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Health leaders have said the major 48-hour nurses strike announced for next month is a 'worrying escalation' that could 'lead to serious damage to the NHS' and 'risk patient safety'.

Gavin and Stacey actress Alison Steadman, 76, has described how “people are dying” as a direct result of our NHS being underfunded.The star, who played beloved character Pam Shipman in the popular BBC sitcom, slammed Tory ministers for their “ridiculous” and “disgraceful” failure to address pay increases for nurses. Following the news that nurses have been on strike due to low pay, health unions have offered to call off walkouts beginning on Thursday.Their condition was that Health Secretary Steve Barclay agree to hold negotiations on pay, but the minister has refused.Sympathetic to the plight of nurses across the country, Alison weighed in on the issue, insisting that our country no longer deserves the name of “Great” Britain due to the “appalling” state of our NHS.The comedic actress, who is a patron of Keep Our NHS Public, said there are not enough doctors, nurses and ambulance workers to allow the system to function as it should.Alison described how the NHS has been “underfunded” and “not respected in the way it should be”, slamming the last 12 years of Tory rule.She said: “We've all had experience of there just not being enough nurses and not being enough ambulances. It is just diabolical that people are being kept in ambulances for 12 hours outside A&E.

Humza Yousaf has written to the UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay asking for more funding to help avert industrial action later this winter.

Liz Truss has appointed her new Cabinet after taking over from Boris Johnson as Prime Minister - and her pals have secured all the top jobs.

New Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her new Cabinet this evening (September 6) after she was appointed as Prime Minister by the Queen at Balmoral earlier on Tuesday. It follows on from her first speech to the nation, in which she said that her government would "transform Britain into an aspiration nation" and that "together we can ride out the storm".

A second “bivalent” coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the UK’s health watchdog ahead of a series of booster jabs this autumn.

An angry member of the public confronted Health Secretary Steve Barclay in the street during a TV appearance, demanding to know why the Government has done 'nothing' about lengthy waits for ambulances. The cabinet minister was speaking to media outside Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London when the woman interrupted him.

Coronavirus infection rates have fallen in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. But the decline in the virus comes as the vaccine efforts ramp up ahead of the autumn months, with one vaccine urging people to get jabbed and 'not worry what type of Covid vaccine they're getting'.

The UK has just seen it's fifth wave of Covid-19, but health experts are concerned that if proper measures are not taken, the virus could become rampant yet again this autumn.

Millions of people in the UK will receive a Covid booster jab this autumn as the NHS rolls out the next stage of its vaccination programme. All adults over 50, NHS staff and people who are clinically vulnerable are among those eligible for the coronavirus booster.

The parents of Archie Battersbee have filed an application to the Supreme Court in a bid to extend his life-sustaining treatment to allow time for a United Nations committee to consider the 12-year-old’s case.

Archie Battersbee is set to have his life support removed after his family lost their final bid to keep him alive today.

People with lung cancer symptoms are being encouraged to go to GP checks to catch the disease sooner.

Millions of people will be offered a Covid vaccine as part of the autumn booster programme, following recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

It was all change on Good Morning Britain as well as in government as the fallout from Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak's departure from the cabinet began. Susanna Reid and Ed Balls were back at the helm of the ITV news programme on Wednesday (July 6).

Boris Johnson is facing increasing pressure to resign as Prime Minister after Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid sensationally quit the government last night.

Ed Balls and Susanna Reid quickly stopped busting some moves live on Good Morning Britain when they realised exactly what the song was saying. The pair were back fronting the ITV news programme on Wednesday (July 6) but there was a bit of a change.

Boris Johnson has announced his replacements for Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid after they sensationally quit Cabinet earlier tonight.

A Tory minister said he is "too busy" to speak on Good Morning Britain today - a day after Sue Gray's report into lockdown breaking parties was published.

Eight new cities will be created in the UK as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Angela Rayner has hit out at the Prime Minister's new staffing appointments - describing the move as 'frantically rearranging deckchairs'.