NHS News

Medical colleges criticise charging migrants upfront for NHS care

NHS will fund ‘drunk tanks’ over the festive period to relieve pressure on emergency services and stop drunken revellers from clogging up A&E

NHS England puts up £300,000 for Christmas ‘drunk tanks’

NHS sets up £300,000 city centre ‘drunk tank’ fund to take pressure off A&E over Christmas

17,000 wait months for smear test results

Patients pay £1bn to jump NHS queues

NHS waiting lists for lung and bowel treatments double since Conservative-led government came to power, analysis shows

Demand for NHS staff rises as EU applicants ‘drop off a cliff’

UK patients may Skype doctors in INDIA in a bid to slash GP waiting times

Ministers and NHS England chief at loggerheads over targets

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

Asylum seekers ‘too afraid’ to seek NHS care, report says

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