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Workers' Rights / 30 July 2026

Staff at Kingston and Richmond NHS Trust stage strike over payment issues

30 July 2026

Ambulances waiting at an Emergency Department (A&E) at the R

NHS Crisis / 30 July 2026

Elderly twice as likely to wait more than 12 hours in A&E

30 July 2026

Scottish First Minister John Swinney during his visit to mental health charity The Lighthouse for Perth, in Perthshire, for an announcement on funding to enhance emergency mental health support services, February 18, 2026

Healthcare / 30 July 2026

Scottish health and social care integration ‘failing’ mental patients, warn medics

30 July 2026

First Minister John Swinney with orthopedic technician Stuart Main during a visit to National Treatment Centre - Fife Orthopaedics in Kirkcaldy, where he announced funding to reduce long waits for NHS treatment, July 27, 2026

SNP / 28 July 2026

Cutting long NHS waits will be his government’s legacy, says Swinney

28 July 2026

A registration form and a stethoscope at the Temple Fortune Health Centre GP Practice near Golders Green, London

Privatisation / 27 July 2026

Control of NHS patient records handed to US private equity firm in £300m deal

27 July 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham (centre) during a National Economic Council meeting at No 10 North, located in Heron House, central Manchester. Mr Burnham has said No 10 North is

Politics / 27 July 2026

National care service now!

27 July 2026

Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism

An Accident and Emergency sign, May 21, 2013

NHS Crisis / 22 July 2026

Ministers urged to tackle ‘national scandal’ of A&E waits

22 July 2026

The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed

Corridor Care / 22 July 2026

Recent governments have taken their eye off the ball on delayed discharges, Age UK warns

22 July 2026

Health Secretary James Murray during a visit to Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire where he saw how, the hospital which was near the bottom of the league tables three years ago and corridor care had become normalised, now is consistently within the top 10 NHS Trusts in the country for A&E waiting times and have eliminated corridor care, July 9, 2026

Healthcare / 9 July 2026

More than 3,000 people a day treated in corridors in June as summer strains NHS

9 July 2026

Health workers form a blockade in Soho Square during a protest outside the London headquarters of US tech giant Palantir, December 21, 2023

Big Tech / 9 July 2026

Health Committee urges government to cut ties with Palantir

9 July 2026

Health Service / 6 July 2026

Patients let down by ambulance waits, say Scottish Labour

6 July 2026

NHS staff blockade the entrance to NHS England's headquarters in central London demanding the cancellation of its contract with Palantir, which supplies advanced technology to Israel's military, April 3, 2024

Big Tech / 3 July 2026

Top civil servant recuses herself from working on Palantir contract following conflict of interest concerns

3 July 2026

NHS resident doctors outside Leeds General Infirmary, as thousands of resident doctors go on strike across England in a dispute over pay, November 14, 2025

Workers' Rights / 2 July 2026

GPs to reject new hospital requests for shared care

2 July 2026

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London

NHS / 30 June 2026

Health minister takes action to run failing North Wales health board

30 June 2026

Resident doctors on the picket line outside Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, June 29, 2026

Workers' Rights / 30 June 2026

Settling resident doctors' strike cost less than a week of walkouts, Health Secretary says

30 June 2026

Staff on an NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, January 18, 2023

Climate Emergency / 25 June 2026

‘Conditions are awful’: NHS not ready for extreme weather, physicians warn

25 June 2026

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks to supporters, backed by his newly elected Senedd members on the steps of the Senedd, May 9, 2026

Economy / 23 June 2026

Plaid set out their budget priorities for Wales

23 June 2026

NHS resident doctors protesting outside Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, July 25, 2025

Workers' Rights / 18 June 2026

Resident doctors begin vote on new government deal on pay and jobs

18 June 2026

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Workers' Rights / 18 June 2026

NHS staff forced to rely on credit cards to pay bills, Unison survey finds

18 June 2026

Staff on an NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, January 2023

Healthcare / 18 June 2026

Staff shortages driving ‘extremely dangerous’ delays in cancer care

18 June 2026

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NHS Crisis / 16 June 2026

More hospital patients at risk of rotting rats in dilapidated NHS buildings, Unison research shows

16 June 2026

NHS staff blockade the entrance to NHS England's headquarters in central London demanding the cancellation of its contract with Palantir, which campaign groups say supplies advanced technology to Israel's military, April 3, 2024

Big Tech / 11 May 2026

Campaigners and union reps demand NHS ‘cease all contracts with Palantir’

11 May 2026

US tech giant granted ‘unlimited access’ to patients’ data

Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, as resident doctors in England begin six-days of industrial action in their ongoing row over pay and jobs, April 7, 2026

Workers' Rights / 11 May 2026

Senior doctors across England balloted on taking strike action

11 May 2026

NHS / 6 May 2026

Welsh health board director urged to resign as Unite announces more strikes

6 May 2026