A range of stories appear on Wednesday’s front pages – the Daily Telegraph opts to lead with a report that the prime minister is nearing a new trade partnership with the European Union which could “put a trade deal with the White House at risk”. Catching the eye on the front is a grey-haired Johnny...
Graeme Ogston BBC Scotland News Hugh Pym BBC Health Editor PA Media Nurses, midwives and healthcare staff across Scotland have been offered an 8% pay increase over two years. Health Secretary Neil Gray set out plans for a 4.25% increase in 2025-26 and a 3.75% rise next year. The offer – which the government said...
BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds Ministers, health staff and the public gathered in London last week for a summit to discuss the 10-year NHS plan in England. It was the final roadshow in a nationwide tour to help set out the strategy the government says will rescue the “broken” NHS, which has...
Family handout Louise Gleadell died aged 38 from cervical cancer after being wrongly told her tests were negative in both 2008 and 2012 The family of a mother who died from cervical cancer after twice being wrongly told she had negative results have been awarded undisclosed damages. The misreporting of Louise Gleadell’s cervical screening results...
BBC handout When her baby was three weeks old, Emma took an overdose Failing to properly diagnose and treat people with bipolar disorder is wasting billions of pounds a year in the UK, according to new data shared exclusively with the BBC. Experts say many of the estimated million people living with this condition are...
An NHS software provider has been fined £3m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over security failings that led to a ransomware attack on the NHS. The Advanced Computer Software Group was fined for a breach that put personal information of 79,404 people at risk, the UK’s data protection watchdog said. The firm provides IT...
Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News PA Media Ida Lock died a week after she suffered serious brain injuries around the time of her delivery An NHS trust criticised over the avoidable death of a newborn baby was paid £2m for providing good maternity care, the BBC can reveal. A senior coroner ruled on...