NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank. Kristian is an expert on reformation of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), a topic that has seen him subject to backlash and attack. He talks about the special status the NHS has in the hearts…

Patients whose access to health care was disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic are 80 percent more likely to be hospitalised, a study found. The study, published in medical journal BMJ by researchers led by University of Liverpool lecturer Mark Green, said more than a third of people (35 percent) in England were estimated to have experienced…

A 48-hour strike by senior doctors in England will start on Thursday and will see major disruption to NHS services and patient appointments. NHS England has warned that planned industrial action, which follows five days of strikes by junior doctors, could have the most “severe impact.” Senior doctors will not be seeing patients from 7am…

NHS waiting lists in England have climbed to a record high amid continuing industrial action in the health service. According to official data released on Thursday, 7.47 million people were waiting to start routine hospital treatment at the end of May, up from 7.42 million at the end of April. It is the highest number…

The NHS is facing a “huge and growing risk” amid disruptions caused by continuous industrial action, health service bosses have warned. Junior doctors launched a five-day strike on Thursday, in what is being described as the longest walkout of its kind in the NHS’s history amid ongoing protests over pay. Members of the British Medical…

At least one in six people have turned to private health care as patients have had trouble accessing the NHS since 2020, poll results suggest. The most common reason people turned private was to avoid the NHS waiting list, according to the think tank Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), which commissioned the YouGov poll. Among those…

NHS England has said seven new gambling addiction clinics will be opened this summer as addiction referrals hit record highs. The health service has seen a steep rise in demand for support for “gambling-related harms,” a spokeswoman said. New figures published on Sunday reveal that around 1,400 patients were referred for help last year, an…

NHS England is expected to employ over 300,000 extra nurses, doctors, and other health workers under a 15-year plan to tackle staff shortages in the health service. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government is making “the largest single expansion in NHS education and training in its history.” There are currently 112,000 vacancies across the…

Senior doctors in England have voted in favour of taking industrial action, but the threat of more strikes by nurses has ended after a union ballot failed to meet the legal threshold. The British Medical Association (BMA) said on Tuesday that 86 percent of its members backed industrial action on a turnout of 71 percent,…

The NHS is lagging behind many comparable countries in terms of health outcomes, a study has found. The research (pdf), published on Monday by The King’s Fund, found that while the taxpayer-funded healthcare system does well in shielding the ill from the financial impact, it performs worse in a number of important outcomes such as…