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The government and the NHS have announced an ambition to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers to help get jabs into arms.
The number of patients stuck in hospital in England despite being medically fit to leave nearly doubled between February and November this year.
The NHS vaccination programme will offer every adult the chance to book a coronavirus booster vaccine by the end of the year.
New measures have been announced to help protect the social care sector, including £300 million to help recruit and reward the workforce.
The majority of children and young people who attended hospital during the second wave of the pandemic were happy with the care they received.
Latest data shows that record numbers of students accepted places to study nursing and midwifery in England for the second year running.
MPs are urging for action to prevent mental health services slipping backwards as a result of additional demand created by the pandemic.
NHS leaders have called on the government to publicly recognise the scale of the NHS' current workforce problems as the first step to solving them.
Patients are more likely to discuss highly stigmatising health conditions with an Artificial Intelligence chatbot compared to a GP.
The NHS is launching a drive to recruit 10,000 vaccination workers on the ‘jabiversary’ of the first Pfizer jab.
Hospitals have cancelled at least 13,000 operations over the last two months as they struggle to cope with record demand for NHS care.
The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act will commence to better protect patients in mental health settings over the inappropriate use of force.
The government's ten year Drug Strategy aims to tackle drugs and prevent crime, backed by an increase in funding for drug treatment.
Record levels of more than £260 million will be invested in training healthcare professionals in Wales.
A report has shown that visits to the UK’s woodlands boosts mental health and is estimated to save £185 million in treatment costs annually.
The UK Health Security Agency is urging all those eligible to take up their flu vaccine by 10 December to ensure protection in time for Christmas.
People’s experiences of mental health care continue to be poor, with people’s experience of some areas of care at their lowest point in eight years.
New modelling has forecast that there could be 230,000 new referrals for PTSD across England as a direct or indirect result of the pandemic.
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