NHS
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NHS 'pays £7.5m a year for 20 most expensive agency doctors'Watchdog says health service could save £300m a year if locums charged within set price cap, after data found some are paid £375,000 a year
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Martin Rowson on Jeremy Hunt and the NHS – cartoonJeremy Hunt said that performance in some parts of the NHS is “completely unacceptable”, adding there is “no excuse” for some of the problems being seen in the health service
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A&E in January – how was it for you?An unprecedented number of patients spent longer than four hours in waiting rooms before being seen during January. Share your experiences with us
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How long do you get with your GP? Doctors' consultation times – in dataThis week a leading GP said the average consultation times in the UK were too short for some patients. So how do they compare with those elsewhere in the world?
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Patients at hospital 'admitted to virtual ward to avoid missing A&E target'Patients at Alexandra hospital were kept in A&E but recorded as admitted to non-existent Emergency Department Unit, whistleblower has claimed
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The Guardian view on social care: all councils need more cashEditorial: Jeremy Corbyn had the evidence of a sweetheart deal for the Tory heartland of Surrey. Special treatment isn’t fair
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Fears of 'two-tier NHS' as GPs allow fee-paying patients to jump the queueMPs claim Dorset Private GP service, at up to £145 per appointment, will mean NHS patients without money will wait even longer for care
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Brexit, inequality and Ken Clarke’s legacyLetters: Ken Clarke’s legacy won’t be his last stand on Europe. It will be the final privatisation of the NHS which he set in train with his concoction of the internal market
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Number of patients stuck in hospital 'far higher than NHS data shows'Nuffield Trust suggests official counting system is not detecting many ‘delayed transfers of care’ cases
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Health tourism claims are a distraction from NHS’s real problemsLetters: The long list of government ‘responses’ to the healthcare crisis includes anything but the progressive system of taxation that is needed
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UK tax burden will soar to highest level for 30 years, warns IFSSlower growth after Brexit vote and ageing population will hit budget over next decade, says leading thinktank
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When my mum became a ‘bed blocker’, I saw the crisis in care for older peopleAnyone with an elderly relative in need of medicalised social care should prepare to deal with a shockingly underfunded and uncompassionate system
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The Guardian view on the NHS: more cash, less dog-whistling neededEditorial: In launching an ugly offensive on overseas patients, the British government is trying to deflect attention from a funding crisis of its own making
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Staff shortages are threatening the NHSLetters: Without staff the NHS cannot function effectively and the march towards privatisation will become unstoppable
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NHS nurse killed himself after losing his job, inquest toldAmin Abdullah, 41, killed himself last year after being sacked from Charing Cross hospital in London
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Senior MPs accused of damaging UK with divisive rhetoricBrexit committee chair says talk of crackdowns on foreign students and doctors by Rudd and Hunt is disastrous
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One in six A&E departments at risk of closure or downgradeAs many as 33 casualty departments across the UK could be lost by 2021 in an attempt to save £22bn from the NHS’s budget
Two-thirds of young hospital doctors under serious stress, survey reveals