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Javid defends national insurance rise: ‘Morally wrong to let our children pay’

The Health Secretary has defended the decision to increase national insurance (NI) for millions of workers as he claimed it would be “morally wrong” to let “our children pay for our healthcare and our adult social care”. From Wednesday, national ...

06 Apr 2022 at 12:25

Scotland

Humza Yousaf challenged to guarantee safety of Edinburgh’s Sick Kids hospital

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf is being asked if he can guarantee Edinburgh’s new Sick Kids hospital is safe, amid concerns that cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower has been installed at the flagship hospital. Scottish Liberal ...

10 Apr 2022 at 12:25

People with a cold urged to ‘stay home and avoid contact’ under new guidance

People in England who have a cough or cold are to be urged to “stay home and avoid contact with other people” under new Government guidance on Covid-19. Those who have a symptoms of a respiratory illness such as a high temperature or ...

29 Mar 2022 at 20:55

Key points around the Government’s ‘unlawful’ care home discharge policies

The High Court has ruled that Government policies on discharging untested hospital patients into care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic were “unlawful”. It follows a legal challenge from two women whose fathers died ...

27 Apr 2022 at 18:55

Scotland

Scotland records 19 Covid deaths and highest case numbers since January

Scotland has recorded 19 coronavirus-linked deaths and 11,685 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest case numbers since early January, according to the latest figures. It means the number of people who have died within 28 ...

08 Mar 2022 at 15:55

Government urged to announce pay rise for nurses

The new Health Secretary is being urged to end the delay in announcing a pay rise for nurses amid research suggesting public support for industrial action over the issue has risen sharply. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ...

11 Jul 2022 at 02:48

Scotland

Health Secretary sets ‘ambitious’ targets to tackle long NHS waiting times

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced a set of “ambitious” targets in a bid to tackle NHS waiting times – including a pledge to end waits of two years or more for some patients within weeks. The Scottish Government ...

06 Jul 2022 at 14:41

Steve Barclay ‘to tell NHS to scrap targets and focus on key areas’

Health Secretary Steve Barclay will reportedly tell the NHS to scrap some of its targets and focus on cutting wait times for areas including ambulances, operations and GP appointments. Mr Barclay, who took the Cabinet ...

01 Sept 2022 at 04:13

NHS ‘manager bashing’ is ‘explaining away’ problems in health service

Government “manager bashing” in the NHS is an attempt to “explain away” problems facing the health service, one leader has suggested. Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation organisation which ...

14 Jun 2022 at 11:16

Hunt admits his failings as health secretary contributed to current A&E delays

Jeremy Hunt has admitted that his own failings as health secretary have contributed to people waiting hours for an ambulance or in A&E departments. The ex-Cabinet minister has also described sitting at the ...

15 May 2022 at 13:25

Pressure on Government to ramp up testing capacity amid record Covid levels

The Government is under increasing pressure to up the capacity of coronavirus testing as case levels reached their highest level yet. A new record was set for the daily number of coronavirus cases on ...

30 Dec 2021 at 01:25

Wes Streeting: Labour cannot rely on Tories being ‘crap’ to win general election

Labour cannot rely on the Tories being “crap” to win the next general election, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said, as he criticised Rishi Sunak for having “cranks” in his Cabinet. The ...

27 Oct 2022 at 17:29

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