Health: Theresa May pressured to address social care issues
The pressures on health and social care this winter have been hard to ignore.
In the week that Brexit finally became real: you might be expecting a financial bonanza before too long. But there’s no £350m a week for the NHS yet.
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of London to demonstrate their support for the NHS. Organisers described the national protest as a rallying call to save the health service from further austerity, with the chancellor under pressure to find more money for social care in next week’s budget.
One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, 85 per cent of those in the first 12 weeks.
The pressures on health and social care this winter have been hard to ignore.
Doctors have responded with fury to the prime minister’s demands to open seven days a week – with some claiming they’ll quit the health service altogether.
Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston – who chairs the commons health select committee.
Patients waiting more than four hours in A&E: a target missed by almost every major emergency department in England according to new figures.
In the Commons today the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Theresa May of being in denial in a Prime Minister’s Question Time dominated by the NHS.
Conservative MP and former health minister Dan Poulter, who still works as a doctor in the NHS.
NHS England Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens flatly contradicts the Prime Minister’s claims that the NHS had been adequately funded.
Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
The Government continues to deny it’s a crisis, but new figures from the health service information centre, NHS Digital, show that the number of elderly people waiting for more than 12 hours in A&E departments in England has more than doubled in the last two years.
Interview with Jessica Brittain-George, a junior A&E doctor who works in a North London hospital.
Interview with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.