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The UK’s top health news on Monday 27 June 2022

Written on 27 June 2022

Latest health news

NHS patients to be offered chance to travel for surgery – BBC News

NHS England ‘set to eliminate two-year waiting lists’ by July – The Guardian

NHS dentist shortage and rising costs are driving people to blu tack fillings and pulling teeth with pliers – iNews

Trouble accessing GPs causes rise in patients turning to pharmacists – The Telegraph

Stroke patients at NHS Tayside become first to be offered pioneering genetic tests – STV News

Systemic anti-cancer therapy treatment centres in Scotland at crisis point – The Lancet Oncology

Workforce

NHS staff should get at least a 4% pay rise, say independent experts – The Guardian

Inclusivity

UK health services failing south Asian people with dementia, says report – The Guardian

Public health

Typhoid could be latest medical risk to UK as strains build tolerance to antibiotics – Daily Record

Health and politics

Top doctors tell government to speed up war against air pollution – The Times

NHS crisis caused by Tory underfunding not Covid, say doctors – The Guardian

Nicola Sturgeon commits to establishing abortion clinic buffer zones – The Times

Public sector workers won’t get ‘excessive’ pay rise in line with inflation, treasury minister warns – iNews

International

‘You get goosebumps from the data’: hopes rise for new malaria vaccine – The Guardian

Other health news

NHS ‘failures’ killed mother after knee surgery – The Sunday Times

RCP launches acute care toolkit for people with a learning disability – Royal College of Physicians of London

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