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Weekly News Summary – 10th May 2018

10th May 2018

Jeremy Hunt has given some private hospitals two weeks to devise plans to improve on safety and quality.

3rd May 2018

This week Jeremy Hunt has admitted that 450,000 women could be affected by an error in releasing breast cancer screening reminders.

26th April 2018

New reports have recommended that Northern Ireland changes its laws to allow abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

20th April 2018

A study has found that employees of the National Health Service are more reliant on payday loans that employees of any other organisation.

19th April 2018

On 18th April it was announced that the highest paid doctors in Scotland are mostly men. Here we examine the gender pay gap in the NHS.

12th April 2018

A new personalised vaccine that boosts the immune system has been shown to almost double the number of women surviving ovarian cancer.

4th April 2018

NHS England are aiming to introduce “one-stop shops” to speed up cancer diagnosis - read more of this week's medical news here!

23rd March 2018

In Wales the proportion of patients spending under the four hours target time in A&E was the lowest since records started.

15th March 2018

UK researchers have started to develop a new vaccine that works in pill form.

8th March 2018

Coroners have highlighted 45 cases in England and Wales over the last six years whose healthcare was impacted by NHS shortages.