The impartial Institute for Fiscal Studies also warned that her manifesto vow to invest £2.5 billion may not be enough to keep up with spiralling demand. Experts also questioned the First Minister’s pre-election promise to freeze taxes as rivals claimed her “pre-election
NHS waiting list hits record 4.7m after Covid pandemic… with almost half a million patients holding on for treatment for a YEAR Doctors say the NHS ‘has been set back years’ after the backlog of those waiting more than 12 months reached
A former NHS management consultant earning £2,000 a day was a serial fraudster who siphoned nearly £1.4 million from a string of companies and the health service. Chartered accountant Stephen Day has been jailed for 11 years and five months after admitting 12
More than 30 per cent of black over-60s have still not had their first Covid vaccine despite No10’s PR blitz to encourage uptake among BAME people, data has shown. The proportion of black people who have not had a jab is nearly
A record 4.7million people are now waiting for routine hospital treatment, official data showed today as the NHS scrambles to catch up with a Covid backlog. Of them, nearly 400,000 people have waited more than a year for treatment — the highest
The remote isle where EVERYONE is fully jabbed: All 35 adults living on Fair Isle get Covid vaccine Fair Isle lies between Orkney and Shetland and is renowned for its knitwear NHS Shetland said all adults on the island were given second
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has cut emergency hospital admissions for the disease by three quarters in elderly people, an NHS study has found. Sir Simon Stevens, CEO of the health service in England, said ‘vaccines are successfully reducing hospitalisations and deaths’. A study
Just 175 Covid patients are now being admitted to hospital every day in England – down from more than 4,000 in January… and rates are falling quicker in over-65s because of vaccines, data shows NHS England statistics showed 51 per cent of
The impartial Institute for Fiscal Studies found increases had been “significantly smaller” than south of the Border, where the Conservatives have been in power for more than a decade. Its analysis of official estimates said spending on health per person had gone
‘Prophet of doom’ experts warn lockdown easing could delay lockdown-easing plans and say Boris Johnson may have to pause his roadmap if South African variant spreads Chief of NHS Providers said a third and potentially fourth wave was ‘likely’ He urged Britons