Labour’s NHS and social care plans will save money, says Angela Rayner | Labour
Angela Rayner said Labour’s NHS and social care plan would save money “without worrying about being cost neutral”. The party’s plans for funding the health service have been criticised by some think tanks for falling “far short” of what is needed to improve it. Trade unions and social care bosses say the sector is “broken” […]
Labour says it would let NHS in England buy more social care beds | NHS
Under Labour’s plans, NHS money would be used to buy thousands of care home beds in a bid to reduce overcrowding in England’s hospitals, long waiting times in emergency departments and patients stuck in ambulances. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the measures would tackle the huge human and financial “waste” caused by beds being […]
London NHS hospitals revert to paper records after cyber-attack | NHS
A cyber attack believed to have been carried out by a Russian group disrupted an NHS hospital’s IT network, forcing it to reinstate a long-abandoned paper record-keeping system in which blood test results are handed over by porters. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust (GSTT) has reverted to using paper, rather than computers, to receive patients’ […]
Baby boomers are much more worried about the NHS than their pensions, Mr Sunak | Torsten Bell
ohOne week down, five to go. Good luck, everyone. What have we learned? The Conservatives plan to throw around a bunch of different policies. Well, that’s OK. Talking about wild new ideas for the future avoids conversations about the past (stagnant wages and ubiquitous potholes mean the public has pretty much made up its mind […]
Hospitals struggle as social care crisis cancels out funding boost, NHS report says | Social care
Strikes and the social care crisis have left thousands more stranded in hospital beds and other patients struggling to access care, reversing increases in funding and NHS staff. It is reported that there are. A damning internal review into NHS efficiency last year found that despite a £20bn increase in funding since 2018 and a […]
Cass review must be used as ‘watershed moment’ for NHS gender services, says Streeting | Transgender
Wes Streeting hopes the Cass review will be a turning point in the provision of health services to young people who are questioning their gender identity, but also explains why some transgender people are “scared” He said he understood. The Shadow Health Secretary said there was a “total failure” in the current state of health […]
Health secretary claims government making progress on NHS waiting lists – UK politics live | Politics
Health Secretary: UK government makes progress on tackling NHS waiting lists Health Secretary Victoria Atkins insisted the government was working to clear waiting lists. She told listeners on Times Radio: We have now seen our waiting list decrease for four consecutive months. This is a significant achievement, especially against the backdrop of industrial action by […]
Britain’s NHS to re-evaluate all transgender treatments in wake of investigation revealing they’re based on pseudoscience
Britain’s National Health Service is re-evaluating all so-called “gender-affirming care” treatments following a damning new report which highlights that the gender reassignment system is built on weak and unreliable evidence. Dr Hilary Cass, a British doctor who previously served as Dean of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was appointed by NHS England […]
NHS Report Finds Child Trans ‘Medicine’ Built on ‘Shaky Foundations’
Evidence to help children change their gender, including ‘social transition’ and hormone blockers, is built on ‘shaky foundations’, a major review of the practices of leading UK pediatricians has found. . The long-awaited Cass report into how the tax-funded NHS treats children who believe they are transgender has been published, with hormones no longer available […]
Thousands of children unsure of gender identity ‘let down by NHS’, report finds | NHS
Thousands of vulnerable children who are questioning their gender identity are being let down by the NHS offering unproven treatments and the ‘toxicity’ of the transgender debate, breakthrough reveals This was revealed in the report. The UK’s only NHS Gender Identity Development Service has found that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which masculinize or feminize […]