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NHS Forth Valley's board has been assured that the local health service will be able to tackle a backlog of FOI requests to ...

A majority of former Labour supporters who switched to Reform UK last year said more cash for the NHS and lower waiting lists could bring them back to Keir Starmer's party ...

New NHS data for England shows the overall waiting list dropped by nearly 30,000 in May to 7.36 million which is the lowest since March 2023. Medics carried out a record 75,009 planned treatments ...