All news on the topic: Wes Streeting

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Health Secretary spends £55,000 on virtual tours of 40 new hospitals not built
Steve Barclay is putting on roadshows across the country to give the public the chance to put on headsets and pretend they’re getting treated in the new facilities
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Over 120,000 people died while on NHS waiting list in 2022, shock figures show
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said record numbers of people are 'spending their final months in pain and agony, waiting for treatment that never arrives'
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Tory candidate attacks 'incessant' demands on GPs in deleted tweet
Dr Chandra Kanneganti, a GP who is standing for the Tories in Stoke-on-Trent Central, said family doctors are 'already feeling like they've become the 'Alexa' of primary care with the incessant requests' in an attack on Labour's plans
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Routine hospital care grinds to a halt as senior doctors begin 48-hour strike
The Government has refused to meet consultants since the British Medical Association balloted to strike so action will start from 7am today until the same time on Saturday
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Fears for patients over plan for 'care navigators' to answer GP phone calls
Health Secretary Steve Barclay claims the plan will 'end the 8am scramble' for appointments, but there are fears that it will be harder than ever to see a GP
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Doctors are being offered four times their salary to break NHS strikes
Bumper overtime rates worth thousands of pounds are being offered to doctors to tempt them to do extra shifts covering for colleagues taking part in industrial action for better pay
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PM hails 900 new NHS beds for winter - but 12,000 have been cut since 2010
The Prime Minister returned from holiday in California to visit Milton Keynes University Hospital and announce the extra capacity - but Labour pointed out how many have been lost
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Boost NHS instead of pouring taxpayers' cash into private sector, Tories told
Ministers unveiled plans to 'turbocharge' use of the private sector in the NHS as they admitted the record 7.5 million appointment waiting list in England is likely to increase further
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Thousands waiting 18 months for NHS treatment despite Rishi Sunak claim
The Prime Minister claimed to have "virtually eliminated" 18 month waits for NHS treatment - but 7,300 people are still waiting a year and a half or more for treatment
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Shortage of NHS staff is blamed as blood donor numbers miss target by 14,000
One long-time donor told how she had given up after three appointments were axed, despite her having the most in-demand blood type
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Labour legends honour Margaret McDonagh who was essential force behind 1997 win
Labour's first female general secretary Margaret McDonagh was hailed by Keir Starmer who said she 'changed the lives of so many' as mourners gathered for her funeral in London
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'Families are terrified they will pay the price for Tories crashing the economy'
Labour candidate Danny Beales writes for The Mirror about why people should vote for him in Thursday's Uxbridge & South Ruislip by-election, which was triggered by Boris Johnson's resignation
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Tories will break flagship vow to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, warns watchdog
The Whitehall spending watchdog said the Government's New Hospital Programme 'has experienced delays and is expected to deliver 32 of the intended target of 40 new hospitals by 2030'
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Tory minister gives virtual reality tour of 40 new hospitals as they don’t exist
Labour's Wes Streeting said patients need a government in the 'real world' as Steve Barclay resorted to hosting reality tours of hospitals that haven't been built
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'Reforms are needed to save our sacred NHS, we don't need misplaced worship'
Rachael Bletchly says it is right that we celebrate our remarkable health professionals, but adds she feels uneasy when the NHS is referred to as 'the jewel in Britain's crown'
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NHS plan will see nearly a million staff hired to plug doctors and nurses gap
The long-awaited NHS workforce plan is likely to come under scrutiny when it is published at midday on Friday, with the Tories having only committed funding for the first five years
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Do you support senior doctors going on strike - vote in our poll
Senior NHS doctors have downed tools today in a 48-hour strike following a bitter dispute over pay, as the British Medical Association reveals consultants have had a 35 percent real-terms loss of income since 2008/09
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Medics warn Rishi Sunak his NHS reforms will fail if he steps in over pay
The Government is expected to announce a doubling of medical school places for doctors, with a pledge to train tens of thousands of new nurses and midwives, more trainee GPs and dentists
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Slippery Rishi Sunak accused of misleading MPs over record NHS waiting lists
Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting urged Rishi Sunak to come clean after he wrongly claimed at Prime Minister's Questions that 'we are reducing waiting lists'
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Families who lost loved ones in Covid pandemic 'sickened' by Partygate video
Bereaved relatives called on the Metropolitan Police to prosecute those who boozed at the lockdown-busting held in December when socialising indoors was banned in London
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Hospital patients at 'serious risk' as heatwave hits during doctors strikes
NHS England issued a statement asking people to check on elderly friends and relatives and warning people with conditions such as asthma are at increased risk
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GMB thrown into chaos as crew forced to step in live on air after blunder
Good Morning Britain hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley were forced to stop an interview half-way through on Wednesday due to a technical blunder
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150,000 NHS appointments to be cancelled as junior doctors go on strike today
Patients face huge disruption as medics in the British Medical Association begin a 72-hour walkout in their bitter dispute with the Government over pay
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Wes Streeting describes struggle coming out, first love and getting cancer at 38
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting is releasing a new book at the end of June - Pride month - and in it he shares his experiences of coming out only after he started at Cambridge University
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Wes Streeting: 'I won't apologise for being ambitious - but I'm loyal'
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells the Mirror: 'If Rishi had had a background that was more like mine... he wouldn't have taken 20 quid off people in Universal Credit every week'