Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set out a ‘purposefully ambitious’ target for the NHS to carry out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks by March 2029.
Concerns have been raised over delays to compensation paid to families of victims of the infected blood scandal.
‘Large unanswered questions’ remain if the assisted dying Bill is to become law, a think-tank has said.
Extra capacity will be deployed to reduce waiting lists in 20 NHS Trusts across England with the highest levels of economic inactivity as part of employment reforms unveiled by the Government.
The NHS is around £650m off plan after the first six months of the current financial year, the Public Accounts Committee was told today.
Plaid Cymru has pledged to change NHS governance in Wales to improve outcomes for patients and future proof services.
Lord Darzi has laid bare the scale of the challenges facing the NHS while giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee.
The NHS is spending too much on the ‘most expensive and often underperforming parts of its system’, a former Labour health minister has said.
The Liberal Democrats have called for more funding for social and an exemption from national insurance hikes after revealing six-month waits for care assessments have almost doubled.
The Liberal Democrats have repeated their call for an exemption for health and social care providers from the employers’ national insurance rise in the Autumn Budget.
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