Department of Health and Social Care

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NHS trusts need to start preparing for Hillsborough Law
More than three decades after the Hillsborough disaster, it is still shaping our understanding of accountancy and transparency between individuals and the state...

Sky Sports Golf presenter, Sarah Stirk, who has spoken to The Yorkshire Post about her DCIS diagnosis. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

'I had a mastectomy after mammogram revealed silent early breast cancer'

Library image of the Houses of Parliament. NHS Continuing Healthcare was the subject of a Parliamentary debate earlier this year. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire)

'Care boards are working hard to streamline processes'

The CMA will look at issues such as finding a dentist, understanding prices and knowing where to go for urgent treatment (PA)

Number of dentists offering NHS services across Yorkshire plummets

Police outside the Anlaby Road branch of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.

Victims call Robert Bush jail term ‘atrocious’

Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street entrance.

New £1.25m simulation-based training space could ‘transform surgical practice’

Jonathan Phillips And Jane Mischenko. Pic By Healthwatch

Accountability fears over loss of city’s health watchdog in Leeds

Resident doctors picket Leeds General Infirmary on the first day of their six-day strike on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Picture: Asadour Guzelian.

NHS to be hit with summer of strikes as resident doctors plan walk out

Chris Edwards, the new chief executive of South Yorkshire NHS Integrated Care Board. Picture: SYICB

South Yorkshire NHS: More than 340 jobs cut

Matt Smith (centre) celebrates a goal with Gboly Ariyibi (left) during his time at Leeds United

Baby death ‘tragic reminder’ of the need to protect title of ‘nurse’

An artist’s impression of what the new car park could look like at Airedale Hospital

New Airedale Hospital will not be completed until 2033, NAO finds

Sheffield hospitals cutting NHS waiting lists three times faster than average: 'our plan to rebuild the NHS is working' says Keir Starmer.

NHS trusts benefit from 'Formula One' surgeries to cut waiting lists

Bradford Crown Court

Woman says Covid testing firm offered refund to remove negative post

Tracy Meggitt has ME and has spoken about her experience of living with the condition. Photo: Tracy Meggitt/PA.

'I have ME: Here’s what I wish people knew about living with it'

Mike and Aaron Padgham at the Day of Action event in Westminster.

Social care providers considering handing back contracts over fees

Health Secretary Wes Streeting outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Wes Streeting right to prioritise frontline care as NHS England faces the axe

Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivering a speech where he announced NHS England will be abolished. PIC: Oli Scarff/PA Wire

PM warned NHS reforms will 'divert time and energy' away from care

Darren Parkinson was active before he contracted Covid, in work, on his local town council and a member of a heavy metal band.

'Long Covid has made me exhausted just by living'

Supervised toothbrushing. Credit: PA

Supervised toothbrushing rolled out in deprived parts of Yorkshire

Campaigners take part in a rally for the social care day of action at Parliament Square, Westminster. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Labour has already lost ground on social care, it needs to catch up fast - Ismai...

Mike Padgham, left, with Social Care Minister, Stephen Kinnock, right.

Exclusive Social care providers discuss direct action before protest
Protesting adult social care providers are discussing how to take further action - including not accepting referrals for a day - should today’s demonstration not be listened to, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.
Ralph Blackburn

A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England. PIC: PA/PA Wire

Increasing use of Physician Associates putting lives at risk - Dr Jatinder Hayre

Former NHS high street dentist and petition starter Tom Thayer, alongside patient Anthony Page, whose life was saved by a routine NHS dental check-up which detected his mouth cancer, and BDA Chair Eddie Crouch. Credit: Anna Gordon

British Dental Association says 'clock is ticking' on NHS dentistry

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre) and Health Secretary Wes Streeting (left), with NHS CEO Amanda Pritchard (right). Credit: Leon Neal/PA Wire

Calderdale and Huddersfield trust is 'best of NHS' at cutting waits

Snow covered fields and hills near to Gilling West in North Yorkshire. Picture: Gary Longbottom.

Snow warnings a worry for our most vulnerable - The Yorkshire Post

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) and Health Secretary, Wes Streeting during a visit to a hospital. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

More than a million patients cannot get through to GP

Errors in medical surgery can prove costly for hospital trusts. Picture shows generic hospital surgery. Picture/credit: Pixabay

Piece of a broken drill among items left behind in patients post-op at NHS trust

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre) and Health Secretary Wes Streeting, with chief paramedic at London Ambulance Service Pauline Cranmer, meet NHS staff during a visit in east London. PIC: Jaimi Joy/PA Wire

The NHS can no longer overlook the opportunities presented by technology

Adam Binns

One Health Group reports strong stats in its latest Quality Accounts Report

Addiction treatment centre, Oasis Recovery Bradford

London-based buyout firm Sullivan Street new owners of local private rehab

Health secretary Wes Streeting and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Credit: PA

Bombshell NHS report says health service is in 'critical condition'

Clapping for the NHS may have been 'dangerous' says health ombudsman. (Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Clapping for the NHS may have been 'dangerous' says health ombudsman
Millions took part in Clap for Carers 👏
Sarah McCann

Leeds General Infirmary: Hospital scheme faces delays and rising costs of up to £300mPicture Jonathan Gawthorpe16th April 2020.

