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June 2026

  • Staff in a hospital ward

    More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest

  • Healthcare worker talking to a patient who is receiving an MRI Scan

    Record number of people waiting for NHS diagnostic tests in England

  • Midwife measuring patients foetal heart sounds on audio dopplex

    Factors leading to failures in NHS maternity care

  • An elderly woman walks along a corridor in a care home

    Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn

  • Family of girl left brain-damaged at birth accept £28m NHS payout

  • Hospitals in England ranking highly for empathy ‘have better patient outcomes’

  • double quotation markMidwives want to make childbirth miraculous – so what went so wrong in Nottingham?

    Zoe Williams

May 2026

  • Protesters in orange hats and vests hold signs reading 'Patients Need Doctors' and 'Doctors Need Jobs' with Big Ben behind them

    Resident doctors in England to stage four-day strike in June

  • A man looking at a screen showing scans of a patient

    NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms

  • A crowd of people stand near a large display of floral tributes

    NHS trust sacks staff who illegally accessed records of Nottingham attack victims

  • A nurse at a workstation in an NHS Hospital ward.

    The causes and dire effects of the NHS nurse shortage

  • Children in mental health crisis waiting up to three days in A&E for specialist bed in England

  • Racist abuse of NHS nurses rising amid ‘normalisation’ of extreme views, RCN warns

  • ‘So much of it resonates’: The Pitt strikes a chord with UK A&E medics

  • Weight-loss jabs could halve sickness absence and ease strain on NHS, study suggests

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer will not attempt to block Burnham from standing to be MP in Makerfield - as it happened

  • ‘A little boring after two weeks’: what awaits MV Hondius passengers quarantined for hantavirus?

  • Ann Barrett obituary

April 2026

  • Martha Mills smiling by a lake before her death in 2021.

    Martha’s rule may have saved more than 500 lives in England since 2024

  • Doctor using computer with virtual medical diagnostic interface showing AI healthcare technology.

    AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

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