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Hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in the UK are being forced to pay for private treatment amid record NHS waiting times, according to data obtained by the Guardian. The proportion of … Read more

The Guardian reports that patients who face long NHS waiting lists and cannot afford to go private are being encouraged to sign up for “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) deals … Read more

The Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, former first lady of South Africa and Mozambique Graça Machel and former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon are among nearly 200 signatories to a letter calling on … Read more

NHS dentistry is facing a “twin crisis of access and affordability”, according to the watchdog Healthwatch England, which means in reality for many people NHS dentistry no longer exists. The … Read more

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The department of reproductive medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, the UK’s oldest NHS fertility clinic, is at risk of closure and another centre has been put out for privatisation, as IVF … Read more

According to the German newspaper Die Welt, the Trump administration offered “large sums of money” to a German biopharmaceutical firm to move its research on a coronavirus vaccine to the USA. The company, … Read more

More and more people do not go to the dentist because it’s too expensive, according to research by Hudgell Solicitors. Even under the NHS in the UK checkups cost £22.50, … Read more

An investigation by HSJ has found that hospital trusts are continuing to allow patients to pay to have procedures which are banned or tightly restricted on the NHS. The news … Read more

Trisha Costello was fined £160 fine after her daughter had gone for a check-up at the dentist. The fine was overturned, but it was one of 1.7 million fines over … Read more

The Guardian reports that record numbers of suspected cancer patients are facing delays before starting their treatment amid growing pressure on increasingly overstretched NHS services for the disease. In the … Read more

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