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Early intervention could reduce your risk of developing dementia-related disease

The Health Secretary said the unions’ action is ‘deeply regrettable’ but his ‘number one priority’ is patient safety.

Royal College of Nursing chief Pat Cullen called on the Prime Minister to come to the negotiating table after Health Secretary Steve Barclay twice refused to discuss pay in meetings with the nurses’ union

Eleventh-hour talks to avert the industrial action have failed

The Welsh Lib Dems say 'it is a disgrace' that children 'are left languishing on waiting lists potentially with rotting teeth'

Bodies representing NHS care in England also call for Rishi Sunak intervention but PM refuses to budge on pay

Paul Calvert fears that NHS whistleblowers will see how he has been told he will lose his job and be discouraged from speaking up about safety concerns

His answers to the chairs of Commons select committees are robotic, as if from a meaningless management dashboard

Ambulance workers, paramedics, technicians, call handlers and other NHS staff will walk out in England and Wales in the coming days, in planned industrial action that will affect non-life threatening calls. It comes as the UK faces weeks of strikes across different sectors. Here we look at everything you need…

In the West Midlands ‘extreme pressure’ forced A&E departments to turn patients away

Grim figures from NHS England reveal that 93 people died while being transferred from ambulances to the wards in 2021/22, compared to 40 the previous year