NHS waiting list at lowest level in three years

Lisa Summers,Scotland health and social care correspondentand Catherine Lyst,BBC Scotland Getty Images Scotland’s resident doctors are to go on strike in a dispute over pay – the first time a national walkout has been staged by NHS workers. Their union BMA Scotland had accused the government of reneging on a commitment to restore pay to…

The NHS in England came within “six or seven hours” of running out of gowns and other protective equipment during the Covid pandemic, Matt Hancock has said. The former health secretary was giving evidence for the third time at the Covid inquiry, about the impact on healthcare systems. He stated there was never a “national…

Official data shows that more complex care, in particular, has become much harder to access on the NHS. Over the last ten years, the number of routine NHS examinations has fallen by 6% in England while the number of root canals, where an infection is removed from deep inside the tooth, has dropped by 49%.