Jane Kirby
Science
Patients with advanced skin cancer to test a new vaccine in NHS drive
The programme has already given thousands of patients better access to a personalised vaccine for bowel cancer.
By Jane Kirby
14 Apr 2025
Science
Virus detection method paves way for quicker pandemic response – study
Isolating infected people and contact tracing could become faster, slowing down the spread of deadly illnesses.
By Jane Kirby
17 Jan 2024
Tech
Video gamers risk irreversible hearing loss and tinnitus – study
A review of 14 global studies involving more than 50,000 people found that sound levels are often near, or exceed, safe limits.
By Jane Kirby
16 Jan 2024
Health
NHS waiting list higher than when Rishi Sunak pledged it would fall – data
Recent strikes by junior doctors along with flu and Covid hospital admissions are likely to have added to NHS pressures.
By Jane Kirby
11 Jan 2024
Politics
NHS fails to hit key targets despite drop in waiting list
The Government and NHS England set the ambition of eliminating all waits of more than 18 months by April 2023.
By Jane Kirby
11 Jan 2024
Business News
Combination of strikes and rise in flu and Covid ‘a perfect storm for the NHS’
Figures published by NHS England on Friday show the number of flu patients jumped by more than a third over Christmas.
By Jane Kirby
5 Jan 2024
Health
Thousands of parents turning to mental health charity for help supporting child
The main topics parents contact Young Minds about are their child’s anxiety, anger, depression and low mood, behaviour and autism.
By Jane Kirby
1 Jan 2024
Science
Woman struck twice by tonsil cancer celebrates as tumour shrinks in half
Jeanette Joyce says she is grateful for a clinical trial which allowed her to try a new immunotherapy drug regime.
By Jane Kirby
28 Dec 2023
Politics
Third of ambulance patients wait 30 minutes or longer to be handed over to A&E
NHS England data shows some patients still face long waits in the back of ambulances before space can be found.
By Jane Kirby
14 Dec 2023
Politics
Matt Hancock admits affair with aide damaged public confidence
Mr Hancock resigned as health secretary in June 2021 over an affair with Gina Coladangelo
By Jane Kirby
1 Dec 2023
Politics
Sick pay in the UK is ‘far too low’, Matt Hancock tells Covid inquiry
The former health secretary told the inquiry that if he ‘had a magic wand’, he would double sick pay across the UK.
By Jane Kirby
1 Dec 2023
Crime
Sunak would have put ‘enormous pressure’ on Johnson – Covid inquiry
Former health secretary Matt Hancock is giving evidence for a second day.
By Jane Kirby
1 Dec 2023
Politics
People with Covid discharged to care homes over fears for NHS, inquiry told
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, England’s deputy chief medical officer, has been giving evidence to the Covid-19 public inquiry.
By Jane Kirby
29 Nov 2023
Politics
Johnson said ‘malingering’ people should get back to work, Covid inquiry hears
More extracts from Professor Sir Patrick Vallance’s diaries have been shown at the inquiry.
By Jane Kirby
29 Nov 2023
Health
GP appointments over the phone or online can ‘put patients at risk’
Some of the errors made related to serious conditions.
By Jane Kirby
29 Nov 2023
Politics
Whitty never told about Eat Out to Help Out but ‘should have been’ – inquiry
England’s chief medical officer is giving evidence to the public inquiry into the handling of Covid-19 for a second day.
By Jane Kirby
22 Nov 2023
Politics
Government would have paid more attention if threat had been terrorism – Whitty
The chief medical officer described system failures which meant there was a lack of people becoming ‘electrified’ by the knowledge they had.
By Jane Kirby
21 Nov 2023
Politics21 Nov 2023
Boris Johnson's decision-making was 'unique', Sir Chris Whitty says
England's chief medical officer told the Covid Inquiry that the Government was 'chaotic'
Politics
Action against Covid-19 was taken too late, Whitty tells pandemic inquiry
England’s chief medical officer said the risks of going into lockdown too early or too late had to be balanced.
By Jane Kirby
21 Nov 2023
Health20 Nov 2023
Rishi Sunak thought 'just let people die', Covid inquiry told
Sir Patrick Vallance wrote in his pandemic diaries about claim made by Dominic Cummings about then chancellor in heated meeting about lockdowns
Politics
Boris Johnson ‘bamboozled’ by graphs during Covid pandemic, inquiry hears
Sir Patrick Vallance is giving evidence to the Covid-19 public inquiry on the Government’s response to the pandemic.
By Jane Kirby
20 Nov 2023