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Junior doctors are set to strike this week

NHS set for “incredibly tough week” during junior doctors strikes

NHS call for responsible drinking during ambulance worker strikes

The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment across England are at record highs.

More than 40,000 patients on Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust hospitals waiting lists for...

NHS urges people to learn early signs of a heart attack with new campaign. (NHS England)

NHS urges people to learn early signs of a heart attack with new life-saving cam...

A total of 796 people arrived at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust A&E by ambulance in the week to January 9

Figures reveal winter and Covid pressures at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust

Frontline healthcare staff in England must be fully vaccinated against Covid by 1 April (Photo: Getty Images)

Healthcare staff face sack without exit payments under Covid jab plans

Work on eight hubs is due to begin this week (Photo: Getty Images)

New Covid Nightingale ‘surge hubs’ being set up to manage Omicron wave

Palforzia, an oral drug, appears to reduce the risk of harm when a peanut allergy sufferer comes into contact with the foodstuff (image: Shutterstock)

NHS England to offer new treatment to help tackle peanut allergies

Sajid Javid is not implementing Plan B measures for England (Photos: Getty)

Sajid Javid rules out Plan B but hints at mandatory jabs for NHS staff

How to book your Covid booster jab in the UK - and who is eligible to get one

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Unvaccinated university students have been urged to get a Covid vaccine in freshers’ week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Unvaccinated students urged to get coronavirus jab during Freshers’ week

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

Around half a million 44-year-olds will receive a text inviting them to get their jab through the national booking service, NHS England said (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

44-year-olds are being offered Covid jabs - why the rollout has been extended by...

The NHS will today start texting people inviting them to book their Covid vaccine, making it quicker and more convenient to get an appointment.

NHS to start sending text messages inviting people for Covid vaccine

The actress has been criticised by an NHS boss over her long Covid treatment regime (Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

An NHS boss says 'serious science' is needed to treat long Covid - and Gwyneth P...

The NHS waiting list in England could reach 10 million people by April 2021, according to the Reform think tank (Photo: Shutterstock)

Think tank says NHS has become a ‘National Covid service’ - but medical director...

(left to right) Healthcare Epidemiologist Consultant Susan Hopkins, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and NHS England National Medical Director Stephen Powis during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Downing Street, London. Picture date: Monday January 18, 2021. Photo: PA

'Don't blow it now', Health Secretary urges, as vaccination numbers rise

50 mass Covid vaccine centres and 2m jabs a week - is England’s plan feasible?

'We're on track to meet our target': what Matt Hancock said about the vaccine ro...

A small number of people have had allergic reactions to the Covid vaccine - this...

Most people over 80 won't get Covid jab until next year - here's why

Coronavirus cases are growing across the country (Photo: Shutterstock)

More people are currently hospitalised with coronavirus than in March - the late...

Medical experts are currently investigating a possible link between coronavirus and an inflammatory disease found among infants (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about Kawasaki disease affecting children - and if ...

Environment Secretary George Eustice. Photo: PA

Charities to receive £16m to put food on the table of the vulnerable

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of muddling the government's message on social distancing (Getty Images)

These are the lockdown rules for over-70s after the government's conflicting sta...

Figures reveal West Yorkshire residents follow lockdown advice as footfall drops

Figures reveal West Yorkshire residents are following the Government's lockdown ...

A woman looks at a mural of an NHS worker outside a pub in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Pic: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Government pledges to do 'everything we can' to help Yorkshire fight coronavirus
Every inch of available space in Yorkshire’s hospitals will be used to fight the coronavirus, it has been promised, as the Health Secretary assured the region the NHS would have everything it needed to fight the disease.

500,000 people have already volunteered to help the NHS - here’s what they will ...

Children play football in the park next to graffiti in support of the NHS. Photo:Justin Setterfield

405,000 people sign up for 'absolutely crucial' NHS volunteer army

A matrix road sign on the A367 into Bath advises motorists to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the UK in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

'Your NHS needs you': Government calls for 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS fi...

Tens of thousands of retired doctors, nurses and emergency workers are being ask...