Junior doctors are today set to stage the longest ever strike in the history of the NHS.
Workers began a six-day walkout at 7am, delaying care for tens of thousands of patients and with experts warning it would be the NHS’s ‘toughest challenge yet’.
As many as 200,000 operations and appointments could be cancelled — bringing the total number since junior doctor industrial action started to more than 1million.
The strike comes at one of the busiest times of the
Wrexham has been named as the busiest rental market of 2023, with landlords in the area typically receiving 56 enquiries per property.
Wrexham – which became a city last year – has recorded eight times more enquiries on average for each available property, according to Rightmove.
Rightmove’s data also revealed Redbridge in London to be the second busiest market with an average of 49 enquiries per available rental property.
Both Tameside and Stockport in Greater Manchester come in third with
Three-quarters of GP surgeries are breaching safety limits, MailOnline analysis suggests.
Health chiefs say patient-doctor ratios should never exceed 1,800.
Yet our investigation laying bare England’s busiest practices shows one is dealing with more than 46,000 patients for every full-time, fully-qualified GP.
This is up to 489 times more than at the country’s quietest surgeries, where as few as 94 patients compete for one doctor, on average.
In total, 4,843 of England’s 6,400-plus GP surgeries (75.8 per cent) exceed the
Up to a third of beds at England’s busiest NHS trusts are occupied by patients who shouldn’t be there, according to a startling MailOnline analysis that lays bare the scale of the country’s ‘devastating’ bed-blocking jam.
More than 13,000 hospital beds across the country, or one in seven, are currently filled with patients declared fit for discharge by doctors.
But rates soar to as high as one in three at the worst-hit hospitals, found in Bristol and Coventry as well
The ailing National Health Service’s worst ever summer crisis was today laid bare by a forensic trust-by-trust breakdown of waiting lists, A&E pressure and bed occupancy by MailOnline.
It reveals that up to six in 10 patients in the queue for routine surgery at England’s busiest trust have been waiting a shocking 18 weeks — and a fifth have been waiting over a year.
Fewer than half of Britons attending A&E departments are seen within four hours at the worst-hit
The number of NHS workers absent because of Covid at London’s busiest hospital trust has more than tripled in a week, official figures show as hospitals draw up battle plans to cope with depleted workforce numbers.
Barts Health Trust saw 338 employees off work on December 19 either because they had caught the virus or were isolating, compared to 91 the previous Sunday.
A similar trend was seen across the capital as a whole, where Covid-related absences jumped from 1,540
