Patients have been left "languishing on waiting lists" as NHS staff took a record eight million days off work last year with mental health issues such as anxiety and stress, up 42% since 2020.
Strikes by junior doctors have cost the taxpayer at least £3 billion, with the 15th round of industrial action in three years set to start at 7am on Tuesday.
NHS doctor Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who has been charged with posting on social media in support of Hamas after she wrote "I don't condemn October 7th", shouted "game on" after being released on bail.
Junior doctors are claiming to have ADHD and dyslexia to get out of night shifts, NHS leaders have claimed, with one in eight doctors under 35 now classed as disabled, a majority of whom cite mental illness.
NHS spending has doubled in 17 years with "no impact" on the nation’s health, former health minister Lord Bethell has admitted, with deteriorating clinical outcomes and flatlining life expectancy.
The controversial NHS Pathways trial of puberty blockers for children will be paused following concerns from healthcare regulator the MHRA, with campaigners now calling for it to be cancelled completely.
Fury has broken out after a Filipino migrant was given NHS-funded gender reassignment surgery worth tens of thousands – before even finding out if they'd be allowed to stay in Britain.
The NHS has been told to "stop discouraging cousin marriage" as genetic disorders are only "slightly increased". In fact, the risk is well over double, says Guy de la Bédoyère, and worsens in successive generations.
Bradford NHS hospital trust has recruited a nurse to support families where parents are close relatives, in an area where up to half of Pakistani married couples are cousins.
Labour is paying hospitals £3 million a month to delete patients from waiting lists – making it look like the NHS is treating more people than it is.
