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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.

NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

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

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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

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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

Health leaders issue warning over Covid booster appointment no-shows

From 7December UK holidaymakers must take a pre-departure Covid test (Photo: Getty Images)

Pre-departure Covid tests to return for UK travellers in rule crackdown

British adults could get fourth Covid jab as deal agreed for 114m extra doses

All care home workers in England are legally required to have been fully vaccinated by 11 November (Photo: Getty Images)

Thousands of care home staff to lose jobs as Covid jab policy kicks in

Molunpiravir has been shown to cut the risk of hospital admission or death by 50% among at-risk adults (Photo: Shutterstock)

Two new Covid antiviral drugs secured to protect most at-risk this winter

Health Secretary Sajid Javid meeting Dr Clementine Olenga-Disashi (left) and Dr Ali al-Bassam, during a visit to the Vale Medical Centre in Forest Hill, south east London, following the announcement of the blueprint for improving access to GP appointments and supporting GPs and their teams.

Listen to GPs over appointments, Sajid Javid – Jayne Dowle

Health secretary Sajid Javid

GPs claim they cannot get a face to face meeting with the health secretary

Mandatory requirements would mean only those who are fully vaccinated against Covid, unless medically exempt, could be deployed to deliver health and care services (Photo: Shutterstock)

Consultation on mandatory Covid vaccination for health and care staff begins

File photo dated 20/10/2020 of a hospital ward (PA/Peter Byrne)

Thousands across Yorkshire waiting more than a year for NHS treatment

Anyone over the age of 18 in the UK can opt in to the antibody testing programme (Photo: Getty Images)

How to get a Covid antibody test as new UK programme launches this week

The government will remove some 57 companies from its list on Monday (23 August) as they no longer exist, or do not provide the relevant tests required for travel (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Cowboy’ Covid travel test providers to be struck off Gov.uk list over misleadin...

A Wakefield woman is campaigning to raise awareness of the debilitating effects of Long Covid, after suffering with the illness for almost 16 months. (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Yorkshire Long Covid sufferer speaks out about 'worst 16 months of my life'

Should the Government be doing more to issue Covid vaccines to teenagers?

Speed up jabs to teenagers before schools reopen – The Yorkshire Post says

The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been given approval for use in children aged 12 to 17 (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna Covid vaccine given green light for 12 to 17 year-olds in UK

Health Secretary Sajid Javid wants all 16 and 17-year-olds in England to be offered their first Covid jab by August 23. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA

New target date set for 16 and 17-year-olds to be offered first Covid jab

Abingdon technicians working on the rapid test foiling machine

Yorkshire Covid test firm lays off 60 staff after Government fails to pay

Covid test should be capped at £40 to save aviation sector, claims Conservative ...

Three-quarters of adults in the UK have received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Three-quarters of adults have received both doses of Covid vaccine - how to book...

A Government source said that Spain "won't be going on the Amber watchlist" (Photo: JAIME REINA/AFP via Getty Images)

'It's not going to happen': Spain avoids being placed on UK Red travel list as B...

12.6 billion PPE items are stored in the UK as central stock, which costs around £6.7 million per week (Photo: Getty Images)

Taxpayers will be paying costs of pandemic for decades - with Covid bill already...

Fully jabbed frontline NHS staff in England will, in “exceptional circumstances”, be permitted to carry on working if they are “pinged” (Getty Images)

Fully jabbed NHS staff could be spared from isolation rules to avoid ‘pingdemic’

A notification issued by the NHS coronavirus contact tracing app - informing a person of the need to self-isolate immediately, due to having been in close contact with someone who has coronavirus (Yui Mok/PA)

Vaccinated NHS staff can skip isolation to work in 'exceptional circumstances'

The Health Secretary urged all those eligible to take up the jab (Photo: LEWIS WHYLD/AFP via Getty Images)

UK to offer 35m people free jabs in biggest ever roll out - how to book yours

Julia Jones, co-founder of the charity John's Campaign

Restrictions continuing in care homes after July 19 is 'national scandal'

Matt Hancock resigned as Health Secretary in a letter to Boris Johnson on Saturday June 26

Health Department to investigate how CCTV footage exposing Hancock was leaked

No “variants of concern” were reported among any passengers returning from amber countries (Photo: Getty Images)

Just 1 in every 200 travellers from amber list countries testing positive for Co...

Ministers are reportedly preparing to announce that care home workers in England will be required to have mandatory Covid vaccines (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid vaccines set to be made a requirement for care home staff in England

Public Health England (PHE) data, published today, shows 640 people in Leeds have tested positive for the variant

No surge testing in Leeds despite spike in Covid-19 Delta variant cases

A coronavirus testing site (Credit: Shutterstock)

Apology after people turned away from Covid-19 surge testing site in Yorkshire

About one million people aged 30 and 31 will get a text message in coming days (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Indian variant hotspots told ‘there are no local lockdowns’ as new guidance issu...

Aerial view of Leeds City Centre with river in view. PHoto: ©Vantage - stock.adobe.com

Exclusive: Government departments commit to new 'ministerial presence' in Leeds

Human rights of 500 people may have been breached over 'do not resuscitate' decisions during pandemic (Photo: Shutterstock)

Human rights of 500 people may have been breached over 'do not resuscitate' deci...

The government have been criticised for releasing guidance for indoor care home visits just four days before they're due to begin. Photo: Adobe

Criticism after care home visits advice shared just days before families reunite

The tests will be available to families and children from 1 March (Photo: Getty Images)

Families with children in school or college to get free Covid tests under reopen...

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. PIC: Getty

Free Covid tests for all pupils' families under plans to reopen schools

More than one million face masks issued to NHS workers may fail to meet safety standards, the Government has warned (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

NHS told to stop using over a million masks issued to workers that ‘may not meet...

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Avacta responds to reports regarding its rapid Covid-19 testing systems

Mencap Chief Executive called the DNACPR notices "unacceptable" (Photo: KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid patients with learning disabilities may have been issued blanket ‘do not r...