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The Cabinet Office has launched a special unit to oversee the new procurement regime, which has come into force today. The Procurement Act 2023, introduced to reform how public procurement is carried out in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was given royal assent on 26 October 2023. It aims to make the UK’s public procurement regime…
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NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has announced she will stand down from her post at the end of the current financial year, as health service leaders stressed the need for a “new relationship” with the Department of Health and Social Care. Pritchard became NHS England chief in the summer of 2021 after serving as…
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The Liberal Democrats are gathering for the next few days in Brighton for their annual conference, which comes on the heels of winning a stunning 72 seats at the general election. Party leader Sir Ed Davey is calling for a £9.4bn increase in spending on the NHS at the budget in October – and we…
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A number of procedures have been cancelled or redirected to other NHS providers after a cyber attack affected major hospitals in the capital. King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’, including the Royal Brompton and the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and primary care services were hit by the “major IT incident” involving pathology partner Synnovis, letters sent…
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The dentist Rishi Sunak visited in Cornwall to promote his “recovery plan” is not accepting new NHS patients, it has emerged. The prime minister met staff and patients at Gentle Dental in Newquay on Thursday. He told broadcasters that “it hasn’t been easy enough for people to access NHS dentistry over the past couple of…
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Non-emergency caesarean sections have been delayed because of the ongoing NHS strike, with one woman saying she feels she has lost “all control” over the birth of her child as a result. Both junior doctors and consultants are taking joint action for the first time from Monday, with Christmas Day levels of cover expected until…
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The chairwoman of a powerful committee of MPs has recalled visiting a hospital where obese patients have to be treated on the ground floor because of fears they are too heavy to be safely moved up the building. It comes as the Liberal Democrats have called on the prime minister to hold an emergency Cobra…
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Dr Vishal Sharma, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) consultants committee, and Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chair of the junior doctors committee, were consulted for this media report. It comes after the union announced the first ever joint consultant and junior doctor strikes, set to take place later this month and in October due to a…
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Junior doctors across England will walk out for five days from July 13, in what is said to be the longest single period of industrial action in the history of the National Health Service (NHS). Last week, more than 47,000 junior doctors, all members of the British Medical Association (BMA), staged a 72-hour strike from…
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YouTube is profiting from quack health cure videos which promote pills containing the discharge of men infected with gonorrhoea. A MailOnline investigation found dozens of videos glorifying the use of medorrhinum, even on children. The videos, largely from channels based in India, have clocked up more than half a million views. YouTube ran adverts for various companies —…
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An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It’s also sometimes known as a termination of pregnancy. The pregnancy is ended either by taking medicines or having a surgical procedure. How to get an abortion Abortions can only be carried out under the care of an NHS hospital or a licensed clinic, and are…
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Simon Gregson has given away his classic car and motorbike to NHS heroes in a touching gesture. The actor – who plays Steve McDonald in the ITV soap – took to Twitter on Friday to share his plans with his followers. He wrote: “Dear NHS workers I have two classic projects (car and bike) if…
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The chief executive of Britain’s National Health Service has criticized Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop and her new Netflix series, warning it carries “considerable risks to health.” At an event in Oxford on Thursday, NHS chief Simon Stevens slammed Paltrow’s brand for giving prominence to “quacks, charlatans and cranks” in promoting untested treatments like vampire…
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The first ever human head transplants could be achieved within the next decade, claims a former NHS neurosurgeon who believes he knows how the feat of moving a person’s consciousness to another body could be made to work. Bruce Mathew, a former clinical lead for neurosurgery at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, was working on a science fiction novel with…
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Nigerian woman named Maria Adesanya may soon be deported from the United Kingdom. The 31-year-old woman is accused of bribing a nurse to pose as the father of her child in order to obtain a British passport for the baby. Adesanya paid the nurse named Adekunle Adeparusi, a 44-year-old British citizen, £3,000 to put his…
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