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Call for action on maternity care rather than another public inquiry

By Lee Peart 05 January 2026

Donna Ockenden has urged health and social care secretary Wes Streeting to focus on ‘implementation’ after he suggested the Government could launch a public inquiry into maternity care.

DIGITAL

AI tackles A&E bottlenecks

By Liz Wells 02 January 2026

Patients could be seen quicker this winter as hospitals across England increasingly use AI to help predict when A&E departments will be busiest.

AMBULANCE FLEET

NHS England deploys new ambulances to boost winter response

By Liz Wells 02 January 2026

More than 500 new ambulances are being deployed in England to cut response times for patients in every region.

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'Unacceptably long waiting times' found for adult gender services

By Lee Peart 19 December 2025

A review of NHS adult gender services has found ‘unacceptably long waiting times’ and ‘significant variation’ in quality and productivity.

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BREAKING NEWS: Mental Health Bill receives Royal Assent

By Lee Peart 18 December 2025

The granting of Royal Assent for the Mental Health Bill has been hailed as an ‘important and long overdue step forward’.

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Strike action piles pressure on NHS amid record flu levels

By Lee Peart 18 December 2025

BMA strike action is ‘piling on the pressure’ this week as the NHS tries to cope with record hospital admissions, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said.

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'We will not cut NHS budgets to fund this,' Streeting assures on US pharma deal

By Lee Peart 18 December 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said NHS budgets and frontline services will not be cut to fund the US pharma deal.

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Government accused of not hearing black mothers' voices

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

MPs have accused the Government of not hearing the voices of black mothers.

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NHS braced for damaging wave of strikes

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

NHS providers are bracing for a damaging wave of strike action in the run up to Christmas in a bitter dispute with the BMA.

DENTISTRY

Reforms 'first step towards new era for NHS dentistry', says DHSC

By Lee Peart 16 December 2025

A raft of reforms announced today amount to the ‘most significant modernisation of the NHS dental contract in years’, the Government has claimed.

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Call for winter discharge unit as patients wait months to leave hospital

By Lee Peart 15 December 2025

The Liberal Democrats have called on the Government to set up a £90m winter discharge unit after revealing patients were waiting months to leave hospital.