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The Latest Breaking News on Long waits persist for Victorian ambulances, surgery

PM warned 'emergency' NHS meeting won't ease pressure after 'years of inaction'

The Prime Minister is holding rare weekend talks with health leaders - after senior medics said the health service was on a knife edge with many A&E units struggling to keep up with demand and trusts and ambulance services declaring critical incidents

Daily Mirror

UK leader calls crisis meeting over struggling health system

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is gathering government ministers, medics and health service managers in 10 Downing St. for talks aimed at fixing a health care crisis that has seen thousands of patients stranded outside overflowing hospitals

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak holds emergency talks with NHS leaders over winter crisis

Prime minister hosts rare weekend meeting but Labour says patients deserve more than ‘talking shop’

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Rishi Sunak holds emergency talks in bid to ease winter NHS crisis

PM meets health experts including Professor Sir Chris Whitty

The Independent UK

Scottish Government must intervene and prevent further NHS 'chaos'

Record Views say the NHS is at 'bursting point' and is calling on the Scottish Government to intervene.

Daily Record

Rishi Sunak to hold emergency No 10 talks in bid to ease NHS winter care crisis

But Mr Sunak has been warned that the rare weekend meeting is unlikely to reverse the NHS’ fortunes, which have been blamed on 'years of inaction'

Wales Online

Sunak to hold emergency No 10 talks in bid to ease winter care crisis

But health leaders said the meeting would not be able to reverse ‘years of inaction and managed decline’ in the NHS.

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Rishi Sunak calls crunch talks with health leaders to fix NHS crisis

Prime minister calls meeting at No 10 ahead of junior doctors’ strike ballot

The Independent UK

PM to host NHS Recovery Forum with health and care experts in Downing Street

The forum will focus on four areas: social care and delayed discharge; urgent and emergency care; elective care; and primary care.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak's bid to summon health leaders on NHS crisis is 'too little, too late'

The Prime Minister will stage an 'NHS Recovery Forum' with health leaders and experts - but critics slammed the move saying 'patients deserve more than a talking shop'

Daily Mirror

Doctors claim hospital discharge guidance could see patients die

The British Medical Association claims any decision to discharge patients from wards without proper social care support would 'transfer the liability and risk to clinicians'

Wales Online

'The current state of the NHS leaves me sick to my stomach - it's terrifying'

In this week's column Val, the mum of Mirror columnist and football legend Robbie Savage, says telling people to stay away from A&E because it’s full of flu and Covid patients leads to deaths

Daily Mirror

More than 2,600 ambulance workers from Unite to join existing strike

Industrial action on 23 January in England and Wales will coincide with strike by Unison members

The Guardian - UK

Britain's NHS nightmare: How COVID-19, cost-cutting and burnout pushed the UK's health system to the brink

British doctors are risking their jobs to speak out against what they say is an unfolding catastrophe in the national health system, with patients left lying on hospital floors and in corridors while they wait for help.

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Ambulance workers announce new strike date later this month in row over pay and working conditions

In excess of 2,600 ambulance workers across the North East, North West, East Midlands, West Midlands, and Wales will participate in strike action.

Wales Online

NHS Wales boss addresses plans to discharge patients from hospital without care packages

Chief executive of NHS Wales, Judith Paget, said patients at the "lowest risk" needed to be discharged to make way for high risk patients

Wales Online

Ambulance workers announce fresh strike date

Unite said more staff would be taking part this time around

The Independent UK

Unite ambulance workers to stage further strike

Unite said its ambulance members will walk out on January 23.

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The Independent UK

Unite ambulance workers to go on strike in January in dispute over pay

Unite ambulance workers will strike on January 23 in their dispute over pay, the union announced.

Daily Mirror

Ambulance workers announce new January strike date in pay dispute

Ambulance workers at Unite union have announced a strike date at the end of January - with walkouts by paramedics and 999 call handlers already planning to walk out at two other unions

Daily Record

Call in the Army to boost capacity across the NHS in Scotland, urges Labour

Soldiers were brought in to drive ambulances during the height of the covid pandemic and Labour has now called for similar action.

Evening Standard

More ambulances wait an hour for London A&Es as city’s health crisis grows

Ambulances arriving at London hospitals are facing growing delays in handing over patients to A&E

Daily Record

Christmas A&E waiting times in Forth Valley branded "shocking" as more than 150 wait 12 hours or more

The data puts Forth Valley as the second worst performing health board over the week around Christmas.

The Guardian - UK

Quarter of ambulance patients in England wait an hour to get into A&E after arrival

Waiting times for admission to A&E in last week of year likely to be highest recorded by the service

The Independent UK

Record number of ambulances queuing outside A&E over Christmas

Flu cases also continue to rise amid bed shortages as NHS tackles one of its most difficult periods in history

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