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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to cut NHS waiting lists as one of his top priorities.

Read about a letter to Jeremy Hunt calling for him to include student loan forgiveness for nurses in his 2024 spring budget.

Medical leaders have voiced concerns about the pace of the government’s pledge to boost medical school places over the next few years, as it emerged that funding has been approved for only an additional 350 places in 2025-26. In its NHS Long Term Workforce Plan last year the government promised that it would double medical school places in England, from 7500 to 15 000 a year by 2031-32.1 However, a letter has confirmed that just 350 additional places are to be funded for the 2025-26 academic...

Seeing a regular doctor meant patients waited longer until their next visit without taking up more of a GP’s time, a study found.

Seeing a regular doctor meant patients waited longer until their next visit without taking up more of a GP’s time, a study found.

Seeing a regular doctor meant patients waited longer until their next visit without taking up more of a GP’s time, a study found.

Seeing a regular doctor meant patients waited longer until their next visit without taking up more of a GP’s time, a study found.

Seeing a regular doctor meant patients waited longer until their next visit without taking up more of a GP’s time, a study found.

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins: The NHS belongs to all of us, not just the junior doctors committee of the British Medical Association.

Read about the findings of a review, by the King's Fund, of mental health care across England including state of the nursing workforce.