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Showing posts from December, 2022

Winter set to be worst ever for A&E waits, health leaders warn

China Covid: UK set to require negative test for arrivals

Flu rise warning from NHS in England

Covid: Why are some places testing Chinese arrivals?

Strep A: At least 30 children have died in UK since mid-September

Covid in China: Checks on visitors under review - defence minister

Doncaster surgery sends cancer text instead of festive message

Urgent plea to only use A&E in Greater Manchester if life-threatening

Hong Kong to scrap almost all its Covid rules

North East Ambulance declares second critical incident

UK Covid modelling data to stop being published

Tewkesbury hospital patients get penguin pick-me-up

Flu and Covid: People told to avoid mixing at Christmas if unwell

Molnupiravir Covid antiviral treatment hastens recovery - trial

Ambulance workers in England to strike again in January

Pat Cullen: Who is the RCN nursing union boss leading strikes?

Two years after Covid food still tastes rotten

Health Secretary Steve Barclay keen to focus on next year's NHS pay deal

Ambulance strike: Warning of very challenging days ahead

Nurses in Scotland to strike after rejecting pay deal from NHS

Ambulance strike: Union fury over minister Steve Barclay's claims

Midwives in Scotland reject latest NHS pay offer

Nurses' strike: 'If we have to, we'll continue to strike'

Watch: On the picket line with nurses across the UK

Rishi Sunak refusing to budge on pay as strike action escalates

Strike: What will ambulances respond to on Wednesday?

Ambulance strike: Avoid risky activity during strike - health minister

Merthyr Tydfil: Toy beads warning after boy, 4, nearly died

Nurses to strike as ambulance crews plan walkouts

Care workers paid £8,000 less than NHS equivalents in England - study

Government to sue Mone-linked PPE firm for £122m

Health Secretary Steve Barclay grilled about NHS by ill child's mother

Pregnancy: IVF clinics 'can't just tell women to lose weight'

Oliver Dowden firm on pay as nurses warn of more strikes

December strikes: 1,200 army personnel to cover for ambulances and border force

Hospitals told to free up beds for ambulance strike

Wes Streeting: I won't pretend NHS is envy of world

Nurses' strikes: Union warns of more action unless pay talks open

Would it cost the government £700m to raise nurses' pay?

Inhaled metal Tube dust can enter bloodstream, study finds

No timetable for infected blood victims' compensation

GMB union rejects improved NHS pay deal in Scotland

Nottingham placenta error hampered baby death probe - coroner

Largest nursing strike in NHS history set to start

Using my family's dark history to teach about vaccines

Antibiotic supply gone from bad to worse, say pharmacists

Strep A: Parents say son misdiagnosed before strep A death

How Covid has dealt the NHS a lasting blow

Welsh midwives vote to strike, but not in England

Nurses' strike: Union accuses minister of belligerence after talks fail

Scarlet fever: Mother's terror after late-night antibiotic search

Ketamine for alcoholics trial goes to next stage

100,000 babies to have genetic code mapped

Two NHS Scotland unions accept 7.5% pay deal

Ministers hold emergency Cobra meeting amid wave of strikes

Hospitals in England pay £5,200 for one agency doctor's shift

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

'I want people to ask about my burns'

Hove secondary school pupil dies with suspected strep A

Covid: Pre-Christmas booster urged as infections rise

Strep A: Grandmother says four-year-old Camila Burns getting better

France makes condoms free for 18 to 25 year olds

Our job is to keep people out of A&E

Nurses bitten and screens smashed - life in A&E

Strep A linked to deaths of 15 children across UK

Record alcohol deaths from pandemic drinking

Working in extreme heat puts strain on foetus

'A&E is absolute chaos - I spent 15 hours on a trolley'

‘Doctors fitted a contraceptive coil without my consent’

Matt Hancock to stand down at next election

Rise in deaths after West Mids ambulance delay

Antibiotics for strep A in good supply, says health secretary Steve Barclay

More diagnostic hubs to tackle NHS waiting lists in England

Number of smokers drops as vaping rises, data shows

Ambulance staff to strike on 21 December

Angela Ranyer: Covid contract VIP lane was 'a scandal of epic proportions'

Strep A: Five-year-old dies from illness linked to bacterial infection

Child aged 12 dies of invasive strep A in London

Strep A: Penarth family traumatised by daughter's death

Parents urged to be aware of Strep A symptoms after death of six children

Six children die with Strep A bacterial infection

Strep A: Fourth child dies from bacterial disease

Strep A: Why it can be dangerous and what to know

Strep A: Penarth primary school child dies of disease

Infectious Covid virus can stay on some groceries for days