Leeds General Infirmary: Hospital scheme faces delays and rising costs

Woman died in Sheffield hospital after near five-hour wait for ambulance ADOBE STOCKCloseup of sign on NHS ambulance vehicle

Woman died in Sheffield hospital after near five-hour wait for ambulance

Anne Shaw.

Yorkshire woman with terminal cancer launches petition for NHS policy change

A new report from MPs has warned that the Department of Health and Social Care is failing to provide the leadership required to deliver a social care sector sufficient to meet the country's future needs. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

There is a ack of leadership when it comes to social care

Ben Houchen at North Tees Hospital.

Government says Ben Houchen 'does not have powers to build hospital'

An artist's impression of what the new hospitals in Leeds will look like

Labour slams 'outrageous' hold-up as new Leeds hospitals are 'ready to go'

Kevin Sinfield won't give up in the fight against MND. (Photo: Simon Marper/PA Wire)

Sinfield repeats call for MND urgency as he prepares for latest epic challenge

A general view of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. PIC: Tony Johnson.

A one size fits all approach to healthcare does not work - The YP says

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

Breaking NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

Breaking 39% of children can't see a dentist - and it's worse for adults

Undated family handout photo issued by Howells of Alex Dews, 13, as a coroner at Alex's inquest has found there were individual failings to follow support processes at Outwood Academy Shafton, in Barnsley attended by trans teenager who died after telling staff he wanted to kill himself but said there was no "systemic failure".Family Handout/PA Wire

Trans teenager told school staff he wanted to kill himself

Sadie Hawkes

Yorkshire woman who miscarried fined by NHS over free prescription

Rowanna Cookson suffers from a rare genetic condition called CTNNB1, one of only 500 in the world with the disorder of her chromosomes.

One-year-old with rare genetic condition waiting five months for NHS operation

A Royal College of Nursing picket line as staff strike outside a hospital.

Negotiations with healthcare unions welcome - The YP says

File photo dated 07/02/23 of Health Secretary Steve Barclay leaves Downing Street, London. Mr Barclay has been urged by NHS chiefs to discuss current pay deals with unions amid fears of an escalation in the nurses' strike. The dispute involving nurses in England could be extended to involve staff from emergency departments, intensive care and cancer wards in the next round of industrial action

Strike chaos set to go on as new health centres announced don't cover Yorkshire

Sir Alan Langlands, former Chief Executive of the NHS and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, is the new chair of Trustees at Yorkshire Cancer Research. photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson in Harrogate. 27 January 2023.

'Unacceptable' funding reductions to NHS, says former boss

York-based Abingdon Health said its trading performance over the financial year ended June 30 2022 had been disappointing.

Jobs have been cut at York-based Abingdon Health after a challenging year

The NHS Healthy Start card allows families to buy food and milk for children. (Photo: AdobeStock)

Parents warned over popular baby food that has ‘more sugar than Coca-Cola’

Triton Construction has secured a critical contract to deliver full below ground infrastructure works for a new state of the art pathology laboratory at St James’s Hospital, Leeds.

Work starts on new pathology laboratory at St James’s Hospital

Calorie counts to feature on menus from today to tackle obesity

It will no longer be possible for the vast majority of people to get free Covid tests in England from this Friday

'Woeful' decision to end free Covid testing puts poorest at risk, MP warns

Picture: Richard Ponter.

Are we living with a virus that changed the world or ignoring it? - Jayne Dowle

Abingdon Health is based in York.

Abingdon says it has not been paid invoices totalling £8.45m by the DHSC

Fiona Babbington and Andy Smith, biomedical scientists who will be based in the new laboratory.

Final approval for new hospital pathology laboratory in Leeds

Picture: PA.

As Ministers are mired in shambles, the NHS suffers - The Yorkshire Post says

The report warns over the impact of proposed changes to legislation underlying the new social care cap.

Changes to social care cap could see poorer people paying longer, report warns

Pregnant women getting Covid-19 vaccine

New campaign calls on pregnant women to get Covid-19 vaccine to reduce risk to b...

These NHS prescription rule changes could leave millions of people worse off

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