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The RCM opened its annual conference today with a call for greater equity and equality for those working in – and supported by – maternity services.
The number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus on one day has jumped by nearly a quarter in England.
Two-fifths of patients waiting for mental health treatment are being forced to contact emergency or crisis services.
NHS Providers has warned that worrying gaps in health spending must urgently be addressed in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.
Earlier detection of cancer offers arguably the single biggest opportunity to save lives but there are many challenges preventing this from happening.
NHS Providers says the sustained physical, psychological and emotional pressure on health staff is threatening to push them beyond their limits.
RCS has called for hospital beds to be ring-fenced for planned operations, to avoid a ‘tsunami of cancellations’ during the second wave of coronavirus.
Applications have opened to deliver four ‘green social prescribing’ pilots in communities hardest hit by coronavirus.
Labour is calling for urgent action to ensure the NHS is vitally equipped for the winter to deal with a second wave of coronavirus.
An investigation is under way after nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England because of a ‘technical issue’.
Some of Britain’s poorest communities are facing a double whammy of health and financial hardship as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Three in four dentists are unsure whether they will be able to provide a full service this year or don’t know when they will be able to do so.
Over 65 million messages have been sent on the Microsoft Teams platform since the week it was rolled out across the NHS by NHS Digital.
Overstretched health visitors have been forced to care for up to 2,400 families with newborns at a time because of the pandemic.
The RCGP has written to Matt Hancock seeking assurances that general practice will have enough doses of this winter’s flu vaccine to cope with demand.
People who have been hospitalised with coronavirus will have access to a new national peer support network to help their recovery.
The Prime Minister has confirmed that 40 hospitals will be built by 2030 as part of a package worth £3.7 billion.
One in eight people have now received a coronavirus test at least once since the launch of NHS Test and Trace on 28 May.
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