Critical incident declared at Nottingham hospitals

From today, every GP practice in England will have to offer online appointment bookings throughout the day. The move, ordered by the government, is aimed at reducing the so-called ‘8am scramble’ to get through to practices on the phone. Surgeries will have to provide the service from 08:00 to 18:30 Monday to Friday. Alongside requesting…

An urgent review is needed to make sure people in England can get weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro on the NHS, top experts warn. It comes a day after the prime minister said such injections could boost Britain’s economy by getting obese unemployed people “back into work”. More than 200 doctors and…

An NHS trust at the centre of concerns over its poor maternity services has had to repay almost £5m after wrongly claiming it provided safe care to mothers and their babies. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was paid the money after saying its services met safe standards of care and staffing. But a subsequent investigation…

The government defines this as having a “good level of development” in the Early Years Foundation Stage assessment, which is based on teachers’ assessments in areas such as language, personal, social and emotional development, and maths and literacy.

The “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Overwhelmed medical centres are resorting to treating patients on mattresses on the floor, MSF said, as the country’s two-year civil war aids the spread of the disease. Sylvain Penicaud,…