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Schools face more strikes as union urges teachers to reject pay deal

National Education Union brands Government’s pay offer ‘insulting’

Mar 27, 2023
World
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Female shooter kills six in massacre at school in Nashville

Three adults and three children were killed in the shooting before the ‘teenage’ suspect was shot dead by police

Mar 27, 2023
UK

Heathrow announces contingency plan for 10-day airport security strike

Members of Unite working in Terminal Five will walk out from Friday in a dispute over pay

Mar 27, 2023
Health

New cancer centre at Barts ‘could transform lives’ for patients

Exclusive: London’s oldest hospital launches campaign to raise money for centre to treat capital’s most vulnerable patients

Mar 24, 2023
Health

Key cancer target missed as 22,000 face two-month treatment wait

Social care minister Helen Whately admitted that the waiting list target has been well exceeded

Mar 24, 2023
Health

BMA ‘extremely sorry’ to patients disrupted by junior doctors strike

Union says Government have ‘pushed them’ into industrial action

Mar 24, 2023
Health

Black Caribbean patients ‘more likely to have chronic health problems’

Exclusive: New report finds that nearly half of Black Caribbean patients in Southwark and Lambeth had more than two long-term health conditions

Mar 23, 2023
Health

Number of full-time London GPs down by nearly 100 in a year

Fewer family doctors are working in the capital compared to last year despite rise in demand

Mar 23, 2023
Health

Polio vaccine catch-up campaign for primary school children in London

Health officials say vaccine rates in some London boroughs is still too low

Mar 23, 2023
Health

Young Londoners with eating disorders face longest treatment wait

Just over half of children aged under 18 receiving treatment following routine referral in the capital

Mar 22, 2023
Health

Londoners spend £1.45bn a year on illegal cannabis to self-medicate

Study finds many with debilitating conditions using drug to self-medicate despite treatment being available on the NHS and in private clinics

Mar 22, 2023
Health

Tributes to ‘hugely respected’ London GP who died suddenly aged 42

Dr Rizwan Irshad oversaw care for 45,000 patients at six practices in Croydon and Greenwich

Mar 21, 2023
Health

London hotspots for lung disease revealed as Tower Hamlets tops list

Charity says poorer areas in capital more exposed to pollution and effects of poor housing

Mar 21, 2023
Health

London eye patients losing their vision due to long NHS waits

Report warns that hundreds of patients are suffering from irreversible sight loss and struggilng with day to day tasks

Mar 21, 2023
Health

Britain not prepared for bird flu pandemic, warns top professor

Scientist warns diagnostic testing capacity is not advanced enough to cope with virus if it jumps to humans

Mar 20, 2023
Health

‘Game changing’ infrared imaging could help treat child cancer

The technique involves the injection of chemicals into the bloodstream which act as imaging probes

Mar 20, 2023
Film

Allelujah film review: a loving but ill-judged portrait of the NHS

This film is an incoherent jumble of ideas and feelings that fails to land the message it intends

Mar 20, 2023
Health

One in four ambulances queueing outside London hospitals

Figures suggest hospitals in the capital struggling to discharge patients into social care

Mar 20, 2023
Health

How first Covid wave devastated East London’s Somali community

New report concludes that poor housing, insecure employment and late lockdown contributed to high number of deaths in community

Mar 17, 2023
Health

New blood test can identify 70 early stage cancers

The TruCheck Intelli test works by detecting tumour cells in the blood

Mar 17, 2023