BBC The government will not “be held to ransom” by striking doctors, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said. A five-day walkout by resident doctors is due to take place between 14-19 November, in a long-running dispute over pay. Streeting told the BBC there was a deal available to increase the number of speciality training places … Read more
PA Media Wes Streeting has urged people to listen to UK doctors and scientists, not Donald Trump, when it comes to paracetamol use Pregnant women should ignore Donald Trump’s claims that taking paracetamol could lead to their child having autism, the UK’s health secretary has said. “I trust doctors over President Trump,” Wes Streeting told … Read more
Nick Triggle & Michael Buchanan BBC News Getty Images Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said “we must act now” as he announced a national investigation into maternity care in England. The “rapid” inquiry will urgently look at the worst-performing maternity and neonatal services in the country, including Leeds, Sussex, Gloucester, and Mid and South Essex. … Read more
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said there is a “risk of disruption” in the NHS as he attempts to overhaul the service and reduce waste, but has promised long-term improvements. On Thursday, Streeting announced NHS England, a public administrative body, would be scrapped to save money and give ministers more control of health services. The … Read more
Getty Images The health secretary has said some patients’ experience of the NHS this winter makes him feel “ashamed”. Wes Streeting said he had seen patients left crying and distressed and stuck in corridors, as hospitals struggle to cope. It comes as a number of NHS trusts declare critical incidents due to exceptionally high demand … Read more
Getty Images MPs are due to vote on a bill next month that could make the process legal in England and Wales The health secretary has said he is worried that legalising assisted dying could risk ill people feeling “guilt-tripped” into ending their own lives. It emerged last week that Wes Streeting had privately told … Read more
Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vote against changing the law on assisted dying, the BBC has confirmed. Backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has put forward a bill proposing that terminally ill adults nearing the end of their lives get the right to choose to shorten their deaths if they wish. But in a meeting of … Read more
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed suggestions that plans to provide weight loss jabs to unemployed people with obesity are “dystopian.”. The UK government is launching a five-year trial with pharmaceutical giant Lilly to test if the weight-loss drug Mounjaro can help get more people back to work and ease the strain on the NHS … Read more
The health secretary is expected to urge GPs in England to end collective action and warn it will “only punish patients” in a speech on Friday. Addressing the Royal College of GPs conference in Liverpool, Wes Streeting is set to say he understands why doctors “wanted to give the previous government a kicking”. But he … Read more
An independent review of NHS performance in England has been ordered by the new health secretary. Wes Streeting said he wants the investigation to tell the “hard truths” about what he has called a broken service. Writing in the Sun newspaper, he said it will help inform his forthcoming 10-year plan for the NHS. Mr … Read more