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London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate

Royal Free hospital makes move as number of women having babies in borough declines by almost 30%

The Guardian - UK

Veronica Smith obituary

Other lives: Nurse whose experience of having to give up her child in the 1960s led her to co-found the Movement for Adoption Apology

The Guardian - UK

Protesters target Royal Free hospital over possible closure of maternity unit

Local MP warns that changes to maternity services would be damaging for mothers and babies

Evening Standard

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Plans to close north London maternity services would have 'devastating impact', warn MPs

NHS is consulting on whether to close units at Royal Free or Whittington Hospital due to 'falling birth rate' in area

Evening Standard

A hospital helped me and my baby at our most vulnerable. I wish I could protect it now

Many mothers feel a bond with the people who support them through childbirth: seeing them anxious about their jobs is hard to bear, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

‘Less daunting’: inside the new education unit in north London supporting school refusers

The Royal Free hospital children’s school is running programmes at the renovated Konstam Centre in Camden

The Guardian - UK

Falling local birth rate could force north London maternity services to close

Maternity services at the Royal Free and the Whittington could be shut under NHS plans

Evening Standard

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Doctor accused of organ trafficking posed as cousin of donor, UK court told

Obinna Obeta’s successful transplant allegedly then inspired plot to bring man from Nigeria to donate a kidney

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian senator accused of ‘organ harvesting plot’ at Royal Free Hospital

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, are accused of a plot to harvest the organ of an impoverished street trader from the Nigerian capital of Lagos

Evening Standard

Beulah Ainley obituary

Other lives: Nurse and midwife who moved into journalism and was instrumental in the establishment of the George Viner Memorial Fund

The Guardian - UK

My brain is shrinking – and so is my world. Could I find out what’s wrong with me?

First, the veteran Guardian foreign affairs correspondent found himself lost for words; then he started falling while out jogging. He and his wife Helen Harris try to make sense of a life-changing year

The Guardian - UK

‘Cancer treatment means I’d be well placed as health secretary,’ Wes Streeting says

The Shadow Health Secretary described ‘one of the most difficult periods of my life’

Evening Standard

‘117,000 die on waiting lists for NHS’

Figures reveal double the number of deaths than before the pandemic as 6.5 million wait for treatment

Evening Standard

More than 900,000 patients waiting for hospital care in London, NHS figures show

More than 900,000 patients are waiting for hospital care in London, NHS figures revealed on Thursday.

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Woman in UK diagnosed with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

Potentially fatal viral disease caused by ticks and livestock identified only twice before in Britain

Evening Standard

Documentary shows stark reality of NHS staff burnout as waiting lists mount

The scale of the challenge facing the NHS in recovering from the pandemic while reducing a waiting list of more than six million patients is laid bare by a TV documentary.

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