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Norovirus grips NHS as beds continue to be taken up by medically fit people

An average of 41% of patients ready to leave hospital last week were discharged each day, according to data from NHS England.

The Independent UK

A&E will be swamped by half of England’s population every year unless NHS reformed, warns top doctor

NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said the NHS ‘must go for broke’ to move care into communities if it wants to avoid overcrowded A&Es in the next decade

The Independent UK

Major London hospitals could be forced to close after rebuilds delayed, ministers warned

MPs and senior NHS officials fear major London hospitals could ‘go down’ as Wes Streeting delays rebuilding programme

Evening Standard

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Rising numbers of people with mental health issues receiving employment advice

NHS talking therapies are designed to help people with conditions such as anxiety and depression and can link patients with employment advisers.

Evening Standard

Labour sparks fury as rebuild of crumbling hospitals in London delayed by up to decade

The Health Secretary said the new timetable was ‘honest, funded and can actually be delivered’

Evening Standard

New hospitals programme will take decade longer than Tories planned – Streeting

The Health Secretary said the new timetable was ‘honest, funded and can actually be delivered’.

The Independent UK

Work on some of Boris Johnson’s ‘40 new hospitals’ will not start until 2039

Health secretary calls Tory plan ‘a work of fiction’ as Lib Dems accuse Labour of a ‘double betrayal’ of the public

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Johnson plan to build 40 new hospitals ‘unachievable’, Streeting told

Health secretary to set out revised plans in Commons after warning from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on corridor care: the normalisation of crisis is shocking

Editorial: A&E nurses should not be delivering care in hallways. The result is increased suffering

The Guardian - UK

Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for years

Exclusive: Labour to announce delay to many of 40 planned projects as costs spiral to estimated £30bn

The Guardian - UK

This could be the toughest winter in NHS history. Here’s a simple way we can all help

Patients are dying on hospital trolleys, and nurses are treating them in corridors. The very least we can do is get vaccinated, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

‘I was stuck for 12 hours with no water': Inside crisis in London A&Es as patients face ‘horrendous’ waits

A severe flu wave has left hospitals overwhelmed and staff at breaking point. The Standard speaks to patients feeling the impact

Evening Standard

NHS patients dying in corridors and going undiscovered for hours, damning report finds

‘Harrowing’ report tells of patients sitting for days in chairs due to a lack of beds, patients piling up in corridors and delays to treatment

Evening Standard

Patients dying near toilets and treated in car parks as ‘corridor care’ crisis laid bare

Nurses are at breaking point around the UK as a survey shows nearly seven in 10 have to provide care in overcrowded hospital corridors on a daily basis

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The Guardian - UK

Hospital patients dying undiscovered in corridors, report on NHS reveals

Royal College of Nursing says people ‘routinely coming to harm’ with vital equipment not available and staff too busy

The Independent UK

NHS patients ‘dying in corridors and going undiscovered for hours’, report says

The Royal College of Nursing study contains harrowing accounts of patients being treated in inappropriate places and sitting in soiled clothes.

The Independent UK

The NHS must treat its ‘corridor care’ crisis as a wake-up call

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The results of a nurses’ survey show that patients are routinely receiving care in hospital corridors and waiting areas. The situation is appalling – but health service managers must now examine how their problems are caused not so much by underfunding as by disorganisation

The Independent UK

53,000 NHS staff off sick as Wes Streeting says he cannot rule out patients in corridors next winter

Labour health secretary criticised the ‘unacceptable’ care patients have received as soaring flu cases led hospitals across England to declare critical incidents

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Evening Standard

Streeting: ‘I can’t promise there won’t be patients treated in corridors next year’

The Health Secretary said he will ‘never accept’ people being treated in ‘undignified’ conditions but that it would ‘take time’ to fix the NHS.

The Independent UK

Who could be in the running to replace Rachel Reeves as chancellor?

News analysis: Keir Starmer gave his beleaguered chancellor the vote of confidence on Monday morning, but if he decided on a change in the Treasury who could replace her?

The Independent UK

Business chiefs’ pessimism adds to pressure on Rachel Reeves

The figures came in a quarterly survey carried out in December.

Evening Standard

Streeting says nurses are ‘backbone of our NHS’ after worker stabbed in hospital

Police were called to the Royal Oldham Hospital on Saturday evening.

The Guardian - UK

A&E ‘corridor care’ now normal at NHS hospitals in England, senior doctor says

Consultant’s comments come as north London hospital posts specific ad for corridor care nurses

The Guardian - UK

Dementia care reform won’t wait

One in three people born today will develop the disease, meaning pressures will become ever more acute

Evening Standard

PM under ‘immense’ pressure over grooming gangs inquiry, says Farage

The Reform UK leader repeated his demands for a national inquiry at his party’s north-west regional conference on Saturday.

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