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Junior doctors in England will continue their strike for nine days in December and January because they couldn't agree with the government on a better pay offer. Junior doctors in the UK will go on strike from December 20 to 23, as well as…

Britain's National Health Service is outsourcing an increasing number of eye and hip operations in order to cope with the growing demand for surgeries. The National Joint Registry reports that the NHS has performed more routine surgeries…

Novo Nordisk wants to help more people get Wegovy jabs, including those who are currently unable to access them. Novo Nordisk, a maker of obesity drugs, said that it would offer countries the option to "buy now and pay later" for its…

The demand for private medical insurance has soared. Unprecedented waiting lists in the UK NHS, and a crisis within primary care in the country have pushed it to its highest level in many years. The surge in demand poses problems for both…

The NHS England announced Tuesday that US data analytics company Palantir had won a contract worth £330mn for the development of a new platform to store patient data. NHS England stated that the software called Federated Data Platform…

AstraZeneca will enter the race to develop a weight-loss pill. It is working on a new class of drugs, which it hopes to use in developing nations to combat obesity. The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company announced on Thursday a…

Record numbers of workers are leaving the NHS pension scheme amid the cost of living crisis. More than 75,000 NHS staff pulled out of the scheme, considered one of the most generous in the country, in the last financial year, including…

The waiting lists for routine hospital treatment in England reached a new record. This is the latest blow for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who had hoped that the backlog would be reduced by the upcoming election. According to NHS…