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The number of vaccinations given to pre-school children is declining, with the government’s 2013 reorganisation of the NHS identified as a major factor, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. The National Audit Office found limited evidence of any major impact from so called “anti-vaxxers”...

Nearly 30,000 people across the country with Type 1 diabetes have received life-changing diabetes monitors through the NHS Long Term Plan. The innovative device, which is the size of a £2 coin and worn on the arm, means people with Type 1 do not have to carry out multiple painful finger-prick...

A charity has launched a legal challenge against the policy of charging vulnerable migrant women £7,000 or more to access NHS maternity care. Maternity care falls under “immediately necessary service” in the UK, which means it must never be refused or delayed regardless of a patient’s...

I have read up on the criteria for getting a CGM on NHS and I think I could qualify through the number of bs tests I am taking (8-10 per day) due to a lot of driving in my work. Having read up on the relatively poor accuracy of the Libre, Dexcom G6 seems like a much better choice. I have done...

An eye doctor has been stranded overseas and unable to resume his career in the NHS after the Home Office banned him from entering Britain over a visa mix-up. The decision by the Home Office’s immigration department has been branded “inhumane” and prompted warnings it will worsen the NHS’s...

Boris Johnson’s most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, is facing conflict of interest accusations over a consultancy role he undertook for a government-endorsed healthcare startup that is in position to receive a share of a new £250m flagship public fund. Cummings advised Babylon Health, a...

Boris Johnson’s mother has withdrawn her name from a public letter expressing concerns about the poor provision of Parkinson’s treatment on the NHS following an intervention from Downing Street. Charlotte Johnson Wahl, who was diagnosed with the degenerative illness at 40, had put her name to a...

South African pharma company Aspen is set to pay the NHS £8m ($9.9m) in the next few weeks, after an investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found it had unlawfully paid two other companies to stay out of the market for fludrocortisone acetate tablets. Aspen paid...

A cavernous £11m warehouse stocked with £5m of medical products and food has been set up on a business park in south Wales in readiness for a no-deal Brexit. The Labour-led Welsh government said the money it had spent buying the warehouse could have bought seven MRI scanners for the NHS in...

In a report published by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), 45% of doctors said they had thought about leaving the profession due to concerns about their wellbeing. The findings, based on a health and wellbeing survey of 275 healthcare professionals, also found that around a third (35%) of...

An extra £3bn to rebuild crumbling hospitals announced by Matt Hancock on the first of the Tory party conference is welcome, but not nearly enough given the state of NHS infrastructure, experts have said. Prime minister Boris Johnson declared that 40 new hospitals would be built, but almost all...

Ministers will not know whether there are enough medicines, medical supplies or freight capacity to support the NHS if the UK leaves the EU without a deal next month, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. With just five weeks to Britain’s scheduled withdrawal on 31 October, the National...

GPs are wrongly denying care to homeless people, travellers and recent arrivals into the UK by telling them to produce photographic identification or proof of address before they can register or get urgent treatment. Sex workers and drug users are also being prevented from accessing GP...

Labour has promised to scrap prescription charges in England if it wins power. The move would bring England into line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where they are free. Currently, prescriptions cost £9 per item in England, unless patients opt into the NHS pre-payment discount...

Everyone suspects the Tories have a long-term plan to abolish the NHS. A new documentary film will lay bare the plot dating back decades, and within sight of success. Under The Knife charts the secret Conservative strategy to open up the health service to private sector companies as a prelude...

A 39-year-old woman with advanced stage breast cancer has died after she was denied chemotherapy by Home Office officials for six weeks. Kelemua Mulat, an asylum seeker from Ethiopia, was told by the Home Office she wouldn't be able to receive chemotherapy on the NHS under rules charging...

Poor diabetes control costs the NHS in England £3bn a year in potentially avoidable hospital treatment, according to researchers from Salford. This was the level of avoidable cost they identified during the operational year 2017-18, after comparing the costs of hospital care for 58 million...

The parent of a sick child claimed the NHS was being destroyed as he challenged Boris Johnson during a hospital visit. The prime minister was confronted by the angry parent, who claimed there were not enough doctors and nurses. In a conversation lasting around two minutes, the man said the...

In both the NHS Five Year Forward View and Long Term Plan, self-care rightly gets a piece of the pie. For instance, the former states that ‘many (but not all) people wish to be more informed and involved with their own care, challenging the traditional divide between patients and...

Professor Harold Ellis qualified as a doctor in the same month the NHS was was created in July 1948. “I’d been a student at the Radcliffe [Hospital in Oxford] for three years, went away for a fortnight’s holiday, came back and it was now the National Health Service. Honestly, we didn’t really...