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Infected blood scandal: inquiry to call for prosecution of those responsible

Report from official inquiry due to present findings in what has been described as biggest treatment disaster in history of NHS

The Guardian - UK

Liz Wolstenholme obituary

Other lives: Advocate for closer links between health and social care services who wrote the national framework for NHS Continuing Health Care

The Guardian - UK

Prof Andrea Mechelli: ‘People who live near green space are less likely to struggle with mental health issues’

The scientist leading a study into how the urban environment affects our wellbeing on the surprising and lasting psychological benefits of even just a small dose of nature

The Guardian - UK

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Keep forgetting things? Worried about your brain? Here’s what I learned when I had mine scanned

From dementia to mild cognitive impairment, it’s easy to be terrified of what ageing will do our minds. But the vast majority of us can reduce the danger – especially if we look after our bodies

The Guardian - UK

'All roads lead back to Westminster': Labour make major admission on NHS

WES Streeting was challenged on his party’s attacks on the SNP for their management of the NHS – after he was told there were “terrible…

The National (Scotland)

‘It was smart to marry the competition’: meet the ‘power couples’ who work together

Meet four couples who are married to each other – and the job. Yes, it can get shouty, but knowing your partner so well brings unexpected benefits, both to the working relationship and to time at home

The Guardian - UK

Heart patients forced to wait over a year for treatment in England

Waiting lists are at a record high, almost double since 2020, with heart disease being the largest cause of premature death in deprived areas

The Guardian - UK

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Why Scotland should join Europe and start talking about cannabis legalisation

IT’S often said by proponents of the drug that the most dangerous thing about cannabis is getting caught with it.

The National (Scotland)

Hospitals to share waiting lists under Labour plans for quicker care

Party says pooling resources across regions would deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week for patients

The Guardian - UK

Labour pledges 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week

The £1.1bn scheme would be funded by cracking down on tax dodgers and people with non-domiciled status

The Independent UK

NHS must listen to whistleblowers, says health secretary

Victoria Atkins says she has asked officials to look into claims doctors and nurses who have spoken up were mistreated

The Guardian - UK

Alcohol abuse costing £27bn a year in England, new study finds

Alcohol abuse is costing England a whopping £27bn a year, a new study has estimated.

Evening Standard

Infected blood scandal – what you need to know

The infected blood scandal has been hailed the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. Over 3,000 people have died as a result of receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and it is estimated that an infected person still dies every four days.

The Conversation

‘They call us the fatherless ones’: the trauma of families devastated by the infected blood scandal will last for generations

On the day of her uncle’s funeral in 1995, Jane’s life changed forever.* That was when she found out her uncle Edward, a person with haemophilia, had been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from the treatment he was taking for his condition.

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The Guardian - UK

Maternity services are failing mothers and babies, and it’s not just down to austerity

Letters: Medical professionals and women who had bad experiences themselves respond to the findings of the birth trauma report

The Guardian - UK

Alcohol abuse costing £27bn a year in England

Exclusive: Experts call for higher taxes and tougher regulation as research shows cost to NHS, other public services and economy

The National (Scotland)

'So rude': Stephen Flynn interrupted almost 40 times on Question Time

THE BBC has been accused of having a "general antipathy" towards the SNP after the party's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn was found to…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rachel Reeves' Hammersmith Bridge vow shows Labour's conundrum

Stop me if you've heard this one before. The shadow chancellor appeared on the radio this morning and, when asked about a crumbling corner of the public realm, agreed it was bad and said a Labour government would fix it. Pressed on whether she was actually committing any funding towards this,…

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The Independent UK

Voters back taxing rich more to help pay for NHS, poll finds – as report shows Sunak wealthier than the King

Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty’s personal wealth surged by more than £120m over past year, Sunday Times Rich List suggests

The Guardian - UK

I love being a pharmacist, but the UK’s drug shortage makes me want to give up – and Brexit makes it worse

Telling patients I can’t get their life-saving medication is awful. The government must act to prevent a real tragedy, says pharmacist Mike Hewitson

The National (Scotland)

'Hold on a minute': Stephen Flynn continuously interrupted on BBC Question Time

STEPHEN Flynn was interrupted multiple times by almost all the panel as he tried to speak on the economy on last night's BBC Question Time ...

The National (Scotland)

Mark Brown: The sale of Summerhall reveals the sorry state of Scotland’s arts

THE news, announced on Tuesday of this week, that the Summerhall arts centre in Edinburgh is up for sale on the open market has caused dismay among…

The Guardian - UK

‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’: the former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims

Andy Evans was injecting his own clotting protein at three, and was 13 when he found it had given him HIV. Now he campaigns for fellow survivors – and the truth about the contamination scandal

The Guardian - UK

Patients in England want right to see GPs with 24 hours enshrined in NHS

Royal College of GPs says constitution guarantee would just pile on pressure given loss of 1,000 practices in past 10 years

The Guardian - UK

Hospitals struggle as social care crisis cancels out funding boost, NHS report says

The number of people stuck in hospital for more than three weeks has risen 15% on pre-Covid levels

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