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10-Year Health Plan to offer enhanced role for local government

By Lee Peart 02 July 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said the 10-Year Health Plan this week will offer local government an enhanced role in health.

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BREAKING NEWS: CSUs and ICPs face axe in 10-Year Health Plan

By Lee Peart 30 June 2025

CSUs and ICPs face the axe as the Government has pledged to abolish over 200 NHS organisations in the 10-Year Health Plan.

A&E

Twenty-hour A&E waits hit record level

By Lee Peart 30 June 2025

A record half-a-million patients spent 24 hours in A&E last year, new figures have revealed.

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10-Year Health Plan must 'shift dial to care in the community', report

By Lee Peart 30 June 2025

NHS Providers has called for the 10-Year Health Plan to ‘shift the dial towards delivering more care in the community’.

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NHS 'deaf to criticism' and stuck in 'fossilised' ways, says Mackey

By Lee Peart 30 June 2025

Sir Jim Mackey has said the NHS was too often ‘deaf’ to criticism and had ‘wasted lots of money’.

MENTAL HEALTH

DHSC boosts mental health services by recruiting thousands of extra staff

By Liz Wells 27 June 2025

More than 6,700 extra mental health workers have been recruited since July, new data shows.

NHS APP

NHS App overhaul will 'break down barriers and reduce inequalities'

By Liz Wells 26 June 2025

The NHS App will be transformed to give every patient information, choice, and control of their healthcare.

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Streeting vows to rebuild NHS in working class communities

By Lee Peart 25 June 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting will today pledge to rebuild the NHS in working class communities with a £2.2bn investment in the 10-Year Health Plan.

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Public has 'little or no confidence' in Government plans to improve NHS standards

By Liz Wells 24 June 2025

The public has little or no confidence in the Government’s plans to improve standards and meet targets anytime soon, new research reveals.

TAXPAYERS’ ALLIANCE

Pressure group urges health leaders to 'focus on sluggish productivity'

By Liz Wells 24 June 2025

TaxPayers’ Alliance is calling for health leaders to focus on ‘boosting sluggish productivity’ because there is ‘a risk’ that the NHS will be equal to a quarter of the whole UK economy by the end o...