With waiting times on the rise and a challenging winter ahead, analysts claim the ‘financial bottom line’ is being prioritisedRishi Sunak’s pledge to slash NHS waiting lists has effectively been downgraded, the...
Read MoreExclusive: Sir Mark Rowley’s drive to free up police time has won out after weeks of tense talksThe Metropolitan police has won its battle to stop attending most of the mental health calls it receives after a tense...
Read MoreHospitals chief says action ‘will pile even more pressure’ on already overstretched services and calls for talksAmbulance staff in the south-east of England are to strike over pay for the second time on Tuesday,...
Read MoreExclusive: Labour says ‘alarming’ NHS figures show rising number of people on waiting lists for support reaching out to 999 in a crisisAmbulance crews in England are spending 1.8m hours a year – the equivalent...
Read MoreRefuge warns of risk to abuse survivors, many of whom keep secret second phonesPeople at risk of domestic abuse have been advised to turn off any mobile device they want to keep hidden next Sunday, as ministers prepare to launch...
Read MoreInspectors say ‘deeply troubling’ behaviour found at fire and rescue services across England may be ‘tip of the iceberg’Every fire brigade in England is plagued with bullying, harassment and...
Read MoreExclusive: figure is more than double the comparable fatalities in 2021, in what a union calls a ‘hidden scandal’ of delaysMore than 500 seriously ill patients died last year before they could get treatment in...
Read MoreReplacement for Airwave system hit by fresh delays despite project already costing more than £2bnThe Home Office is still unable to say when a planned communications system for Great Britain’s blue light services...
Read MoreGMB, Unison and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy take up offer of talks after government concessionsThree health unions have agreed to call off strike action planned for next week and enter into pay talks with the health...
Read MoreExclusive: rise in typical delays from nine hours to 16 hours to get care or a bed puts over 80s at greater risk of dying, say doctorsThe amount of time people over 80 spend in A&E in England has almost doubled in a year,...
Read MoreInquest into case of a 61-year-old Norfolk woman left in an ambulance queue triggers challenge to Steve BarclayA coroner has urged the health secretary to take action to prevent needless deaths after a woman died of heart...
Read MoreAnalysis by Lib Dems shows total was at record high in 2022, and compares with 1,306 people waiting as long in 2015A record 350,000 patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital from A&E last year, according...
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