Mel Stride, work and pensions secretary, says possibility of prosecution will need to be ‘carefully looked at’ as Commons statement due on compensationGood morning. Today there will be further reaction to the vast and damning report from Sir Brian Langstaff’s infected blood inquiry. Rishi Sunak told MPs yesterday that the government would pay “comprehensive...

I was brought up to think sick people must do dietary penance. Then I tasted the delicious tikka masalas of a London hospitalI was born into a family with little love for food, and therefore scarcely Italian: I grew up with salads and overcooked pasta and two parents who looked at eating as nothing more than a necessary compromise to survive. Only as...

England’s chief medical officer says 19th-century wastewater system ended cholera outbreaks and calls for similar focus nowPublic health must be central to future investment in a new wastewater system to protect people from waterborne diseases, the chief medical officer for England, Prof Chris Whitty, has said.Reducing people’s risk of coming into contact...

Exclusive: 96% of trusts surveyed say health worse in local area, with more than half of those saying decline significantAlmost every NHS trust across England surveyed has seen health worsen in their area as a result of poverty and the cost of living crisis, research has found.The survey, conducted between February and March 2024, spoke to leaders at...

Delays at AJM Healthcare mean Rosy Bremer, 52, has spent hundreds on private hireNHS’s leading wheelchair provider told to improveWhen Rosy Bremer, 52, from Portsmouth, applied for a wheelchair from the NHS she did not expect it to take almost a year to arrive. She has spent hundreds since then hiring a private vehicle while she waits, despite having...

Exclusive: Ombudsman writes to AJM Healthcare after a sharp rise in complaints over delays for wheelchairs and parts‘I am very uncomfortable’: MND patient’s long wait for wheelchairThe NHS’s leading wheelchair provider has been told to urgently improve its complaints system by the health service ombudsman amid concerns disabled people are waiting up...