Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses at the party’s 85th Plenary Session, in Atal Nagar-Nava Raipur on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Enacting a law named the ‘Rohith Vemula Act’ “to safeguard the right to education and dignity” for the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and minorities; creating a dedicated Ministry for … Read more
The singer pays for a day’s worth of scans and pledges to do more. Source link
Rishi Sunak also makes pledges on the economy and small boat crossings in his first major speech of 2023. Source link
A taskforce has also been set up to unlock spare beds and theatres in the private sector. Source link
“The changing nature of surgical speciality means delivering emergency general surgery across multiple smaller sites with a lower patient turnover is becoming increasingly difficult in terms of rotas, staff recruitment and retention, skill mix, and maintaining quality care,” he said. Source link
A patient paid to diagnose slipped discs and is living in pain with private surgery costing £15,000. Source link
Jessica Ricketts is one of 164,000 patients who’ve been on waiting lists for more than a year. Source link
Ambulance queues When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, … Read more
Wes Streeting tells the BBC he would reluctantly make use of private providers, as health secretary. Source link
He describes the staffing crisis as “entirely predictable”, adding: “The current wave of Omicron is exacerbating the problem, but we already had a serious staffing crisis, with a burnt-out workforce, 93,000 NHS vacancies and no sign of any plan to address this. Source link