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The Latest Breaking News from NHS

Top 10 most read news stories of 2024 on The Standard's website

It wasn’t Brat summer or the general election that came top

Evening Standard

Scandal-hit nursing regulator accused of covering up critical internal review

Exclusive: The Nursing and Midwifery Council under fire again in wake of series of investigations by The Independent

The Independent UK

Leaky ceilings and sinking floors: inside St Helier hospital where staff fear for patients

St Helier’s NHS trust had been promised new building – but faces uncertainty after project put under review by chancellor

The Guardian - UK

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England’s rundown hospitals are ‘outright dangerous’, say NHS chiefs

Exclusive: Structural weaknesses are threatening operating theatres, intensive care units and cancer units

The Guardian - UK

Counter-terror powers will ‘make the difference’ to border security – Labour MP

Mike Tapp said the proposed Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will allow ‘disruptive techniques’ to tackle people smuggling.

Evening Standard

Warning over baby slings after boy died during ‘hands-free’ breastfeeding

Very little safety information about the baby carriers is available to parents, a coroner warned.

The Independent UK

‘Exhausting, expensive and soul-destroying’: one NHS worker’s infertility journey

Alison Howie, a physiotherapist, tried to get pregnant over 10 years. The experience left her feeling she needed to quit her job

The Guardian - UK

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UK ministers warned housing crisis puts plans for NHS and economy at risk

Damning report reveals million in England are living in poor-quality housing that threatens their health

The Guardian - UK

Scots to elect large pro-independence majority in 2026 Holyrood vote, poll finds

THE SNP are on course to remain the dominant party in Scottish politics at the 2026 Holyrood election, new polling has found ...

The National (Scotland)

NHS delays may drive patients to buy unsafe weight-loss drugs, says top GP

People warned against buying illegal weight-loss medicines through beauty salons or fake pharmacy websites

The Guardian - UK

Long waiting lists for NHS weight loss services ‘driving unsafe buying of jabs’

A top GP has urged people to seek help before purchasing weight loss jabs online.

Evening Standard

Continuing healthcare payments that are too hard to get

Letters: Hardly anyone hears about CHC payments, where the NHS covers all the costs of care, without having done a lot of digging and searching, writes Dr Michael Duxbury

The Guardian - UK

The 5 worst cyberattacks of 2024

2024 was another bumper year for cyber attacks. Here's my rundown of the most serious situations we saw in the last twelve months.

TechRadar

Controversial face-down restraint still being used for mental health patients in England

Dangerous practice was supposed to be phased out but new data reveals thousands of incidents every year

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

What the papers say – December 29

Here are the biggest stories leading Sunday’s front pages.

Evening Standard

How the CrowdStrike outage made IT supply chains the new big issue in tech

The CrowdStrike outages, which brought infrastructure around the world to a standstill, placed new focus on IT supply chains.

The Guardian - UK

NHS patients at risk as hospital urgent repair costs triple in decade

Cost of maintenance backlog has increased dramatically since 2015 and health service lost 600 days of clinical time to related incidents in the past year

The Independent UK

NHS warns people with norovirus to stay at home as infections soar

‘If you catch it; stay home, rest and have plenty of fluids,’ NHS warns

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Woman & Home

How to get 10,000 steps in without leaving the house - with just 6 simple activities

Knowing how to get 10,000 steps in without leaving the house comes in useful for busy days or rainy ones, where you'd rather do anything but leave the house

The Guardian - UK

Black cancer patients in England less likely to feel supported in hospital, says charity

Macmillan Cancer Support criticises unacceptable variations in people’s cancer care

The Guardian - UK

One in five Britons would use weight-loss drug if free on NHS, poll reveals

Survey also finds one in seven have either taken such jabs themselves or know someone who has

The Independent UK

AI tool can find people with heart condition who have no symptoms

Researchers are assessing the impact of the algorithm at GP surgeries in West Yorkshire.

The Guardian - UK

Schools, hospitals and prisons among England’s crumbling public buildings

Guardian analysis finds 1.6 million pupils in schools in need of repair, while some NHS sites endanger patients and staff

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings

Underinvestment has led to crumbling infrastructure in schools, hospitals and courts, Guardian study shows

The Guardian - UK

Allow more people in UK with lung cancer symptoms to self-refer for tests, say experts

Making it easier to get chest X-rays, rather than having to wait for a GP referral, could improve survival rates, finds study

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