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In England, 40.9% of patients saw a GP on the same-day they booked their appointment in June 2024, here are stats for each region. (Photo: Google Maps)

The best and worst areas of England for same-day GP appointments

GPs are voting whether or not to go on strike for the first time in 60 years. (Photo: Charles Milligan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

GPs are threatening strike action - what does it mean for you?

A video grab image issued by Dispatches/Channel 4 of a sick patient waiting at an emergency department. PIC: Dispatches/Channel 4/PA Wire

How did we allow our healthcare system to become a lottery? - Daxa Patel

Airedale Hospital

Airedale hospital set to permanently stop delivering premature babies

York hospital

1,100 patients waited more than 12 hours for a hospital bed across trust

Glenn Hoddle prior to the FA Cup Final at Wembley in 2019. Picture:  Mike Egerton/PA.

'Men often look after their cars better than they look after their bodies'

Harrogate District Hospital

Yorkshire hospital says strikes ‘significantly impacting’ cancer treatment

Supplies of a number of ADHD medications have been affected by global shortages.

Supply problems with ADHD medication to last 'until April 2024'

Harriet Moxon with her five-year-old daughter Eve. Photo by Charlotte Ridgeon (Harriet's twin sister).

Mum says she's lucky to be alive after being hit by a car on holiday

A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid and flu jabs to be brought forward over emergence of new variant

Scarborough Hospital moves staff to temporary workspaces due to risk of roof collapsing

Hospital moves staff to temporary workspaces due to risk of roof collapsing

Health Secretary Steve Barclay appearing on the BBC 1 current affairs programme, Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.

New lung cancer screening programme can change thousands of lives: Steve Barclay

More than 35,000 incidents of sexual misconduct or sexual violence were recorded in NHS England in the five years between 2017 and 2022.

35,000+ incidents of sexual violence recorded in NHS England 2017-2022

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'Prevention better than cure' more relevant than ever - The Yorkshire Post says

Ambulance response times and A&E waits are the worst on record, though the number of people on the NHS waiting list has fallen slightly. PIC James Manning/PA Wire

Increasing A&E wait times show the need for action - The YP says

Angela Fletcher of Happy Futures

Past explains why we don’t have services to help vulnerable: Angela Fletcher

Matt Ward is head of xDesign's Leeds office. Pic copyright Phil Tragen 2021

Put Leeds on the map as a first-choice destination for tech jobs - Matt Ward

Is your GP on the list?

The easiest doctors’ surgeries to book an appointment at in Yorkshire

Some 65,400 people every month in England are waiting too long to find out whether they have cancer, according to a new analysis from Cancer Research UK. David Davies/PA Wire

Cancer patients and people being 'failed' by delays in system, charity warns

There are growing concerns about the state of dentistry access across the country.

Government's £50m fund to tackle dental appointment backlog 'virtually unusable'

A further 47 people have died after testing positive for Covid-19 in hospitals in Yorkshire over the Christmas period, NHS England data confirms.

47 Covid deaths across Yorkshire hospitals during Christmas period

A further 47 people have died after testing positive for Covid-19 in hospitals in Yorkshire over the Christmas period.

Rebecca Marano

Palforzia, an oral drug, appears to reduce the risk of harm when a peanut allergy sufferer comes into contact with the foodstuff (image: Shutterstock)

NHS England to offer new treatment to help tackle peanut allergies

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

Sajid Javid is urging people to ‘play their part’ and get their Covid-19 booster jab (Photo: Getty Images)

‘About 10’ people in hospital with Omicron as Sajid Javid makes booster plea

Boris Johnson is to address the nation at 8pm about the booster vaccine programme.

UK Covid alert raised to Level 4 due to rapid increase in Omicron cases

Caroline Nicolls receives an injection of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine administered by nurse Amy Nash, at the Madejski Stadium, Reading (Getty Images)

This is who is eligible for their booster as millions able to book jab from Mond...

Sajid Javid has called on the public to get their booster dose before Christmas (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Top-up’ immunity and get booster jab before Christmas parties, Brits urged

The NHS booking service for booster jabs should be updated by 13 December (Photo: Getty Images)

Bookings for booster jabs to open for all ‘no later than December 13’

The JCVI has not yet advised on whether second jabs will be made available to healthy teenagers (image: Shutterstock)

Children younger than 12 could be given Covid jabs next year

'Record breaking' number of Covid-19 booster jabs given in a week by NHS England...

