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Health service under pressure ‘like nothing I have ever experienced’ – NHS boss

Amanda Pritchard’s interview with The Times comes after NHS England data revealed that one in 10 people was left waiting hours for ambulances.

The Independent UK

PM warned 'emergency' NHS meeting won't ease pressure after 'years of inaction'

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

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak holds emergency talks in bid to ease winter NHS crisis

PM meets health experts including Professor Sir Chris Whitty

The Independent UK

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Ambulance strike in England and Wales will bring ‘huge risk of harm’

Patients with serious conditions and injuries will have to get themselves to A&E, NHS chiefs say

The Guardian - UK

Urgent surgery ‘may be postponed’ by nurses’ strikes, say NHS bosses

Trusts may also have to suspend chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and other key elements of healthcare

The Guardian - UK

'Women experiencing menopause have had to suffer in silence - it's time for change'

Eva Simpson on the news we should all welcome with cheers not sneers - the NHS issuing new guidelines for protecting and helping staff who are going through the menopause

Daily Mirror

Menopausal NHS workers will be able to work from home under new national guidance

Head of health service issues national guidance on menopause for first time ever

The Independent UK

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Menopausal women in NHS England workforce to be offered flexible working

New national guidance includes measures to support and retain staff and ‘break the stigma’ of menopause

The Guardian - UK

New national NHS guidance aims to help health staff through menopause

NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said taboos around the subject must be broken.

The Independent UK

Extra funding announced for NHS only half of what is needed, experts warn

Thinktanks say new £3.3bn in each of next two years won’t account for the £2.5bn inflation and other unexpected cost pressures

The Guardian - UK

NHS set targets in exchange for Treasury funding

NHS must publish ‘recovery plans’ for ambulance response and A&E waiting times

The Independent UK

Cancer: GPs urged to directly order scans for vague symptoms

Under the new guidance, GPs will be able to use their clinical judgment to order more scans for symptoms such as coughs, fatigue and dizziness.

The Independent UK

NHS England in worse place now than in early days of Covid, says boss

‘Complexity and uncertainty’ ahead as NHS struggles to deliver standard of care patients deserve, says Amanda Pritchard

The Guardian - UK

NHS situation harder now than during pandemic, health chief warns

‘We should be realistic with the NHS budget, savings can only ever be a margin of a margin’, says NHS chief Amanda Pritchard

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Things harder for the NHS now than during pandemic, chief executive warns

Amanda Pritchard told the King’s Fund annual conference in central London she did not think patients always got the care they deserved.

Manchester Evening News

NHS plans new winter 'war rooms' - what do they mean for Greater Manchester and what will we see that's new?

The Manchester Evening Newsunderstands that as the new policy has only just been announced, NHS bosses are now working to try and figure out how it will work in practice

The Independent UK

NHS sets up ‘winter war rooms’

The plans come ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter for the health service.

Daily Mirror

NHS will establish 24/7 'war rooms' ahead of 'toughest ever Winter'

Command centres will be able to make rapid decisions, including diverting ambulances to hospitals where there are free beds amid NHS England's unprecedented plans

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The Independent UK

Baby’s life saved by rapid testing service now rolled out across England by NHS

The NHS in England has announced the rollout of the ‘revolutionary’ scheme.

The Independent UK

Patients to see a GP within two weeks, Coffey to say

The new health secretary has set out plans to tackle pressures in the NHS.

Daily Mirror

Hero nurse who administered first Covid jab in UK walks behind Queen's coffin

Modern matron nurse May Parsons injected the first ever dose of the Pfizer vaccine into 90-year-old grandmother Maggie Keenan on December 8, 2020, at Coventry Hospital

The Independent UK

Health workers ‘honoured’ to play a role in Queen’s funeral

Nurse May Parsons, who delivered the first ever Covid-19 jab, will be part of the procession.

The Independent UK

Covid-19 booster jab programme gets under way

The NHS will contact people when it is their turn to book their vaccine.

The Independent UK

NHS 111 delays ‘leave patients waiting 20 times longer than target’

Six-minute-plus waits for operators as health service warns of coming winter pressure

Daily Record

NHS test could spot 50 cancer types before symptoms start in 'milestone' trial

The blood test can spot 50 types of cancer and save as many as 160,000 deaths a year.

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