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National Hell Service: NHS ambulance crews are missing key response time targets for heart attack and stroke patients in all but ONE area of England

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Windsor and Maidenhead was the only one of 194 areas to meet the target for so-called 'Category 2' calls last year, with an average time of just over 16 minutes.

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My brave daughter, 6, beat cancer but now it’s returned and NHS won’t fund her treatment – I’m crushed

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THE family of a six-year-old girl who beat cancer need help to pay for a last-ditch treatment after it returned.

My brave daughter, 6, beat cancer but now it’s returned and NHS won’t fund her treatment – I’m crushed

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THE family of a six-year-old girl who beat cancer need help to pay for a last-ditch treatment after it returned.

My brave daughter, 6, beat cancer but now it’s returned and NHS won’t fund her treatment – I’m crushed

THE family of a six-year-old girl who beat cancer need help to pay for a last-ditch treatment after it returned.

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Former Concord, N.H., firefighter sues city, claiming sexual harassment

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“While Concord went through the motions of looking into Mr. Golomb’s complaints of both harassment and retaliation, it never did anything to stop the retaliation against him,” the lawsuit alleges.

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Doctor gets text from 'stranger' minutes before shift ends saying his 24 years with NHS are over

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Dr John Cosgrove, a doctor with the NHS for 24 years, has hit out at "successive governments' failure to address GP staffing crisis" and believes his career with the service is over

Take-at-home brain cancer treatment for children will soon be available on NHS

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Children with brain tumours will soon have access to drugs they can take at home, the NHS has announced.

NHS has 'very serious criminal and ethical issues' to answer over reports that children were 'experimented on' using infected blood products, MPs are told

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Cabinet Office minister John Glen said reports on medical trials using infected blood products on children demonstrate the 'unimaginable suffering of all those impacted by this dreadful scandal'.

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Woman 'condemned to death' after doctors failed to spot cancer in time demands meeting with NHS Trust

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Anne Shaw, 68, has called Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust "callous" for making it difficult to meet with her so they can discuss the mistakes in her care that have left her with terminal cancer

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New NHS weight loss scheme has people shedding impressive eight pounds in three months

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The NHS Digital Weight Management Programme was investigated in a study published in The Obesity Journal, looking at the 63,937 people referred to the scheme in its first year

Blood scandal campaigner hopes final report into NHS nightmare will bring accountability - 'but it's not about vengeance'

Carol Grayson told ChronicleLive what she was hoping to see in next month's final report from the Infected Blood Inquiry.

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GP fears NHS career over after he's let go by text

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Dr John Cosgrove, 49, says his agency told him he was no longer needed by text message.

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Lack of NHS dentist appointments not good enough, Tory former minister says

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Dame Andrea Jenkyns said her constituents are ‘desperately’ pleading for appointments, with one suffering from crumbling teeth during pregnancy.

Lack of NHS dentist appointments not good enough, Tory former minister says

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Dame Andrea Jenkyns said her constituents are ‘desperately’ pleading for appointments, with one suffering from crumbling teeth during pregnancy.

Lack of NHS dentist appointments not good enough, Tory former minister says

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Dame Andrea Jenkyns said her constituents are ‘desperately’ pleading for appointments, with one suffering from crumbling teeth during pregnancy.

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New NHS weight loss scheme sees people losing 8 pounds in three months

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People get referred by their GP based on a BMI test - and it helps with diet and physical activity advice

New NHS weight loss scheme sees people losing 8 pounds in three months

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People get referred by their GP based on a BMI test - and it helps with diet and physical activity advice

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Grieving teacher, 32, devastated by the loss of her baby took her own life while on unsupervised leave from mental health hospital - as inquest concludes NHS failures contributed to her death

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Kath Brace (pictured), 32, and her fiancé Dan Berry were left heartbroken when their son Otis passed away at just a day old following complications in March 2022.

Governor Healey rejects tolls along NH border following remarks from MassDOT secretary

Gov. Maura Healey rejected the idea of placing tolls along the New Hampshire border to generate funding for transportation initiatives. Massachusetts Department of Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt had suggested new tolls to…

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The one small change to hot drinks in care homes that could save the NHS £85 million per year

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The report says thousands of falls would be prevented and the NHS could save as much as £85 million per year