Yvette Cooper
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No more slogans, no more contradictions, Britain needs a hard-nosed plan on Ukraine - Patrick Mercer
“Despite the huge challenge Ukraine was already facing preparing for winter - Russian jet drones, ballistic missiles, and wholesale economic warfare - the US is looking once again not just to abandon Ukraine, but to actively enter the war on the side of Russia”.
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MP vows to stop ‘distressing’ 700-body mortuary opening in York
A York MP is hoping the government backs her bid to stop a 700-body mortuary opening in the city. Rachael Maskell described the issue as “distressing” and has taken her concerns to the Health Secretary. Last month, Pure Cremation won...
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Corridor care is a problem that is not going away in the NHS - Jayne Dowle
Our local hospital’s A&E department recorded its busiest day ever earlier this month, with a total of 450 people attending, setting a new daily record. And this is only October, the start of autumn, not the depths of winter.
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Woman told she had cancer by data-breaching hospital worker
Pippa Boardman says she lost "dignity and privacy" after she was told by an acquaintance she had cancer.
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'An afterthought': damning Covid-19 report slams Matt Hancock on care home deaths
The care sector was “an afterthought” during the Covid-19 pandemic with failings allowing the virus to “spread like wildfire” and resulting in thousands of deaths despite the claim there was a protective ring around care homes, the inquiry has found.
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Failings allowed Covid 'to spread like wildfire' in care homes, inquiry finds
The sixth report from Covid inquiry criticises the lack of PPE and the way patients were discharged from hospital.
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Covid inquiry: Hancock’s claim of ‘protective ring’ around care homes was ‘cruel lie’
New Covid-19 inquiry report is a ‘devastating account of one of the darkest episodes in our country’s history,’ campaigner for bereaved families says
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Badenoch says Healey’s budget will be worse than Reeves’s if he doesn’t slash spending – UK politics live
Conservative leader to give a speech later, while Treasury sources say Healey has ruled out a rise in capital gains tax
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The NHS is not ready for winter, top A&E doctors warn
Medics warn hospitals face a ‘horrific’ situation as the NHS battles a year-round crisis in emergency care pressures
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Maternity units may have to close to keep women and babies safe, NHS boss warns
Politicians must ‘grasp the nettle’ and make key decisions to keep services safe, NHS Alliance’s acute care director says
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Health Secretary demands sackings over access to tiger victim’s NHS records
NHS staff who inappropriately accessed the medical records of a man who died to a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park must be sacked, the Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has said.
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Health Secretary demands sackings over access to tiger victim’s NHS records
NHS staff who inappropriately accessed the medical records of a man who died to a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park must be sacked, the Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has said.
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NHS staff who inappropriately accessed records of tiger victim should 'be sacked'
“If there are breaches then people actually need to be sacked”
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Health secretary vows to end ‘corridor care’ for children in hospitals
Ms Cooper also said child health needs to be ‘a much greater priority for the NHS’
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NHS staff who wrongly accessed tiger victim’s records should be sacked, says Yvette Cooper
Health secretary says it is ‘total disgrace’ if staff looked up records of William Chapman, who died at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
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NHS data breaches a 'disgrace', says Health Secretary Yvette Cooper
A total of 15 NHS staff are sacked for accessing records of the Nottingham attacks victims.
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Urgent plan needed to end 'corridor care' for children, health secretary says
Yvette Cooper also announces £140m investment in England's urgent care system, ahead of winter.
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Tens of thousands more children waiting for mental health care
Some 584,193 children are waiting for NHS mental health services in Summer – up by 20,000 compared to 2024
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Tens of thousands more children waiting for mental health care
Some 584,193 children are waiting for NHS mental health services in Summer – up by 20,000 compared to 2024
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Budget will have to reflect ‘tough time’, John Healey warns, as growth slows to 0.1%
The public should be prepared for a tough Budget in two weeks’ time which may not provide Government departments with extra cash to cover pay rises for doctors and nurses, John Healey has indicated.
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Bob Geldof, Grayson Perry and Tom Hollander join Independent’s star-studded party
A host of high profile celebrities attended the Independent’s glamorous anniversary event at the British Museum, enjoying a private viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Swimmer Archie Goodburn thanks prime minister as brain cancer review announced
The Scottish athlete, who has inoperable brain tumours, previously made a tearful plea for more investment in brain cancer research on BBC Breakfast.
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Darlington MP says women need more help to tackle violence amid national 'epidemic'
Darlington women and girls need more help to tackle violence, the town's MP has warned, as police figures reveal thousands of sexual offences across the region.
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UK government apologises for past burials of stillborn babies in mass graves
Yvette Cooper acknowledges ‘unthinkable pain’ caused by practice between 1930s and 1980s after campaign by Wirral woman and others
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Screens at schools fuelling child health 'crisis', doctors warn
About one million children now spend nearly every lesson on screens
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Scandal-hit NHS trust has no record of ‘mystery’ surgeon linked to woman's operation
A 'mystery' surgeon operated on a breast cancer patient at a scandal-hit trust and ran a private clinic inside hospital grounds - but bosses have no record of him or the firm.
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Newspaper headlines: 'Airlines sound alarm on costs crisis' and 'King's £1.5m bailout'
The weekend edition of the Financial Times highlights what it is calling a "mounting crisis" for airlines.
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NHS England mental health services review: what has it found and what does it recommend?
Prof Peter Fonagy’s 607-page report is categoric that mental distress has increased substantially and ‘cannot be explained by greater awareness alone’
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Andy Burnham announces £48m partnership in bid to ‘defeat’ dementia
The Prime Minister, whose father Roy died last month after suffering from Alzheimer’s, said he wanted Britain ‘to be the country that makes the breakthrough’
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ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review
The review, which focuses on younger people, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis.
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NHS at risk of ‘system failures’ as demand for ADHD and autism care soars, inquiry finds
England-focused review led by Prof Peter Fonagy returns stark warning and calls for shift to ‘needs-led’ system
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Bereaved Leeds maternity families 'reassured' after Yvette Cooper meeting
The Health Secretary said after the meeting at Headingley Stadium that the families’ stories were “heart-breaking”.
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Mum sent home pregnant after told baby had died takes fight to Health Secretary
Angela Welsh was among members of the Leeds Maternity Families Group who met Yvette Cooper
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Tens of thousands of Brits to get flu jab free on NHS for the first time
Andy Burnham said the initiative would protect ‘some of the most vulnerable people from potentially deadly infections’
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Tens of thousands of homeless people to get flu jab free on NHS for the first time
Andy Burnham said the initiative would protect ‘some of the most vulnerable people from potentially deadly infections’
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Yvette Cooper to create national maternity plan after Lucy Letby scandal
The health secretary is said to be ‘shocked’ that no maternity services plan has been in place since 2012 and hospitals do not track the deaths of babies and children
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Burnham opens door to rejoining EU as he takes aim at Brexit– live updates
PM says he needs to ‘look at the options’, as he opens door to reversing Brexit
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Questions remain over Iran’s link to alleged RAF Fairford bomb plot
Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixed
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If social care is the defining issue of the next election Burnham cannot go early
Making the reform of social care the centrepiece of the next Labour manifesto changes everything, as political editor David Maddox explains
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Labour happy to switch leadership plots for debate over early election with Burnham
As Labour delegates arrive for their conference in Liverpool political editor David Maddox looks at how the party now ‘feels it can win again’ after replacing Starmer with Burnham
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New DNA test cuts brain tumour diagnosis times from ‘weeks to days’
NHS England said that the test will be trialled across specialist centres in England
