Behind ambulance strikes, there’s an elephant in the emergency room
The A&E crisis has a hidden cause that cannot be fixed with paramedic pay.
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Do you want to live forever?
Anti-ageing drugs are bankrolled by some of the wealthiest people on Earth, including Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel. Are the…
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Wes Streeting’s comments on health unions were “blatantly untrue”, says deputy BMA chair
Emma Runswick told the New Statesman Podcast that the shadow health secretary was misleading voters in an attempt to “appear…
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Is Britain losing faith in its “national religion”?
As ambulance workers and nurses walk out on an ailing NHS, the public’s attitude towards the health service is changing.
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Rishi Sunak is fighting a losing battle against the nurses
If we don’t pay nurses enough, the NHS as we know it will begin to collapse. This should be ministers’…
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Nurses’ pay is lower in real terms than in 2010
As strikes approach, nurses’ pay is 2 per cent less than it was 12 years ago after accounting for inflation.
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The worst of the pandemic may be past, but the NHS is struggling to recover
The total number of patients waiting for some form of investigation or specialist treatment has topped 7 million.
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Why do I keep getting ill?
In less than three months I’d taken as many days off work due to illness as I had in the…
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