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The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

Experts criticise Streeting for saying mental health problems overdiagnosed

Health secretary’s comments that too many people are ‘written off’ prompts warnings against stigmatising people

The Guardian - UK

Doctors ‘overdiagnosing’ mental health conditions, says Streeting

Mental health charity Mind said it was important to be careful with the language around mental health diagnoses to avoid ‘stigmatising’.

Evening Standard

Doctors are ‘overdiagnosing’ mental health conditions, says Streeting

Mental health charity Mind said it was important to be careful with the language around mental health diagnoses to avoid ‘stigmatising’.

The Independent UK

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Wes Streeting confronted on accusations of ‘Labour changing into Tories’ over welfare reform

Wes Streeting was confronted over accusations that Labour is "changing into the Tories" due to the government's welfare reforms.

The Independent UK

Russian confrontation with peacekeepers ‘would be an extraordinary escalation’

Planning for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine has entered the ‘operational phase’, the Prime Minister announced on Saturday.

Evening Standard

Streeting ‘genuinely sorry’ for anxiety over job losses amid war on quangos

The Health Secretary said there will be ‘significant’ job cuts as a result of the Government’s shake-up of NHS administration.

Evening Standard

NHS is ‘addicted to overspending’, warns Wes Streeting as he admits there will be significant job losses

The health secretary suggested hundreds more quangos could be in the firing line, warning that scrapping NHS England was ‘the beginning, not the end’

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Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions

Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare

The Guardian - UK

Health Secretary declines to be drawn on benefit freeze ‘speculation’

Reports suggest the Government could be preparing to abandon plans to freezethe personal independence payment.

Evening Standard

Labour consider benefits cuts U-turn after backlash from MPs

CONTROVERSIAL proposals to cut PIP may be dropped after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs, according to reports

The National (Scotland)

Deploying top doctors in high joblessness areas cuts NHS wait lists – Streeting

The Health Secretary started the scheme in September, tasking the clinicians with improving care in 20 areas.

The Independent UK

Cuts to welfare. Cuts to international aid. Has Labour lurched too far to the right?

People on benefits are worried and some MPs are talking of ‘cruelty’. Is Keir Starmer’s plan to cut public spending a betrayal of his party’s values?

The Guardian - UK

Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet

Expert clinicians are being dispatched to areas with high levels of unemployment

The Independent UK

Streeting: I’ll get rid of more NHS quangos and slash bloated bureaucracy

Keir Starmer announces he will be abolishing NHS England to avoid ‘duplication’

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The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting warns hundreds more health quangos could face axe

Health secretary says the scrapping of NHS England is ‘beginning, not end’ of bid to slash ‘bloated bureaucracy’

The Independent UK

More quangos could be in firing line after NHS England scrapped – Streeting

Wes Streeting said his team would have a ‘relentless’ focus on ‘slashing bloated bureaucracy’.

Evening Standard

More quangos could be in firing line after NHS England scrapped, says Streeting

Wes Streeting said his team would have a ‘relentless’ focus on ‘slashing bloated bureaucracy’ in the NHS

The Independent UK

Voices: Keir Starmer has been on a journey: From Corbynism to being ‘more Tory than Tony Blair’

COMMENT: And yet Labour MPs and members are remarkably quiet – that will not last, predicts John Rentoul

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The Guardian - UK

30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS

Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%

The Guardian - UK

How did Andrew Lansley reorganise health and create NHS England?

Former Tory health minister’s 2012 scheme marked the biggest reorganisation in NHS history

The Independent UK

What could Labour abolish next after NHS England was scrapped?

There are more than 300 ‘quangos’ in the UK – and the largest is now set to be axed

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Is the abolition of NHS England snake oil or a miracle cure?

In today’s newsletter: Arguments for and against Labour’s surprise closure of quango at top of the health service

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting squirms when asked if scrapping NHS England means job losses for doctors and nurses

Wes Streeting squirmed when asked if abolishing NHS England to bring the health service back into government control would result in job losses for doctors and nurses.

The Guardian - UK

Streeting’s ‘shock’ at scale of NHS struggles inspires big political gamble

Health secretary consistently rejected notion of axing NHS England on the basis of legal challenge he must now tackle

The Independent UK

Abolishing NHS England gets full marks for ambition

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: It’s an extremely bold decision by Starmer to overhaul Britain’s biggest employer but it’s a task every government has attempted – and so far failed

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