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INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Public support for resident doctors falls as trusts brace themselves for strikes

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

Public support for the imminent resident doctors' strikes is declining, new research reveals.

SOCIAL CARE

Social care and NHS under threat from overseas worker ban, says care boss

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

A Welsh care home boss has invited First Minister Eluned Morgan to come and see the threat to social care services and the NHS caused by the ban on overseas care workers.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

BREAKING NEWS: Resident doctors strike to go ahead as Streeting fails to 'make significant offer'

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Resident doctors in England have confirmed they will be going ahead with industrial action this week, after determining health secretary Wes Streeting’s letter to the BMA's Resident Doctors Committ...

PEOPLE MOVES

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals selects new chair

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Mahmud Nawaz as its new chair.

PRINCESS ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

App helps families stay connected to premature babies

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

A new video messaging app has launched at King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) to keep families in touch with their babies on neonatal units.

PREVENTION

Study reveals most cost-effective obesity surgery

By Lee Peart 22 July 2025

Gastric Bypass has been found to be the most clinically and cost effective form of surgery for people with severe obesity.

NHS professionals to be trained on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

NHS healthcare professionals in England are to receive new training to be better able to support patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and ME.

ICB

MPs call for end to long waits for autism and ADHD assessments

By Lee Peart 22 July 2025

The Health and Social Care Committee has called for Government action to end long waits for autism and ADHD assessments for children and young people.

WHITEHALL

'Significantly more' infected blood victims to receive compensation

By Lee Peart 22 July 2025

‘Significantly more people’ are set to receive compensation following changes to the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.

NHS ENGLAND

BMA warns NHS England that its strike plans risk patient safety

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

The BMA is warning NHS England that its change in approach to planning for this week’s resident doctors strikes will ‘risk patient safety’ for those seeking routine and emergency treatment.