Firefighters and doctors brace for winter fires as people turn to cheap heating
High energy costs may lead people to turn off the central heating and try riskier methods to warm their homes.
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What does the NHS winter crisis mean for patients?
With staff shortages and Covid backlogs, the health service faces a challenging few months.
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Whitehall civil servants encouraged to get “affordable private healthcare” amid NHS crisis
Civil servants have been sent an email offering them the chance to sign up for private healthcare owing to “extended…
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Sick Britain: how economic inactivity has surged
A record 2.5 million people are not looking for work because they suffer from long-term sickness.
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NHS backlog tracker: How long are hospital waiting lists where you live?
The New Statesman tracks delays in NHS treatment in England by postcode.
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Can anyone save the NHS?
Short-term sticking plasters rather than long-term healing may be too tempting for Rishi Sunak’s unpopular government.
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The scourge of Long Covid
More than half a million Britons have had the post-Covid condition for more than two years.
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A night in a Kyiv bunker, palliative care in a war zone, and another chance for Jeremy Hunt
I recently visited Ukraine to help train doctors, and witnessed first-hand Putin’s brazen desire to rain terror on civilians.
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