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Matt Hancock defends Covid care home plan as ‘the least-worst decision’

A civil servant earlier this week described the toll as a ‘generational slaughter within care homes’

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Voices: Starmer has been given two black eyes by his party – but here’s how he could fight back

COMMENT: Bruised by his welfare reforms battle, the prime minister is on a hook of his own making. With a little help from Westminster, he can wriggle off, says Andrew Grice

The Independent UK

Hancock: Moving patients from hospitals to care homes was least-worst decision

Module six of the inquiry is focused on the effect the pandemic had on both the publicly and privately funded adult social care sector across the UK.

Evening Standard

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Patients risk being in ‘unnecessary pain’ over NHS minimum waits for treatment

Leaders have been told they may wish to set ‘activity planning assumptions’, which can include introducing minimum waiting times.

Evening Standard

Breast cancer charity slams NHS drug approval process

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The Independent UK

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Woman & Home

Cass review: how has report affected care for transgender young people?

Review led to profound changes, some of which made young people feel unsupported, yet new clinics are opening

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Lucy Letby Case Update: Are The Three Bosses At Chester Hospital Involved?

Three senior NHS leaders arrested in Lucy Letby case as police probe expands to gross negligence manslaughter. New questions over NHS accountability.

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NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medics

Government wants to cut annual intake of non-UK doctors from 34% to under 10% as part of 10-year plan

The Guardian - UK

UK’s obesity and overweight epidemic costs £126bn a year, study suggests

Exclusive: Experts say higher figure than past estimates should be wake-up call for ministers to tackle obesity

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of cancer patients denied key drug due to ‘unfair’ NHS rulings, says charity

Charity Breast Cancer Now says the process for NHS drug approval is ‘unfair’

The Independent UK

Digital ‘one stop shop’ for NHS will speed up care for patients, Government says

The new ‘innovator passport’ will mean technology that has been robustly assessed by one NHS organisation can easily be adopted by others.

Evening Standard

Record number of NHS operations given in private hospitals

Private hospitals carried out almost one in five NHS operations.

Evening Standard

Breast cancer patients ‘denied life-extending drugs because of unfair system’

Breast Cancer Now has demanded ‘immediate action’ from Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

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Households could receive £2,000 from water companies in first increase of compensation in quarter of a century

The government has announced the first increase in compensation rates in 25 years

The Independent UK

Almost one in five NHS operations now carried out in private hospitals

The waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has fallen to its lowest level for two years

The Guardian - UK

Women over 65 still at risk from cancer from HPV and should be offered cervical screening – study

Cases of cervical cancer among older people rising globally as research finds over-65s more likely to have HPV infections than younger women

Evening Standard

King and Queen begin Holyrood Week under guard of ceremonial female bodyguards

Charles and Camilla carried out solo engagements in Edinburgh before hosting a garden party later.

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After the welfare vote debacle, this much is clear: Starmer must change. Labour MPs will demand it

The anti-Tory energy that won the PM a majority last year has gone. He needs to give his old supporters new reasons to keep him in office, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

NHS earwax removal must be available to all

Letters: Responding to an article on ear health, Marna Blundy says people need good hearing to stay socially connected

The Independent UK

No need for ‘ventriloquists’ to give NHS patients a voice – Streeting

Wes Streeting suggested the patient safety landscape is ‘cluttered’, with NHS leaders receiving ‘competing and contradictory instructions’.

The Independent UK

Inside government’s plans to make NHS ‘fit for the future’

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Evening Standard

British doctors will be given priority for NHS jobs under plans to make the health service 'self-sufficient'

The plan looks to create a ‘self-sufficient’ workforce by 2035, saying that less than 10 per cent of new recruits should be from overseas

The Guardian - UK

NHS repeatedly failing in care of stroke patients, watchdog says

Health ombudsman says number of last-resort investigations into care in England up two-thirds in four years

The Independent UK

Six ‘stubborn’ barriers stopping parents from vaccinating their children

The uptake of vaccines in the UK has stalled over the last decade and is, in many cases, declining

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