Newly published data for October shows that the average response time for Yorkshire ambulances dealing with the most urgent Category 1 incidents – defined as life-threatening illnesses or injuries such as a cardiac arrest – was 11 minutes and 4 seconds.

Ambulance wait times for life-threatening injuries among highest in country

E-cigarettes could be given to smokers for free on the NHS as part of new plans to help people quit (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images))

Smokers could be given e-cigarettes for free on the NHS Ethan Shone

Has your GP made the list?

The easiest doctors’ surgeries to book an appointment in Yorkshire in 2021

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

Hospital chiefs meet with families over Covid infection deaths

Booster jab invites will be sent out to more than a million people in England from next week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster jab invites to be sent out to more than a million people in Englan...

Rosie-Mae Walton and Wes Powell with their son Marley as he recovers at Sheffield Children's Hospital

Boy with spinal muscular atrophy receives ‘most expensive drug in the world’

The UK has secured millions of blood tubes following a warning of shortages. The British Medical Association (BMA) had said shortages across hospitals and GP surgeries were "severe" and if the NHS did not reduce usage "even the most clinically important blood tests may be at risk". Picture: Photo credit should read: Simon Dawson/PA Wire

Blood tubes shortage sees GPs across Yorkshire start cancelling non-urgent tests

Sodium chloride is measured to be added to a phial of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine concentrate ready for administration at Guy’s Hospital in central London

The new anti-cholesterol drug being offered on the NHS to prevent heart attacks ...

Has your GP made the list?

The Yorkshire GP surgeries rated in the top 100 in the country by patients

Festival-goers will be able to get a vaccine as easily as a burger or a beer (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs on line-up as ‘vaccine tent’ opens at Reading and Leeds festivals

Life-saving blood test for pregnant women to be available across NHS in England ...

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

Greater numbers of young people in Yorkshire are suffering from eating disorders than ever before, NHS directors say

More young people in Yorkshire treated for eating disorders 'than ever before'

Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu Hospital have launched a drive-through service which provides patients with ambulatory echocardiogram (ECG) tests

Yorkshire hospitals cutting waiting lists with drive-through service

This is the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in Yorkshire

Yorkshire hospitals treating more than 700 Covid-19 patients, say latest figures

Ambulances queue outside a A&E unit earlier this year.

Why ambulance crews and GP surgeries are integral to NHS shake-up – The Yorkshir...

Acklam Road Hospital in Middlesbrough, which is run by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Hospital trust in North Yorkshire put on highest alert level due to pressures

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

Baby Markuss, who became one of the first patients in England to receive the "world's most expensive drug"

Yorkshire mother says her son slept through 'world's most expensive treatment'

The Yorkshire neighbourhoods with the fewest people vaccinated ahead of July 19

The Yorkshire neighbourhoods with the fewest people vaccinated ahead of July 19

Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for the NHS service of commemoration and thanksgiving to mark the 73rd birthday of the NHS at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

July 19 transformed from 'Freedom Day' to 'Judgment Day': The YP says

Is your GP surgery on the list?

These are the best 11 GP surgeries in Yorkshire as voted for by patients

The guidance states that GPs should offer face-to-face appointments if patients want them except in circumstances where there is a “good clinical reason” to do otherwise, such as if a patient has Covid symptoms.

Labour attacks government in row over return of face-to-face GP appointments

Coronavirus vaccine

How each Yorkshire area ranks for giving second Covid vaccine doses to over 50s

When Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the specialist clinics in December, he stressed the “huge impact” long Covid can have on those affected and noted: “We are doing everything we can to support people who are still suffering with effects on their health.” Stock Shutterstock image

Yorkshire long Covid 'postcode lottery' as promised clinic fails to materialise

The British Medical Association’s (BMA) England GP committee passed a motion of no confidence in the leadership of NHS England. Photo credit: PA

Tens of thousands of GPs "badly let down" by NHS England, says Yorkshire doctors

NHS staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow take part in the 'Clap for Carers' in May 2020

Government urged to provide NHS staff with free parking after Covid-19 pandemic

GP leaders are responding to criticism over face-to-face appointments.

GPs are working flat out; don’t blame them over appointments – Yorkshire Post Le...

A woman receives a Covid jab(Photo: John Cairns/University of Oxford)

More than 600,000 vaccine appointments booked in 48-hour period