NHS

In your hospital or your GP surgery,  there could be a member of staff most people have never heard of  – physician associates.

The public engagement exercise is billed as the biggest national conversation about the future of the NHS since its birth, with the ‘entire country’ called upon to share their experiences and ideas.

Channel 4 News has found that there are concerns over the flagship scheme, Pharmacy First.

“Please help me get enough food to live.” The desperate words of Maeve Boothby O Neill, a young woman who died aged just 27 – nine years after being diagnosed with ME, the long term neurological condition which causes debilitating pain and fatigue. 

Reform UK leader Richard Tice tells Cathy Newman his net-zero migration policy will improve the NHS and economic growth.

It’s no coincidence that the next three days of the Conservative Party Conference will also see the biggest walkout by NHS doctors in history.

We spoke to the Conservative MP Steve Brine, who chairs the Health and Social Care Committee.

Now this year has been marked by repeated strike action across the UK: today it was England’s NHS consultants walking out again. 

The mother of a young transgender woman who took her own life has paid tribute at the inquest into her daughter’s death – describing her as “full of beauty and grace”.

Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.

Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes. 

Wes Streeting MP joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about his journey from a Stepney council estate to the Labour frontbench in Westminster, his optimism that poverty is a trap we can escape and his vision for an NHS ‘fit for the future’ on the eve of the 2024 UK general election, on this week’s Ways to Change the World podcast.

But three quarters of a century into its existence, the NHS seems to need ever more doctors and nurses to keep it going.

The former health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for mistakes that meant the United Kingdom was not properly prepared for Covid-19. 

We speak to Dr Vishal Sharma, a consultant cardiologist and chairs the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee.