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Telegraph Money investigation finds health service is struggling to deal with rising fraud with one Trust losing £130,000 to a single scam

NHS and hospital workers are set to join to march and demand a 15 per cent pay rise.

NHS workers will be marching in solidarity to demand a pay rise they say they were denied last year by the Government during the height of the…

It’s not just Labour that’s in trouble: across the continent, once-mighty social democratic parties are in crisis

PRIVATE hospitals provided less healthcare to the NHS during the pandemic than they did in 2019, despite receiving £1 billion in government funding, the People’s Covid Inquiry has heard. The Covid contracts to private hospitals were supposed to support 8,000 beds for NHS patients, the inquiry heard, but they provided for only 67 patients per day at the pandemic’s peak. The seventh session of the inquiry, organised by Keep Our NHS Public (KONP), on Wednesday evening heard from medical p...

THE plan to hand medical practices with hundreds of thousands of patients to a scandal-ridden US health privateer is to be challenged in court. North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), a government body that awards contracts for NHS provision, is handing eight GP practices with 375,000 patients to US health insurance firm Centene. The company and its web of subsidiaries have a track record of falsely claiming taxpayers’ income and of failing to provide adequate health servi...

‘Any inquiry must involve bereaved families from the start,’ Bereaved Families for Justice says, warning that ‘the devil will be in the detail’

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: A week ago the headline on our editorial said Almost everyone in this country has better things to worry about than Boris and Carries wallpaper.

ACCESS to healthcare by minority-ethnic and low-income groups has been hit by the move to online GP consultations during the pandemic, the People’s Covid Inquiry has heard. Dr Latifa Patel, vice-chairwoman of the British Medical Association, explained to the inquiry — organised by the Keep Our NHS Public campaign group in the absence of an official probe — how the move online had especially disadvantaged particular social groups. Speaking in her personal capacity, Dr Patel said: “Whe...

Last modified on Tue 4 May 2021 01.39 EDT Top story: Local elections campaigning heats up Hello, I’m Warren Murray back with Tuesday’s news. The UK still has a system that allows power to be abused, Keir Starmer has said, pledging that the Labour party will “clean up our politics”. In the final days before polls close for local, mayoral, Welsh and Scottish elections, the Labour leader will attempt to draw a close connection between the stories of Tory sleaze and their effect on ordinary...