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National Health Service (England): Publicly-funded healthcare system in England
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde. Primarily funded by the government from general taxation, and overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS provides healthcare to all legal English residents and residents from other regions of the UK, with most services free at the point of use for most people. The NHS also conducts research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

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Health secretary visits London Ambulance HQ [Video]

Health secretary visits London Ambulance HQ

Health Secretary Wes Streeting and NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard visit the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service. Mr Streeting insists the government has “hit the ground running”..

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Health secretary visits NHSE operations centre [Video]

Health secretary visits NHSE operations centre

Health Secretary Wes Streeting and NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard visit the service's National Operations Centre to highlight increasing pressures facing A&E services going into winter...

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Swinney: NHS central to Scottish budget priorities [Video]

Swinney: NHS central to Scottish budget priorities

Support for the “vital and precious” institution of the NHS will be at the heart of the upcoming Scottish Budget, John Swinney has said. The First Minister visited Forth Valley Royal Hospital in..

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Ex-chair of Letby hospital trust gives inquiry evidence [Video]

Ex-chair of Letby hospital trust gives inquiry evidence

Sir Duncan Nichol, the former chairman of the NHS trust where Lucy Letby worked, arrives to give evidence to the Thirlwall Inquiry. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn..

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Keir Starmer pledges investment in end-of-life care [Video]

Keir Starmer pledges investment in end-of-life care

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged Government investment in end-of-life care, regardless of the outcome of the vote on the Assisted Dying Bill. The prime minister described the importance of the vote, adding..

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Government announces plans to 'get Britain working again' [Video]

Government announces plans to 'get Britain working again'

Areas with the highest rates of unemployment are set to receive additional NHS support as part of the Government's effort to revitalise employment across the UK. The Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz..

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RCN: Long Covid support still failing NHS staff [Video]

RCN: Long Covid support still failing NHS staff

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied essential financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body recommended action, according to the Royal..

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Chancellor hails US investment in Cambridge campus [Video]

Chancellor hails US investment in Cambridge campus

Rachel Reeves describes a £500 million private investment by a US firm Prologis into Cambridge Biomedical Campus as a "real show of confidence in what this Government are doing to grow the economy"...

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Man jailed for life after raping and killing NHS worker in London park

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A man who raped and killed an NHS worker in an attack on a park bench has been jailed for life.
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A "tidal wave" of flu infections has led to a 70% increase in hospital cases in England in just seven days, the NHS has said.
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Some hospitals in England were within "six or seven hours" of running out of personal protective equipment in the early stages of the COVID pandemic, a former health secretary has admitted.
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Failing NHS trusts to be named and shamed and cancelled pay rises for managers among health reforms

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NHS league tables revealing failing NHS trusts and cancelled pay rises or dismissal for managers who don't turn things around are to form part of the government's plans to improve the health service.
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'Game-changer' stop-smoking pill to be offered on NHS

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A "game-changer" pill is to be offered to tens of thousands of smokers in England who are trying to quit.
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The Olympic cycling champion, who has terminal cancer, wants more younger men to get checked.
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King and Prince William's private estates 'making millions from public bodies'

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NHS pilots new iPhone adapter to check patients for cancer

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Rock star in cancer remission after drug trial

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NHS cancer advice page visited every 16 seconds following Jamie Theakston's cancer diagnosis

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Sir Ed Davey has said the NHS "cannot withstand" Labour reforms without more funding.
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People who are racist to NHS staff 'can and should' be refused care, health secretary says

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Software provider faces £6m fine for failing to protect NHS from ransomware attack

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A major NHS IT provider faces a penalty of just over £6m for failures which led to a cyber attack and the theft of nearly 83,000 medical records.
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The NHS doctor packing up his stethoscope for a new life - as British medics targeted by recruiters

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Shingles vaccine on NHS could significantly delay onset of dementia, study suggests

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A vaccine being used by the NHS to prevent shingles could also significantly delay the onset of dementia, according to new research that has left scientists baffled.
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Govt body's procedures means people with cancer aren't getting drug - AstraZeneca boss

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The chief executive of AstraZeneca has criticised a public health body for refusing to make one of its breast cancer treatments available to NHS patients in England and Wales.
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National alert from NHS over blood type shortages

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The firm behind the global IT outage that cost companies billions, ground 5% of the world's air traffic and brought NHS systems to their knees has given out $10 food vouchers to say sorry.
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NHS warns of GP disruption next week after IT outage - as travellers report long delays and lost baggage

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The NHS has warned of "continued disruption" to GP services into next week following the global IT outage - as airline passengers reported lengthy delays and lost baggage this weekend.
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From banking to flights and supermarkets: Charts show when IT outages peaked across services

Outages have been reported today across airlines, supermarkets, banking and communication services as well as the NHS and trains.
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