Ministers call for crackdown and family doctors will be told to boost the use of social prescribingMinisters have ordered a crackdown on overprescribing of medicines after a review found one in 10 drugs dispensed by GPs and pharmacists are pointless an…
Troubled maternity wards still jeopardising patients, watchdog warns
CQC inspection of nine struggling units suggests mothers and babies remain at risk from poor care and closed systemsBabies and mothers are at risk of injury and death because too many maternity units have not improved care despite a string of childbirt…
Use of 10p statins in organ donation ‘could save thousands of lives’
Exclusive: NHS launching large trial of approach that could boost number of transplants and their success rateThousands of lives could be saved globally by giving patients a 10p statin before transplants, doctors have said, as the NHS launches the worl…
Asylum seeker given £100,000 hospital bill after suffering stroke
Simba Mujakachi says government’s ‘hostile environment’ policies deterred him from taking medicationSimba Mujakachi, a personal trainer, was just 29 years old in June 2019 when he suffered a catastrophic stroke that left him comatose. When he awoke, he…
Private hospitals profit from NHS waiting lists as people without insurance pay out
As NHS waiting lists reach record levels, more and more patients are paying for ops out of their own pocketsBritons without health insurance on why they paid to go privateWhen Fabien needed to have a decayed tooth removed in May, his dentist told him t…
Boris Johnson is stealing Labour’s clothes? He’ll sell you a bridge too | Aditya Chakrabortty
Austerity for the poor, favours for the rich, and not a penny on frontline social care – this is truest blueNaughty Boris! You know the line and its intonation. There goes the prime minister, tearing into the tenets of Toryism with the same puppyish fe…
Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson’s winter coronavirus plan – cartoon
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The government’s winter Covid plan can prevent another UK lockdown – if we all work together | Devi Sridhar
Vaccinations, testing and measures such as wearing masks will all help slow the disease. But the pandemic is not over yetProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghAs the days become shorter and colder, and the cou…
PMQs: Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer ahead of rumoured cabinet reshuffle – UK politics live
Latest updates: prime minister faces Labour leader in Commons before a rumoured cabinet overhaul later todayBring in measures or risk 7,000 daily Covid hospitalisations, Sage warnsCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 12.0…
UK Covid live: Boris Johnson says he will not rule out ‘plan B’ of vaccine passports, masks and homeworking
Prime minister sets out more details of government winter plans after announcement of ‘plan A’ booster jabsMandatory masks could return this winter, says Sajid JavidCovid booster jab to be offered to those at most risk and over-50s in UKNadhim Zahawi: …