Psychiatric care 'collapsing' amid 'unsafe' mixed wards, bed shortages and poor safeguarding
Tuesday, 20 February 2024 The NHS England psychiatric care system is "collapsing" under the weight of "unsafe" mixed gender care spaces, inadequate safeguarding protections and bed shortages, according to former and current staff members who have spoken exclusively to Sky News.
Past and present staff in England's NHS psychiatric care system have told Sky News the service is falling apart and is at the point of "collapse".
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer pledges to cut NHS waiting lists during a speech in the Midlands. Speaking at a Q & A with shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, Starmer told the audience, “we’ve done it before, we can do it again.”
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Labour will pledge to clear the backlog of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for NHS treatment within five years of government if the party gets into power. Sky News
An escalation process that allows patients to demand a second opinion if they think their condition, or that of a loved one, is deteriorating but their concerns.. Sky News
Sir Keir Starmer has promised an extra 40,000 NHS appointments per week in a bid to reduce waiting lists. The Labour party leader pledged to make healthcare a priority if his party gets into power in July. "That will make a massive difference to the lives of people and not just to their physical health," he added.
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It’s been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. Between 1970 and 1991, 30,000 people were infected with HIV or Hepatitis C after being treated with contaminated blood. Today the final report from the infected blood inquiry says the scandal was “no accident.” Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Mukesh, a 22-year-old from Munak in the northern state of Haryana, shows Sky News the scars all over his body he says are from torture in a Russian prison. Sky News
The House of Commons green benches have fallen silent in Westminster and it's time for us, the United Kingdom, to choose who will occupy them next. Sky News
On 12 June, Sky News will be hosting an election leaders event in Grimsby - a key marginal seat and one of our Target Towns this election year. Sky News
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
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