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Nurses and paramedics had been striking separately since last year, but thousands downed tools together in England on Monday, ahead of a week of disruption in Britain’s health service. Tens…

In the first project of its kind in Scotland, a hostel in Glasgow aims to stabilise alcoholics by giving them alcohol. It is 10:00 and Peter is getting his first…

England’s health secretary says he is worried and troubled by allegations of a “toxic culture” at one of the country’s biggest hospital trusts. In a letter, Steve Barclay said claims…

A junior doctor left a suicide note blaming her death entirely on the hospital where she worked. Vaish Kumar, 35, who was based at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QE), said…

Beth Matthews was 26 when she took her own life in a psychiatric unit run by The Priory – an inquest jury has found she was failed by the hospital.…

During the pandemic, nearly half a million people in the UK missed out on starting medication to help prevent heart attacks and strokes, a new study suggests. The British Heart…

Members of the union representing midwives in Scotland have rejected the latest NHS pay offer.  The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said 65% of members voted against it. The union…

Ambulance unions have reacted with anger after the health secretary said they had “taken a conscious choice to inflict harm on patients”. Steve Barclay said unions had refused to work…

Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are to strike for two days next month in what is set to be their biggest walkout in the NHS’s history. The Royal…

Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison makes the same impossible choice every month, when hundreds of children she can’t afford to treat show up at her publicly funded San Antonio mental health agency,…