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Children still ‘waiting far too long’ for mental health care, commissioner warns

The most common reason for referral during the period was anxiety.

Evening Standard

‘Grit’ no substitute for better mental health funding for pupils in England, say experts

As education secretary unveils £49m for school-based support and calls for ‘grit’, charity says many children have significant treatment needs

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: Unemployment figures row and NHS appointments error

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

Evening Standard

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MP ‘will not be complicit’ in approving assisted dying law in safeguards call

Labour MP Naz Shah said: ‘I will not be complicit in that and I hope this House will not be either.’

The Independent UK

NHS landlord Assura attracts new offer from PHP as bidding war heats up

PHP’s offer outbids the £1.61 billion takeover price offered by US private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stonepeak Partners.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying: five questions that need answering before it can work in practice

An attempt to make assisted dying legal in England in Wales continues to make its way through parliament, with MPs currently scheduled to have a final vote on the bill in June.

The Conversation

Digested week: Keir, immigrants have made this stranger’s life immeasurably better

There may be a grownup conversation to be had about immigration, but the PM’s depressing speech wasn’t it. Plus, Trump’s flying freebie

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‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers

Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretaries

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: The deepening turmoil over the assisted dying bill

In today’s newsletter: As MPs return to the Commons today to debate the amended bill, emotions are running high and some are switching sides

The Guardian - UK

Voices: The burden of assisted dying should not be placed on doctors like us

COMMENT: Adding responsibility for administering the lethal drugs required to end someone’s life to the duties of a doctor is so counter to our overall purpose that it risks undermining the defining role of the profession, argue physicians Zoë Fritz and Sally Barker

The Independent UK

Scot tackles 100km desert trek two years after heart transplant

Fraser Wilson, 48, said the operation has been ‘life-changing’ for him.

The Independent UK

NHS gave private firms record £216m to examine X-rays in 2024

Failure to recruit NHS radiologists risks creating vicious cycle whereby doctors are drawn to private work, royal college says

The Guardian - UK

UK women driven to unregulated sperm donors by high treatment costs, experts say

One unregistered sperm donor who claims to have fathered 180 children has sought access to four children in the UK

The Guardian - UK

MP warns parts of crumbling London hospital may have to close as development works delayed

Large parts of St Helier are in severe disrepair, with lifts often out of order, leaking ceilings forcing and sinking floors forcing the hospital to temporarily close wards

Evening Standard

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Patient of suspended hospital surgeon says she wants answers

Chloe Humphries, of Newmarket, Suffolk, said that in 2015 surgeon Kuldeep Stohr operated on her knee.

Evening Standard

Criminals sent directly to jail hits six-year high amid summer disorder

The figures come just a day after the Justice Secretary announced changes to prison recall as a further emergency measure on prison overcrowding.

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Scotland’s largest NHS union accepts 8% pay increase

Unison said the Government must now act to ensure the wage hike gets into pay packets ‘as soon as possible’.

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Mental health trust boss offers apology to families at inquiry into deaths

The Lampard Inquiry, chaired by Baroness Kate Lampard, is examining deaths at NHS-run inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

Evening Standard

What the latest NHS hospital figures for England show

Ambulance response times for the most urgent incidents are their quickest in nearly four years.

Evening Standard

North-east London NHS trust pays nearly £70k over prescription mistakes

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University NHS Trust (BHRUT) paid £68,625 to five claimants

The Independent UK

NHS hospital waiting lists rise for first time in seven months

New figures show an estimated 7.42 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of March

Evening Standard

NHS waiting list for hospital treatment rises for first time in seven months

The data will be a blow to Labour, which is introducing ‘carrot and stick reforms’ for NHS leaders.

The Independent UK

NHS bosses told to reduce wait times or face pay cuts

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Evening Standard

Unite members accept 8% NHS pay deal

The deal includes a measure to ensure pay rises remain at least 1% above inflation.

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