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NHS: six key challenges facing the Labour government

In 1997, Tony Blair’s election “pledge card” included a promise to cut NHS waiting lists, then totalling 1.16 million. Keir Starmer’s “first steps for change” include a similar pledge to cut waiting times, but his task is on a different scale, with 7.5 million people currently awaiting treatment. How did…

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Complaints about GPs and dentists in London double in a decade, figures suggest

Separate figures published by NHS Digital show that the number of full-time GPs working in London has fallen by 3 per cent in a year

Evening Standard

One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts

Exclusive: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals

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Calls for ‘urgent change’ to return NHS dentistry to pre-pandemic levels

It comes after NHS Digital figures showed 18.1 million adults were seen by an NHS dentist in the two years leading up to June.

The Independent UK

Number of permanent GPs in England falls year-on-year 12 months in a row

There were 26,521 permanent qualified GPs working in England in June 2023, down from 26,859 in June 2022, according to NHS Digital.

The Independent UK

Disposable vapes should be banned to protect children, UK paediatricians say

Single-use e-cigarettes growing in popularity among young people despite unknown health effects and environmental impact

The Guardian - UK

23,000 people died last year because of long waits at A&E, say experts

The RCEM found that in 2022 some 1,656,206 patients in England waited 12 hours or more from their time of arrival in an emergency department until they were admitted, transferred or discharged

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A&E delays linked to tens of thousands of patient deaths, top doctors claim

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said the scale was ‘deeply distressing’

The Independent UK

College claims 23,000 excess deaths in 2022 were ‘linked to A&E waits’

A new briefing paper by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine examined long waits and excess deaths.

The Independent UK

Health leaders urged to focus on retaining GPs after numbers drop year on year

The figures also show the proportion of GPs in England working full time at local surgeries is at its lowest level since current records began.

The Independent UK

GP numbers continue to fall but the UK isn't unique in losing family doctors

The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to increase the UK’s GP numbers by 6,000 by 2024. That target will clearly not be met. In fact, the proportion of GPs working full time in England has fallen compared with last year, according to the latest figures from NHS Digital.

The Conversation

Britain's biggest health concerns unveiled as NHS lists top 10 most searched diseases

The health service has published data on its most frequently-visited web pages for medical conditions, giving us a picture of what the public searches for most often

Daily Mirror

Top health concerns of the nation revealed

NHS Digital has detailed the main reasons people sought medical advice from its website.

The Independent UK

Fewer patients treated in England for mood disorders as ‘system creaks under strain’

NHS Digital says 23,000 sought hospital treatment in 2017-18, but numbers fell to 15,500 by 2021-22

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Evening Standard

One in seven nursing posts in London vacant with 11,000 vacancies in September

NHS figures lay bare staffing shortages in the capital ahead of nursing strikes

The Independent UK

NHS vacancies in England rise to new record high

NHS Digital figures show there were 133,446 full-time equivalent vacancies at the end of September.

The Guardian - UK

Six in 10 older teens in England have ‘possible eating problems’

NHS Digital research reveals scale of issues, with even higher number of 20- to 23-year-olds affected

The Independent UK

Sharp rise in teenagers suffering poor mental health – NHS Digital report

Large numbers reported being worried about the impact of Covid on their schooling, while others were struggling with social media and online bullying.

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Evening Standard

Nearly a fifth of children in England ‘have mental health issues’

NHS Digital figures show rise in probable mental disorders among children aged between 7 and 16

The Conversation

Universal free school meals would make a huge difference to the cost-of-living crisis – here's how

The UK government’s recent autumn statement set out several measures to help people with rapidly rising prices. These including increased benefit payments and an extension to the energy price cap, although at a less generous rate than currently guaranteed.

The Guardian - UK

NHS faces ‘perfect winter storm’ with tenfold rise in hospital flu cases

Latest figures also show nearly a third of patients arriving by ambulance at hospitals in England waiting at least half an hour

Evening Standard

Revealed: London areas with the longest GP wait times

Londoners in the south west of the capital enduring the longest waits as staffing levels decline

The Independent UK

Rise in children as young as 11 needing NHS mental health help

Some 992,647 under-18s needed support in 2021/22, data shows.

The Independent UK

GPs carry out record amount of appointments while family doctor numbers drop

NHS Digital said 32 million appointments were carried out in October.

Evening Standard

London girls four times more likely to say they’re vapers than boys

Paul Walton, deputy head of All Saints Catholic College in Kensington, warned that vaping in London schools is still a “huge issue”

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