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Health bosses hope to lure recently retired hospital consultants back to the NHS by offering them the chance to work from home.Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of the NHS, said the plans would help to clear care backlogs and ensure doctors…

Further strikes by NHS doctors and nurses could make it impossible to bring down the number of patients waiting longest for operations, a health chief has warned.Junior doctors in England have taken to picket lines for four days this week,…

Hundreds of patients have suffered life-changing and irreversible sight loss because of a huge backlog in NHS care, a damning investigation reveals.Clinicians have filed 551 reports regarding patient sight loss due to delayed appointments…

The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing…

Now the NHS eyes up robots to help clear Covid backlogs: Automated calls will be used to decide patient priority in the health service in bid to tackle 7m-strong waiting listsNHS is turning to an automated system to clear Covid…

Pharmacists could treat patients with minor illnesses for half the price the NHS is paying GPs to do the same work, a report by MPs reveals.The cross-party group is calling on the Government to 'harness the power' of pharmacies to tackle…

America’s apex visa agency the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has on Tuesday published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust certain immigration and naturalisation benefit request fees. The new fee structure…

Fewer than half of NHS trusts will meet key recovery targets on waiting lists and cancer as services buckle under pressure, bosses warn. The health service is still delivering fewer planned treatments now than before the pandemic and this…

Up until last week, 15-year-old Cassiel Brisebois asked his mother every day if she’d heard anything about when his spinal surgery would be. But he’s luckier than most. Thanks to his mother’s diligent efforts and the arrival of a new…

Patients in England are set to face longer waits for routine check-ups as NHS bosses order hospitals to see those who are yet to have their first appointment, in a fresh bid to hack down backlogs.The plan, dubbed 'Super September' by health…