultants Deloitte and the lawyers Addleshaw Goddard. They are advising the DHSC on whether to use public-private partnerships (PPPs) to help build dozens of the promised neighbourhood health centres in England.

We know this is unacceptable and we are very sorry to patients who have been cared for in this way.

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Neil Hopper, 49, whose legs were amputated below the knee, is accused of telling insurers that his injuries were the result of sepsis and were not self-inflicted, intending to make a gain. He has also been charged with encouraging someone else to remove the body parts of others after he allegedly bought videos from an extreme body modification website. Appearing at Truro Crown Court on Thursday, he pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation between 3 June and 26 June 2019.

The platform, which is being piloted at Chelsea and Westminster NHS trust, extracts information from medical records, including diagnoses and test results.

The workers at St Helier and Epsom hospitals are considering a strike due to complaints about their treatment and the contracts they are under, described as Mickey Mouse.

"Without blood transfusions I wouldn't be here today. The left side of my body was filled with clots. Having the right blood ready and waiting gave me a second chance at life."

Junior doctors are entering a five-day strike over pay, with NHS leaders warning that further walkouts are likely in the coming months. Talks have made little progress.

Public opinion on whether resident doctors are fairly paid is sharply divided but nearly half of Independent readers agree with the government's stance that their current salaries are reasonable. In our poll, 49 per cent said the doctors' pay is fair given NHS budget pressures. Just over a quarter said they could be paid more but felt a 29 per cent increase is too high, while a further 25 per cent backed the BMA's demand for significantly higher pay, especially in light of rising inflation and real-terms wage cuts since 2008.

Eddie Baker, 83, revealed that participation in the EPIC clinical trial for penile cancer, involving immunotherapy and chemotherapy, may have extended his life by two years.

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