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COVID-19 INQUIRY

Covid-19 Inquiry: Doctor describes 'scenes from hell'

By Lee Peart 27 September 2024

Professor Kevin Fong has described ‘scenes from hell’ in intensive care units during the Covid pandemic.

PAY NEGOTIATIONS

NHS Scotland consultants offered 10.5% pay rise

By Liz Wells 26 September 2024

Consultants across Scotland have been offered a 10.5% uplift to basic pay, back dated to 1 April 2024, as well as a £5.7m investment in other contractual elements.

ADASS

Just one-third of council directors able to invest in preventative services

By Lee Peart 26 September 2024

Just one-third of directors of adult social care directors are able to invest in preventative services in the year ahead, it has been revealed.

NHS CONFEDERATION

Nine in ten ICS leaders lack budgets to meet community care ambitions

By Lee Peart 26 September 2024

Nearly nine in ten (87%) ICS leaders lack the budgets to meet their ambitions to provide more care closer to home, research has found.

INTEGRATED CARE

Scotland's Winter Preparedness Plan unveiled

By Liz Wells 26 September 2024

The Scottish Government and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) joint Winter Preparedness Plan will see a record number of NHS 24 call handlers support the public this winter as servic...

COVID

Covid Inquiry chair rejects UK Health Security Agency anonymity plea

By Lee Peart 26 September 2024

Covid-19 Inquiry chair Baroness Hallett has rejected a plea from the UK Health Security Agency for the anonymity of two of its employees during hearings.

PREVENTION

Asda partnership expands access to heart health checks

By Liz Wells 26 September 2024

Asda is to stock a new home heart test that can provide the NHS with test results for cardiovascular disease within minutes.

MARIA KANE

Government minister tours maternity and neonatal services unit

By Lee Peart 26 September 2024

Government minister, Baroness Merron, has met with staff and service users during a tour of maternity and neonatal services at Bristol’s Southmead Hospital.

HELEN MORGAN

Lib Dems calls for fiscal rule changes to fund new hospitals

By Lee Peart 26 September 2024

The Liberal Democrats have written to the health secretary to call on the Government to use any changes to the fiscal rules in the Autumn Budget to be used to complete the New Hospital Programme.

NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON