Twelve midwife-led maternity units have closed in England since 2019 with six closing since Labour came to power in 2024NHS officials are shutting growing numbers of birth centres in a “shocking” denial of a woman’s right to...
Read MoreHealth secretary says government has been preparing early and will spend money on ambulances and A&E upgradesThe NHS faces a more challenging winter than normal, the health secretary has warned, as she announced a £140m...
Read MoreHealth secretary says extreme demand no longer confined to winter as service in England warns of knock-on effectsThe NHS faced the “busiest summer in its history” as the UK experienced a series of heatwaves, health officials...
Read MoreThere are more than 70,000 hysteroscopies every year in England alone. The NHS calls them ‘low complexity’ – yet a shocking number of patients complain of inadequate pain relief and medical staff who refuse to take them...
Read MoreConcerns about feeling pressure to have caesarean section, or paying for hotel in Exeter after hospital in Barnstaple suspends birthing servicesFor mother-to-be Harriet Knight, the suspension of maternity services at one of...
Read MoreYvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerableOn the third day of being in labour with my first child, I entered a new state of being. It was time to dig...
Read MoreHealth secretary says global heating means UK hospitals and GPs will have to prepare for summer as well as winter peaks of demandAdapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?The NHS has been...
Read MoreExclusive: New health secretary promises root-and-branch reform after damning maternity scandalsWomen should not feel pressurised into experiencing an “ideal birth”, the new health secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said, promising a...
Read MoreNeil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and their families are asking...
Read MoreMPs hear current plans fall ‘far short of what is needed’ with many deaths expected and children baking in classroomsThe UK government is facing increasingly urgent calls for action to protect people against the intensifying...
Read MoreJournalist and healthcare campaigner was driving force behind patient safety initiative after death of 13-year-old daughterThe healthcare campaigner and journalist Merope Mills has been made a CBE in the king’s birthday honours...
Read MoreBMA blames new health secretary for decision to stage 16th strike in long-running jobs and pay disputeUK politics live – latest updatesResident doctors in England will next month stage the 16th strike in their long-running jobs...
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