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Wes Streeting signals move to train thousands more GPs

Thousands more GPs could be trained in order to deal with the NHS staffing crisis, Wes Streeting has indicated. The Health Secretary has pledged to create a “transformed health service” after ordering officials to tweak the NHS workforce plan. The ...

08 Dec 2024 at 16:07

Northern Ireland

£1bn investment needed to fix hospital waiting lists in five years, MLAs told

Northern Ireland’s hospital waiting lists crisis could be solved in five years – but only with “huge investment” of more than £1 billion, MLAs have been told. Officials from the Department of Health briefed a Stormont committee on measures ...

12 Dec 2024 at 17:19

Streeting warns BMA: ‘NHS is hanging by a thread, don’t pull it’

Wes Streeting has warned the doctors’ union they risk collapsing the NHS and installing Nigel Farage in No 10 if they do not back down over strikes. In a message to the British Medical Association, he warned the NHS is “hanging by a ...

29 Sept 2025 at 19:49

NHS app has helped to save 1.5 million appointments from cancellation

Reform of the NHS app has resulted in 1.5 million fewer appointments being missed, ministers have revealed. This has helped to cut waiting times for elective surgery and other appointments, according to NHS England analysis of data ...

28 Apr 2025 at 00:01

Ending the 8am scramble for GP appointments ‘a big challenge’, Streeting says

A new contract for GPs is a “breakthrough moment”, the Health Secretary has said, as he admitted ending the 8am scramble for appointments is a “big challenge”. Wes Streeting said the new deal brings an end to the dispute GPs have ...

28 Feb 2025 at 12:15

GPs in England accept contract terms helping end ‘8am scramble’ for appointments

GPs in England have accepted new contract amendments which would “bring back the family doctor” and end the “8am scramble” for appointments, the Government has said. The British Medical Association (BMA), the trade union for ...

28 Feb 2025 at 00:01

Signing up for clinical trials to be new feature on NHS App

Browsing and signing up to clinical trials will become a new feature on the NHS App as part of the Government’s healthcare plan. Eventually the app will automatically match patients with studies based on their own interests ...

16 Jun 2025 at 00:01

Future already looks bright for the NHS under Labour, Starmer says

The “future already looks better for the NHS” under Labour, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he set out a 10-year vision to bring care closer to people’s homes. Accompanied by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who made her first ...

03 Jul 2025 at 11:35

New NHS 10-year-plan marks start of ‘major renewal of Britain’, Starmer pledges

A new 10-year-plan for the NHS marks the beginning of a “major programme of renewal and rebuilding that will transform the entire country”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Prime Minister will unveil his vision for the ...

03 Jul 2025 at 08:18

New NHS plan shows ‘future already looks better’ under Labour – Starmer

The “future already looks better for the NHS” under Labour, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he published a radical plan to transform the health service. The new 10-year plan for the NHS sets out a series of shifts to ...

03 Jul 2025 at 18:46

Scotland

Doctors urged to have say on future of profession

Doctors in Scotland are being asked for their views on the future of the profession. A “once-in-a-generation” project has been launched to look at the current shape of the health service and gauge the views of the ...

04 Aug 2025 at 00:01

Streeting: Government will not be ‘held to ransom’ by striking doctors

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he was battling “cultural challenges” to modernise the NHS as he warned striking doctors they were putting jobs at risk. The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced ...

26 Oct 2025 at 14:51

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