Rishi Sunak has been urged to recall Parliament over an escalating crisis in the NHS. Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper hit out at the Prime Minister and Health Secretary Steve Barclay for being “nowhere to be seen”. She described
The NHS is on the verge of collapse as a result of rocketing demand, a consultant has claimed, after a man revealed he had been forced to wait nine hours for an ambulance. Peter Neville, a gastroenterologist who works in Wales, set
The number of NHS trusts across the country declaring a critical incident has now reached 13, as the health service struggles to cope with the high levels of COVID-19, flu and scarlet fever currently circulating. There are now fears that the NHS
New data shows that the new “highly infectious” Covid strain is responsible for one in 25 cases of the virus in the UK. The new variant has been labelled XBB.1.5 and has seen hospitalisations quickly rise in the United States. The US has
Nicola Sturgeon is coming under pressure to recall MSPs back to Holyrood early from their Christmas recess to launch an “emergency response” to the “unprecedented crisis” in the NHS. Scottish ministers are not due back at their desks until next Tuesday –
Overloaded hospitals are on the brink of collapse, with waits of more than 10 hours commomplace, and elderly patients lying in their own urine, an A&E doctor has warned in a blistering assessment of the chaos facing the NHS. The harrowing account,
Dr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, has said the NHS is in a worse state now than it was at the peak of the Covid pandemic. He said medical staff are “pressurised like never before” and called on
Following a tumultuous year for the Conservatives, Rishi Sunak will be forced to reassure voters that another Tory Government is the best option for the country. A new poll which was shared with the i shows that Tory voters believe the party
Paramedics and NHS staff hold a picket line in Coventry Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said that December’s A&E and ambulance waiting times would likely be “the worst ever”. He added: “We think that somewhere between
The NHS is facing its worst winter on record for A&E waiting times, health leaders have warned. The warning comes as hospitals struggle to cope with rocketing demand driven by a surge in winter viruses such as flu. The Royal College of