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A host of more hospitals have come forward to report they may have been built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), the BBC reports. The government said it had ordered urgent surveys of tens of the sites and was working quickly to establish the scale of the problem. The NHS...

Rishi Sunak’s pledge to cut the NHS waiting list backlog is being threatened by the crumbling concrete crisis as affected hospitals warn they will be forced to shut wards and theatres, the Independent reports. Hospitals were told they had buildings prone to collapse in 2019 but four years later they...

NHS bosses have told hospitals across England to be ready to evacuate staff and patients if buildings containing concrete at risk of collapse start to fall down, the Guardian reports. NHS England issued the instruction to all 224 health trusts on Tuesday in the wake of the row over reinforced...

The Daily Mail reports Daily 4am queues for the dentist risk becoming the 'new normal', experts have warned. Leigh, in Greater Manchester, has joined a growing list of communities where struggling patients have queued from the break of dawn to access a dentist. It follows reports from Faversham, in Kent,...

The proportion of adults seen by NHS dentists in West Northamptonshire over the past two years remains below pre-pandemic levels, new figures show. It comes as the British Dental Association call for "radical and urgent change" to help NHS dentistry recover from the impact of Covid-19. Figures from the NHS...

Warrington residents’ struggles in visiting the dentist have been laid bare in damning new statistics. The proportion of adults seen by NHS dentists in the town over the past two years remains below pre-pandemic levels. It comes as the British Dental Association call for ‘radical and urgent change’ to help...

More than 120,000 people in England died last year while on the NHS waiting list for hospital treatment, figures obtained by Labour appear to show. That would be a record high number of such deaths, and is double the 60,000 patients who died in 2017/18. For example, the Royal Free...

The BBC reports that the proposed ban of nitrous oxide could stop users seeking medical help in hospitals, health experts have warned. In a letter to the government, seen by BBC Newsnight, 15 neurologists and related health experts say possession of the drug should not be criminalised. Despite rising numbers...

The number of appointments and treatments postponed by strike action in the NHS in England is nearing one million. The 48-hour walkout by consultants in England last week saw more than 45,000 appointments being cancelled. It brings the total number of postponed hospital appointments since industrial action began in the...