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UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 hours ago

Covid-19 inquiry: Harrowing effect of pandemic on NHS and patients to be revealed

The UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry reveals the NHS faced severe staffing shortages, equipment crises, and overwhelming death tolls during the pandemic, with health leaders providing emotional testimony about catastrophic conditions.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

BBC investigation finds 50,000 people waited over 24 hours in A&E corridor care

Over 52,000 patients in north-west England waited longer than 24 hours for hospital admission in 2025, with corridor care becoming a widespread crisis affecting nearly one in five admitted patients.
Public health
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 months ago

There were clear warnings': Readers on the NHS flunami' crisis

The NHS faces a flunami surge, chronic underinvestment, staff shortages and strike risks while donation-funded, paywall-free journalism supports on-the-ground reporting.
Healthcare
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

This week's doctors' strike is another test of Wes Streeting's mettle. He is right not to buckle | Polly Toynbee

Orchestrated political assaults weakened ministers as acute NHS pressures — strikes, soaring flu admissions, long waits, and rising elective backlogs — threaten patient care.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

NHS will die under Reform unless doctors stop striking and work with Labour, says Wes Streeting

The alternative is strikes continue to hold back the NHS's recovery, the costs of industrial action slow down investment in new technology, equipment and additional specialty places, the changes that we all agree need to be made are blocked, and patients continue to be failed. From there, the public will conclude that Labour has failed on the NHS and they will elect a Reform government instead a party that has openly said it will replace the NHS with an insurance-based system.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 months ago

My mum died in A&E last month and the place was like a war zone | Zoe Williams

The relentless demonisation of trans people has led us straight to a place where every choice is impossible, using words that recall the darkest days of prejudice.
UK politics
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 months ago

Top cancer experts being put off UK by politicians' messaging on immigration'

Political rhetoric on immigration is deterring top cancer professionals from working in the UK.
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