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One of the more sensible things that the Tories did during their otherwise terrible general election campaign last summer was not to make too many promises about tax. Though they never explicitly acknowledged that taxes might have to go up during this parliament, Theresa May and Philip Hammond...

A huge number of staff at Teesside’s biggest health trust say they have been assaulted at work. Results from the NHS staff survey show that one in six working at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust - which runs James Cook University Hospital - have been the victim of violence while at work. That’s...

Philip Hammond only agreed to the NHS’s £20bn budget boost on condition that the service’s outspoken chief executive backed the deal, sources close to the deal have disclosed. The chancellor made it clear in tense eleventh-hour negotiations that Simon Stevens had to publicly welcome the funding...

Theresa May’s promise of £400m extra in weekly NHS spending within five years has been overshadowed by scepticism among experts and her own backbenchers over her claim it can be financed through a windfall delivered by Brexit. Ahead of a major speech by the prime minister in which she will...

Taxpayers are to be asked to help fund a £20bn a year injection of extra cash into the National Health Service by 2023-24 that will pay for thousands more doctors and nurses, while cutting cancer deaths and improving mental health services, Theresa May will say today. The announcement, before...

People over 40 in England will be given advice on dementia as part of their free NHS health check. Guidance on how to reduce the risk of dementia will be given to patients at GP surgeries and through community health programmes. Public Health England (PHE) said up to one-third of dementia...

The government has announced it is relaxing immigration rules to allow more doctors and nurses from outside the EU into the UK. The Home Office said foreign medics would be excluded from the government's cap on skilled migration. The cap - introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary...

Virtual appointments with consultants from your own home or GP surgery are part of a plan to reduce "non-essential" visits to Welsh hospitals. Patients will be expected to be more careful about exercise and what they eat and drink under a Welsh Government plan to reduce pressure on the NHS. It...

An overwhelming majority of voters back a tax rise to fund the NHS, a Mirror poll has found. The ComRes survey reveals a staggering 82% would be willing to pay 1p more in National Insurance contributions if the money went directly to the health service. The findings will pile pressure on...

Theresa May’s plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHSwith a big cash boost will force the government to raise taxes, break its own budget rules or slash public spending elsewhere, according to the UK’s leading thinktank on the public finances. Amid growing Westminster...

Downing Street may resist demands from Cabinet ministers to ease the visa cap for highly skilled workers from aboard, despite signalling a softer approach for doctors filling posts in the NHS. The stance could trigger a battle with ministers like Business Secretary Greg Clark and Chancellor...

Labour will flesh out how it would dismantle Andrew Lansley’s structural NHS reforms to bring more health provision back in-house, in a wide-ranging consultation on NHS restructuring under a future Labour government. The shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said Labour had now rejected the...

Increasing numbers of people are being readmitted to hospital in England with preventable conditions such as pneumonia and pressure sores, according to Nuffield Trust research. Better care in hospital and at home afterwards could have made a difference, it said. Emergency readmissions, within...

NHS trusts in England have reported a combined financial deficit that was nearly twice the amount planned. There was a deficit of £960m in the last financial year compared with the £496m they had planned for, the regulator NHS Improvement said. Acute hospitals were largely responsible, mainly...

A disabled man wants to know why he spent three days ‘trapped’ in hospital because of a row over who would foot the bill for his transfer home. Roger Whitting, from Oswestry, was taken to an accident and emergency department across the Welsh border after fears he may have suffered a stroke...

From pacemakers and MRI scans to vaccines and antibiotics, here are some of the vital tools the health service uses each day. https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2018/may/29/advances-medical-science-nhs-save-lives

Last week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation published a report on funding for health and social care. One figure from the report was repeated across the headlines. For the NHS to stay afloat, it would require “£2,000 in tax from every household”. Shocking stuff! The...

Patients could have been put at risk of serious harm after NHS services in England were outsourced, a report says. Nearly 90 women were wrongly told they were no longer part of the cervical screening programme after Capita started running back-office services in 2015, the National Audit Office...

Three in four people do not think there are enough nurses to care safely for patients in the NHS, a survey suggests. The poll of 1,600 UK adults - carried out by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing - found 74% were concerned about staffing levels. Latest figures for England show one in...

Up-front charges for migrants to use the NHS are unfair on nurses and are tearing families apart, union leaders are warning. The Royal College of Nursing wants the £200 overseas surcharge scrapped for nurses coming to work in the NHS. It said the policy was "shameful" and is highlighting the...