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Thérèse Coffey to drop smoking action plan, insiders say

Officials say health secretary will not publish plan, as campaigners warn ‘smoke-free’ UK is seven years behind target

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘burying head in sand’ over health inequality, says bishop of London

Exclusive: UK’s most senior female bishop calls for long-awaited white paper promising ‘bold action’

The Guardian - UK

Tesco, Asda and Aldi forced to bring in huge ban for shoppers

Morrisons, Waitrose, Sainsbury's and other supermarkets are also affected

Liverpool Echo

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Thérèse Coffey scraps promised paper on health inequality

Exclusive: health secretary has decided not to publish white paper, which was originally intended for publication by last spring

The Guardian - UK

Dangerous NHS England hospital roofs ‘will not be fixed until 2035’

FoI request reveals long wait to repair roofs at risk of collapse, including those affecting Truss and Coffey constituents

The Guardian - UK

Patients turn to DIY dentistry after failing to book NHS appointments

'It is a national scandal that people are desperately resorting to pulling their own teeth out'

Wales Online

'Plan for Patients' aims to cut NHS appointment waiting times and recruit one million volunteers

Therese Coffey wants to end the '8am scramble' for appointments and is asking for Coronavirus volunteers to come back and work for free again

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Government plan to tackle NHS staff shortages shelved amid Treasury row

Exclusive: ‘HMT now says we have the money. If [the plan] is out before Christmas I’ll eat Santa’s hat,’ says one senior NHS figure

The Independent UK

Coffey urges staff to be positive, be precise, and not use Oxford commas

Officials say they find the new UK health secretary’s memo ‘super patronising’

The Guardian - UK

Thérèse Coffey considers paying care homes in England to free hospital beds

New health secretary examining proposals for care homes to look after patients whose discharge is prevented by lack of social care

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss holds out olive branch to Rishi Sunak backers as she recasts junior team

Several MPs who supported the former chancellor in the Tory leadership contest have been handed ministerial roles

Evening Standard

Ministers to make it easier for foreign nurses and dentists to work in NHS

Exclusive: change to registration process will pave way for thousands of staff trained overseas to come to UK, says government

The Guardian - UK

MP Liam Fox dismisses reports about donation from Covid firm as ‘baseless smear’

Office of ex-Tory minister received £20,000 from SureScreen Diagnostics two years after he recommended firm

The Guardian - UK

Winding up petition issued against Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm

PPE Medpro was awarded £203m contracts by UK Government after Tory peer approached Michael Gove

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Daily Mirror

Minister makes veiled threat to NHS managers as he alludes to staffing cull

In what may prove to be his only major speech before he is replaced next week, Tory Steve Barclay suggested the axe could fall on non-clinical staff amid demands for sweeping savings

Nottingham Post

Statement after large pile of PPE left at site in Nottinghamshire

Billions of items of PPE are being kept in storage

The Guardian - UK

Routine Covid tests in English hospitals to be scrapped next week

Move comes despite near doubling in UK Covid deaths this summer compared with same period to last year

Wales Online

'Pills by post' for early-stage abortions at home to be made permanently available

The Government first enabled women to have early medical abortions at home when covid struck

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The Guardian - UK

No plans for UK to order more supplies of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

JCVI says mRNA vaccines such as the Pfizer and Moderna jabs are the most effective for UK booster programme

Evening Standard

34 hospitals in England have roofs that could collapse

Surveys carried out by the NHS found that 34 buildings at 16 different health trusts were at risk

The Guardian - UK

Ministers admit 34 hospital buildings in England have roofs that could collapse

Exclusive: Renewed fears ceilings at affected hospitals could suddenly collapse, injuring staff and patients

The Guardian - UK

UK will ‘run out of monkeypox vaccine in 10 to 20 days’

Leading sexual health expert predicts a gap of almost one month before supplies are replenished

Liverpool Echo

Doctors explain why it's so hard to get a GP appointment

"They can only offer what's there, they can only give what they've got"

The National (Scotland)

UK Government criticised over 'woefully inadequate' Covid contracts records

THE UK Government’s “woefully inadequate” record-keeping means it is “impossible” to know if hundreds of millions of pounds of covid-19…

The Independent UK

Red list hotel quarantine subsidised by over £1m a day by taxpayers – and ‘no evidence’ that it worked

One in three travellers who were supposed to be quarantining at home may have breached rules – despite government spending over £100m home visits to check compliance

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