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Almost a quarter of ambulance staff now plan to quit jobs according to the shock national NHS Staff Survey - while a separate poll for Channel 4’s Dispatches found 53% of ambulance workers said they had witnessed a death caused by NHS delays

NHS strikes could be nearing the end as government hopes discussions will bring about wage agreement to avert more walkouts by nurses, midwives and paramedics

The Prime Minister will travel to Paris on Friday, but has failed to persuade French President Emmanuel Macron to take back asylum seekers who cross the Channel

One scandal-hit service ferried 27 critical condition patients by cab. Each person was on a category 1 call, meaning they needed life-saving intervention or resuscitation

Henry Dimbleby, who authored the National Food Strategy for Boris Johnson, said the game-changing decision by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to offer free school meals to all primary pupils in the capital would prove the benefit of the scheme

One in 10 GP partners have been forced to reduce time with patients and nearly a quarter have stopped recruiting surgery staff due to the cost-of-living crisis.

Just 33,570 people applied to a UK nurse undergraduate course by the January deadline, down from 41,220 in 2022 and 46,040 in 2021

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting slammed Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay for failing to negotiate with health unions and put an end to strikes - as ambulance workers and nurses both walked out today at the same time

Following an experience with his wife in A&E, Sunday People's political editor Nigel Nelson has called for changes to the NHS - because 'a model designed in 1948 doesn’t work for 2023'

EXCLUSIVE: Medical students are needed to help bolster an already understaffed NHS workforce, but financial difficulties and the prospect burnout from exhausting shifts has left many feeling worried about what the future holds

The Prime Minister was taking questions from health workers and members of the public on the NHS as he was told the issue of nurses' pay was the 'elephant in the room'

Rishi Sunak is expected to make the announcement on Monday despite concerns from the Labour Party, which says patients will be "left waiting longer than is safe".

The shadow Health boss wants to buy excess capacity in the private sector to carry out 233,000 procedures a year to cut NHS waiting lists if Keir Starmer becomes PM

Labour’s Wes Streeting said it was 'staggering' the taxpayers’ money had been 'wasted on useless' as he warned the Conservatives can 'never again claim to be the careful stewards of the public finances'

The former Labour Prime Minister made the remarks after Rishi Sunak proposed charging patients for missed NHS appointments in the summer and ex-Health Secretary Sajid Javid also raised the prospect of charges

Research shows one in 10 health visitors are juggling caseloads of more than 1,000 kids – four times the recommended ratio – and nearly a third have more than 750 children on their books

Labour's leader defended his tough stance on NHS reforms, vowing to take on 'bureaucratic nonsense' and 'mind-boggling inefficiencies' in the health service

Everyone in England would eventually be banned from buying cigarettes under the plan, which was presented to Tory ministers last year - and will be looked at by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister is holding rare weekend talks with health leaders - after senior medics said the health service was on a knife edge with many A&E units struggling to keep up with demand and trusts and ambulance services declaring critical incidents

Tories have been accused of repeatedly ignoring the problems that have left the NHS at breaking point after 13 years of shameful underfunding as they blamed Covid, Strep A and flu instead

Medics warned Tory cuts have left the NHS on its knees, amid claims up to 500 people a week die because of delays in emergency care