Department of Health

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spends her last hours in the job not doing it. She should have been trying to solve the eleventh hospital doctors’ strike that started yesterday. Instead, she flitted round the “spin room” of a TV studio in…

Getting rid of useless medical gear ordered during the pandemic is costing us £107,500 a day.Taxpayers face a £29million bill over nine months to destroy duff personal protective equipment. The cash could pay for 2,678 heart bypasses or…

Ken Clarke is facing calls to be stripped of his peerage over how he responded to the infected blood scandal as Margaret Thatcher’s Health Secretary.The Tory was criticised by inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff for claiming in 1983 there…

The worst treatment disaster in the history of the health service was covered up by the Government and the NHS - with key documents deliberately destroyed. Campaigners today demanded that those responsible for infected blood mistakes…

Ministers are set introduce plans to restrict vape adverts and sponsorships featuring on sports shirts, MPs heard. Health Minister Dame Andrea Leadsom confirmed she will be bringing forward proposals to address concerns around vape…

The White House has issued new rules aimed at companies that manufacture synthetic DNA after years of warnings that a pathogen made with mail-order genetic material could accidentally or intentionally spark the next pandemic.The rules,…

Cancer sufferers are being left ready greater than a 12 months to begin life-saving remedy. Last 12 months, six NHS trusts in England recorded folks ready longer than 12 months. One affected person at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waited a…

"We only wanted to help," says a girl who lied in regards to the truth she additionally needed a £60m revenue, a peerage, and no questions from journalists about any of it."This job is an immense privilege," says a person of immense…

Michael Gove is below stress to seem earlier than MPs after he was name-checked by Baroness Michelle Mone in an interview the place she lastly admitted to benefitting from an enormous PPE deal.Baroness Mone, the lingerie tycoon,…

A bitter pay dispute between the Tories and NHS consultants might be nearing an finish after a deal was struck.The Department of Health introduced the 2 sides “have reached an agreement to put an offer to union members following…