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The Standard View: Don’t call 999 unless you really need to

TOMORROW, London ambulance staff are set to go on strike for the second time since December. Accordingly, the plea from the head of the London Ambulance Service, Daniel Elkeles, is that we should only call an ambulance in a “life or limb-threatening emergency”. That is sensible advice. Indeed, most of…

Evening Standard

Sharp rise in UK excess deaths at end of 2022 amid flu surge and NHS crisis

Deaths in last week of 202 were 20 per cent above average

Evening Standard

NHS bosses warn today’s ambulance strike will hit harder as Londoners warned: ‘Only call 999 if it’s life or limb’

Fears ‘even more precarious’ position of health service means today’s walkout will be more difficult to cope with

Evening Standard

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GMB's Richard Madeley sparks fury as he asks NHS doctor if Rishi Sunak should have to wait in A&E

The Good Morning Britain host was accused of 'spectacularly missing the point' as he questioned whether the PM should have to spend hours in A&E when he's 'got a country to run'

Chronicle Live

Plea from North West Ambulance bosses ahead of tomorrow's strike

Strike action is planned for this Wednesday

Liverpool Echo

Senior doctor says new Royal Liverpool Hospital 'harming patients and city'

The move to the new hospital has coincided with the winter crisis facing the NHS

Liverpool Echo

North East Ambulance Service urges public to use service "wisely" during strikes

The service has issued the guidance on Wednesday's strike after talks fell through with no deal earlier on Monday

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The worrying image that shows the NHS crisis is here to stay

One picture from within Aintree Hospital has left people particularly worried and angry about the state of the health service

Liverpool Echo

NHS to buy care beds for thousands of patients stuck in hospitals in emergency plan

Health Secretary Steve Barclay will today unveil a emergency winter package to alleviate the intense pressures on emergency departments - but care bosses warned it would not fix the crisis

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak urged by senior A&E doctor to accept NHS in ‘crisis’

‘The first step is to accept it’s not just busy or under pressure but it’s a crisis,’ says Dr Rob Galloway, an emergency medicine consultant at the Brighton and Sussex University NHS Trust

Evening Standard

When state services fail, citizens pay extra or sink. This is Sunak’s Britain now

I’ve seen what happens in countries when wealthy people go private and the rest suffer. Now that’s life here too, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK

NHS heroes crying in car parks as patients that could have been saved pass away

Up to 500 people a week are dying because of delays in emergency care as demand reaches breaking point

Wales Online

Crisis in A&E medicine cannot be blamed on pandemic, warns senior medic

Royal College of Emergency Medicine president Adrian Boyle was among health leaders who attended the Prime Minister’s winter crisis talks.

The Independent UK

Hospitals in crisis as '27 ambulances outside A&E and patients treated in corridors'

Medics from Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have urged health bosses to declare a critical incident after pressure increases on the sites

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Daily Mirror

Exhausted NHS heroes crying in car parks after losing lives that could be saved

In a harrowing account, junior doctor Andrew Meyerson, 40, said: colleagues were "crying in the car park, devastated and shell-shocked, haunted by the substandard care that they have been forced to deliver"

Glasgow Live

Two Glasgow hospitals 'close to collapse' as 27 ambulances queue outside Royal Infirmary

Top A&E medics have demanded “critical incident status” options for Scotland's crisis-hit hospitals as patients face waits of over 12 hours and being treated in corridors.

Daily Record

Scots photographer spent 36 hours in A&E in agony after developing back problem

Dave Johnston, 55, from Edinburgh, describes how he saw an NHS stretched to its limit.

Daily Record

Forty people dying every week in Scots A&E crisis as politicians demand action

Medics, unions and opposition politicians have called it a “catastrophe” and demanded Health Secretary Humza Yousaf takes action immediately.

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Sunak tells health leaders a bold approach will fix NHS

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told a gathering of health and social-care leaders that a “bold and radical approach” is needed to end the crisis at the country’s National Health Service.

The Independent UK

Sunak urges ‘bold and radical’ action from health leaders amid NHS crisis

The Prime Minister held emergency talks on Saturday.

Daily Mirror

Doctor who helped launch his 'beloved' NHS in 1948 shedding tears over shambles

Professor Harold Ellis says that bed-cutting by the Tories is partly to blame for the current crisis which is overwhelming his 'beloved' NHS and leaving hospitals unable to cope

Irish Mirror

Paramedics at 'breaking point' amid demand surge as flu, Covid and other illnesses wreak havoc

The National Ambulance Service needs at least an extra 2,000 staff along with 120 new ambulances to meet the current demand

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak: I will cut NHS waiting lists ‘no ifs, no buts’

The Prime Minister hosted health leaders including England’s chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty on Saturday to discuss the winter crisis within the NHS

Liverpool Echo

A&E doctors: 'This isn't healthcare, it's a lottery whether you will survive'

Emergency doctors on the frontline of the health service crisis speak out

Daily Mirror

NHS in crisis: The Brits who have died while waiting hours for ambulances

Paul Westerman, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, became one of the latest people to die in the UK following long waits for ambulances

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