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‘Game-changer’ pill to help people stop smoking to be rolled out on NHS

Varenicline works by tackling nicotine cravings and also helps with withdrawal symptoms, such as irritability and trouble sleeping.

The Independent UK

Bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill ‘is safest choice’, argues MP

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater insists her new law offers ‘strictest safeguards’ in world as it is set to be published

The Independent UK

New law offers ‘safest choice’ to terminally ill who wish to die, says MP

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has been published.

Evening Standard

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Pay for NHS chiefs to be linked to performance with ‘no more rewards for failure’, Wes Streeting says – as it happened

Health secretary to confirm announcement in speech later this week

The Guardian - UK

Nurses quitting profession early puts health reforms in England at risk, says union

Numbers leaving within 10 years of registering rose by 43% between 2021 to 2024, finds Royal College of Nursing

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying Bill to offer ‘strictest protections’ in world, says Leadbeater

The Labour MP who tabled the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill said if MPs passed the new legislation it ‘must be a good law’.

The Independent UK

NHS crisis ‘a million times worse’ than under Tony Blair, former health secretary warns

Alan Milburn said the NHS needs to be weaned off what he said was a ‘more, more, more’ culture

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NHS in ‘last-chance saloon’, says former health secretary Alan Milburn

Milburn set to take senior health department role and says crisis is ‘million times worse’ than when he was in office

The Guardian - UK

NHS must be weaned off ‘more, more, more’ culture, warns Alan Milburn

The former health secretary has been appointed to a senior Department of Health and Social Care position by Wes Streeting.

The Independent UK

NHS is drinking in ‘last chance saloon’, says Labour health advisor

‘The NHS is in the worst state I’ve ever seen’ Alan Milburn said

The Independent UK

Poll suggests 41% of GP practices are limiting appointments

The survey comes after family doctors voted in August for collective action, which they warned could last for months.

The Independent UK

What have senior Labour Party figures said previously about Donald Trump?

LEADERS across the UK political spectrum have congratulated Donald Trump as he appears set to win the US presidential election ...

The National (Scotland)

‘Sociopath’ and ‘sad little man’: What UK politicians have said about Donald Trump

London mayor Sadiq Khan refused to congratulate Donald Trump

The Independent UK

What have key Labour Party figures said about Donald Trump? Past remarks revealed

Sir Keir Starmer and other leading Labour MPs have not always been complimentary about the US president-elect, with one calling him ‘a tyrant in a toupee’

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Donald Trump takes early lead against Kamala Harris in predicted US election results

Donald Trump appeared to take an early lead over his presidential rival Kamala Harris as polls closed across US states ...

Evening Standard

Trump takes early lead in predicted election results as polls close across US

Crucial battleground states including Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are yet to be called and could tip the balance.

The Independent UK

Sectioned patients to avoid being locked in cells in overhaul of mental health system

Police cells and prison cells will no longer be used for people experiencing a mental health crisis, under a bill introduced to parliament on Wednesday

International Business Times

UK Considers Ambitious Anti-Tobacco Law But It Has One Big Exception

The government stated that the bill "breaks the cycle of addiction and paves the way for a smoke-free UK."

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The Independent UK

Darren Jones suggests Tory shadow minister has ‘amnesia’

Mr Jones’s comments were aimed at shadow Treasury minister Alex Burghart, who had described the Budget as being ‘as bad as bad can be’.

The Guardian - UK

Labour promised GPs more money. Why hit them with higher national insurance?

Letters: Primary care will suffer from exposing doctors to the rise in national insurance – they should be exempt, writes Phil Taylor

Evening Standard

Fee rise will not fix ‘financial pressures’ facing universities due to NI hike

Changes announced in the Budget around employers’ national insurance contributions will cost the sector around £372m, it has been suggested.

The Independent UK

Streeting vows Budget will put NHS staff ‘on front line, not the picket line’

The Health Secretary also vowed Labour would rebuild hospitals.

The Independent UK

UK introduces a tough anti-tobacco bill, but smokers can puff away in pub gardens for now

Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament

Evening Standard

Labour ‘working hard’ to win over Trump in case he defeats Harris

Health Secretary Wes Streeting was asked about a 2017 post on social media in which he called Donald Trump an ‘odious, sad, little man’.

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting defends tuition fee increase as ‘proportionate and reasonable’

Health Secretary Mr Streeting, a former president of the National Union of Students, said he would still go to university even with the fee rise.

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