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Gordon Brown warns Tories are considering making patients pay for NHS treatment

The former prime minister hit out following a claim by Sajid Javid that patients should be charged for visiting GPs or A&E wards.

Daily Record

Scotland's NHS on its knees as 2000 doctors needed for crippling staffing crisis

Today the Daily Record begins a week dedicated to saving our NHS by shining a spotlight on the huge challenges facing our GP surgeries and hospitals.

Daily Record

Lib Dems: Ease NHS crisis with more GPs and giving pharmacists further powers

The party is launching a plan it says will help fix the pressures on the health service.

The Independent UK

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The 6 best Fitbits for swimming

Most Fitbits are water-resistant and suitable for swimming, but features such as built-in GPS and heart rhythm tracking can set them apart.

Inverse

NHS leaders voice alarm as 10 more ambulance strikes planned

Unite move means NHS will struggle on 6 February, but union says escalation caused by ministers’ wrong claims over patient safety

The Guardian - UK

The rural Welsh village about to lose its last GP surgery

Nearly a fifth of GP practices in Wales have shut in the last ten years

Wales Online

Medical abortions still hard to access in Wagga Wagga, GPs say, due to 'culture of silence'

Women rely on "word of mouth" to access medical abortions in New South Wales' largest inland city and sometimes they're too late, according to these GPs.

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Two in five GPs face verbal abuse on daily basis – poll

The Royal College of GPs described the survey findings as ‘deeply disturbing’.

The Independent UK

Doctor explains why Brits are being plagued with never-ending coughs this winter

Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, explains why rates of lower and upper respiratory tract infections are well above the average

Daily Mirror

Antidepressants ‘should be reduced in stages’ to avoid withdrawal symptoms

UK medicines watchdog advises GPs to ‘taper’ doses for patients who want to stop taking the drugs

The Guardian - UK

Don’t panic when Starmer refers to NHS ‘reform’. He is thwarting Tory moves to destroy it

For too long, reform has been a ministerial code word for ‘dismantling’. Labour’s approach will be refreshingly different, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting’s plan to turn GPs into salaried NHS staff is misguided

Letters: Salaried GP Joe McFarlane says the Labour proposal is shortsighted and raises several big questions, but Dr Jeremy Bending thinks it would improve quality of care

The Guardian - UK

If patients could bypass GPs to see specialists, the NHS would grind to a halt

Letter: NHS psychiatrist Dr Melanie Knowles agrees that the current system is flawed, but says the answer is not to dispense with referrals from GPs, who are experts in diagnosis and triage

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer says he's never used private healthcare - but NHS must reform or 'die'

Labour's leader defended his tough stance on NHS reforms, vowing to take on 'bureaucratic nonsense' and 'mind-boggling inefficiencies' in the health service

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Evening Standard

Keir Starmer: Nothing is off the table when comes to NHS reform

Sir Keir said nothing is off the table when it comes to reforming the NHS as the health service is in its ‘worst position in history’

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer vows to slash ‘bureaucratic nonsense’ in NHS

‘If we don’t get real about reform, the NHS will die,’ says Labour leader

Wales Online

Sir Keir Starmer backs plan to make GPs NHS employees and slash ‘bureaucratic nonsense’

Plans include bringing GPs back under the direct employ of the National Health Service rather than running their own practices under contract

The Independent UK

Starmer backs plan to make GPs NHS employees and slash ‘bureaucratic nonsense’

The Labour leader said that without reform, the NHS ‘will die’.

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The Guardian - UK

UK plans GPS tracking of potential deportees by fingerprint scanners

Charities say 24/7 monitoring for people on bail from immigration detention risk ‘total surveillance’

Dublin Live

Thousands more GPs needed in Ireland to deal with ‘workforce crisis’

600 of the 4000 existing GPs in Ireland will have retired in the next three years

Daily Record

Scots gran who lost limbs after getting sepsis from paper cut loses compensation bid

Marguerite Henderson, 57, sued her GPs at the Benarty Medical Practice in Lochgelly, Fife, alleging that they didn’t do enough to stop her falling seriously ill.

The Independent UK

Thousands of ambulance workers go on strike in dispute over pay

NHS England has told patients to continue to call 999 for life-threatening emergencies but to use 111, GPs and pharmacies for non-urgent needs.

Chicago Sun-Times

Metra launches live train tracker

GPS equipment has been installed on more than half of Metra lines as the $26.7 million project went live Tuesday.

Dublin Live

Flu vaccine walk-in clinics to open for children aged two to 17

Pharmacies and GPs are also offering the vaccine as the number of flu cases in children rise

The Guardian - UK

Finally, some sense on the NHS: Wes Streeting recognises more money is not the only answer

The shadow health secretary wants to reform GPs and give patients more control. It would be a welcome, practical step, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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