Search results for ‘department of health’
846 items found
-
7m
Department of Health forced to scrap how it sources medical gloves for NHS after supplier accused of modern slavery
The Department of Health has been forced to scrap the way it sources medical gloves for the NHS – after its buyers paid millions to a supplier accused of modern slavery. It follows a landmark legal case which challenged the government’s decision to include the Malaysian glove manufacturer Supermax as an approved NHS supplier, despite…
-
4m
‘Sajid Javid’s appointment offers real opportunities to deal with underlying problems’, says former department of health permanent secretary
We were joined by Dame Una O’brien, who was permanent secretary at the Department of Health from 2010 until 2016.
-
Department of Health loses abortion secrecy bid
The Government has lost a legal battle to keep data on late-term abortions out of the public domain despite warning of “awful consequences” if women are identified.
-
4m
Health Department reduced to ‘smoking ruin’ by Covid, says Cummings
Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, has told MPs that the Department of Health was reduced to a “smoking ruin” as it struggled during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic in England. Mr Cummings was in the Commons to tell MPs how the government’s new advanced scientific research agency should be run. A…
-
5m
‘We’ve done exactly what we said we would do’ – Health Secretary
One major crisis facing the country that was notably absent from the King’s Speech was social care, despite its impact on the NHS.
-
5m
NHS going through “worst crisis in its history” says Health Secretary
We spoke to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting and asked him if he was prepared to think the unthinkable when it comes to the NHS?
-
7m
Mental health crisis: patients left for days in A&E as hospitals struggle to cope
Mental health patients in crisis are spending days and days in England’s emergency departments before getting appropriate care.
-
4m
Health crisis: NHS England patients waiting for hospital treatment hits record high
Before winter has even arrived the NHS in England is already coming under increased pressure with waiting lists at an all time high and critical incidents being declared at trusts across the country.
-
9m
‘Catastrophic collision of failures’ revealed in mental health services
An exclusive Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered an 800% increase over the past five years in coroners issuing official warnings about cases involving mental health issues.
-
5m
Government must ‘act now’ to bring down Covid cases, public health expert says
Is the UK going to have to change course on Covid in the face of rising cases, hospitalisations and deaths?
-
FactCheck Q&A: vaccinating healthy 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid
Millions of youngsters have already had the jab in other countries.
-
FactCheck: health minister’s incorrect herd immunity claims
Nadine Dorries claimed ‘there is no such thing as herd immunity’.
-
Free visa extensions to be granted to health and care workers
The Home Secretary is to grant free visa extensions across the health and care sectors.
-
Health Secretary says ‘obviously I worry’ about coronavirus outbreak
Krishnan spoke to Health Secretary Matt Hancock at the Department of Health.
-
Jeremy Hunt admits false claims over mental health
Speaking on World Mental Health Day, the health secretary told MPs: “We’ve got 30,000 more people working in mental health today than we had when [Labour] left office.” But when questioned by FactCheck, the Department for Health admitted that Mr Hunt’s figure includes all professionally qualified clinical NHS staff in England – not just those working in mental health.
