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Government is ‘locked in battle’ with NHS boss over plans to improve the health service with a promised £20.5billion

Millions of patients face three-week wait for GP

One in five patients now waits at least two weeks to see a GP, finds report

GP surgery closures ‘will see 3 million patients lose out in the next year’

NHS GP crisis as bombshell poll suggest a third of doctors will QUIT within five years

Pensioners left in pain amid NHS cuts to hip and knee operations 

Government set to relax restrictions on non-EU doctors

Government ‘to relax immigration restrictions for non-EU medical staff’ to help fill 100,000 much-needed NHS jobs

Government to let in 3,000 foreign doctors as it relaxes immigration restrictions to ease NHS staff shortages

Cancer patient holds head in agony after being forced to wait 7 hours in A&E

Cancer patients wait more than a year for diagnosis

Cancer diagnosis scandal: 17,000 Britons die needlessly every year due to delays in spotting the disease, experts warn

Delays in cancer diagnosis results in more than 17,000 British deaths per year

Most doctors fear hospitals won’t cope this winter

Hospital staff fear for safety of NHS patients this winter, new poll reveals

Out of hours service assigned just two doctors to 1.4m patients

Just two GPs to care for 1.4MILLION people: Whole of Kent was left with ‘unsafe’ out-of-hours cover after clerical error, leaked document reveals

Google ‘poised to profit’ from NHS patient records

NHS relaxes English tests to tackle nursing shortage

A fifth of NHS hospitals are missing all their waiting list targets this year, figures show

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